Apple Cream Made with ‘Codlin’ Apples

Posted on Sep 21, 2016 in News, Recipes

It’s apple season and we have five fine varieties of northern apples for sale in the shop, both cookers and eaters. Read more about their special qualities here.

Here’s a recipe for one of the varieties of cooking apple that we have for sale: EMNETH EARLY (£1.50/kg)

Emneth Early Apple

the best of the early codlins E.A. Bunyard, A Handbook of Fruits, 1920.

A codlin apple is one that stews down – or rather rises, souffle-like – to a beautiful snow-white purée of excellent flavour with little or no sugar.

Apple Cream

Ingredients
  • 4 medium apples, peeled, cored and sliced
  • 0-2 tbsp sugar to taste
  • half tsp ground ginger
  • splash of sherry or white wine to taste
  • 150ml (5fl.oz) double cream
  • half tsp ground nutmeg or mace

Method
  1. Bring the apples, with sugar, ginger and a little sherry or white wine, to the a boil
  2. Simmer until soft and a purée
  3. Chill
  4. Meanwhile. boil the cream with nutmeg or mace and let cool
  5. Fold the spiced cream into the apple purée
  6. Adjust the seasoning with a little sugar if necessary

Eat with homemade shortbread (butter, sugar, flour, semolina, all available in our shop), or Anna’s Ginger Thins or Langue de Chats (both also available in our shop).

Illustration and recipe adapted from The Northern Pomona: Apples for Cool Climates