tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542365.post2000036497129725435..comments2023-12-24T18:38:29.947-08:00Comments on Writing Down the Words: Apple TimePaulinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555472024981357622noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542365.post-18971773532635858912017-11-12T13:37:53.180-08:002017-11-12T13:37:53.180-08:00Oh the memories you stirred! My mother had a tree ...Oh the memories you stirred! My mother had a tree of "cooking apples" which were small and tart. She made this wonderful apple cake and also pies and a peculiar but wonderful apple creation called bastable cake cooked in cast-iron on an open fire. She drowned these creations in castor sugar and lashings of whipped cream. I can still smell and taste them now.<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542365.post-27104127245867766362017-11-04T04:03:09.367-07:002017-11-04T04:03:09.367-07:00I like to cook like my mother too although she nev...I like to cook like my mother too although she never put enough sugar in for my liking! My mother spent a lot of her youth during the war in Holland and they were so short of food that she learned to eat whatever came. Consequently she never threw anything away during her married years and I grew up believing it was normal to eat e.g. a whole cauliflower and nothing else for dinner!<br />I loved Stella Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06699491230987143490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542365.post-35538668652001457622017-11-03T17:30:49.500-07:002017-11-03T17:30:49.500-07:00It looks beautiful and I can almost smell it.I hav...It looks beautiful and I can almost smell it.I have went through almost a bushel of apples and need to get some more.The turnovers sound good, my mother made fried pies also.Out on the prairiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09548162534362532705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542365.post-24806489133489202692017-11-02T17:58:44.281-07:002017-11-02T17:58:44.281-07:00All those memories!All those memories!The Furry Gnomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02485265576983125216noreply@blogger.com