Apple Crackle Pudding doesn’t exactly have the crack that I was expecting from the name (nor does it have any snap or pop). It does, however, have more bite than you can expect from many apple-based Yorkshire dishes as there’s no stewing involved, which gives it a great texture. Apples are, of course, in season…
Toffee Apples complete our trinity of essential Bonfire Night foods. According to Dorothy Hartley in Food in England, toffee apples would have been (understandably) expensive before we started importing large quantities of plantation sugar. “Probably small windfall apples dipped in a toffee of honey and beeswax bedabbled the fairs of St. Batholomew even before sugar, as we…
I like having a chutney in Yorkshire Grub’s first round of recipes because it shows that, even though this site is about food that your great grandma would recognise as historically English, we’ve been taking on influences from other cultures for yonks. Chutney has its origins in India and the word is actually an anglicisation…
