Golden apple gifts
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Les Jardins d'ici
The wonders of growing, eating and sharing fruit
I ran a compote-making workshop at the London Orchard Project’s Apple Festival in October. I bought a Christmas gift from them to create a legacy for London.
There are still apples on the tree nearby. People can see it above their heads on the street everyday, including children whose school entrance is twenty meters away.
Adding enough thickening agent to a jam is a quick way of making the delicious sweets that we call in France ‘pâtes de fruits’. Probably not a recipe for complete beginners, but still not very difficult.
Using windfalls at the end of the harvesting season is like desperately trying to save what shouldn’t have been lost in the first place.
I have just made a kilo of apple puree to start the process I engaged on streetlife.com this morning to save apples in the Southfields area and hopefully beyond.
Got there in the end. Instead of making a fully home-made tart I went to buy an uncooked pastry at the local supermarket, for this recipe to appeal to busy households. Quince glazing optional, can be replaced with something else.
‘Tesco estimated that, across the UK food industry, 40% of apples were wasted’ (BBC News, 21 Oct.). Here is what I do with damaged apples. Surely there are large scale solutions!
We have just passed the middle of the September/October harvesting season and there are many trees loaded with fruit around. The pictures below were taken on 1st October from a single spot in Southfields tube station. Continue reading 
A guide to making and eating fruit compote and puree is available here.
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