An early-season, pale yellow all-purpose apple, flushed blushed and striped with red, with tender crumbly, creamy flesh. It is delicious to eat raw or cooked. It was raised by James Grieve in Edinburgh and introduced by Dickson's, the nursery where he was manager, winning the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit in 1897 and the Royal Horticultural Society First Class Certificate in 1906. Unpopular with supermarket buyers because it bruises easily but it will actually keep until Christmas. This early-season variety is harvested from early to mid-September in South-East England. It retains its shape on cooking, making it good for pies and tarts.
A pie made with layers of anchovies, sliced potatoes and yellow onions in a cream sauce. Jansson is thought to have been a man who believed in abstinence but who had a terrible weakness - this dish/
January is the first month of the year in the western calendar and a cold winter month in the northern hemisphere.
An old French variety of cabbage, good for the winter and very sweet.
The Japanese artichoke or crone is an unusual small tuberous vegetable, actually a rhizome with a flavour similar to Jerusalem artichoke and a texture like water chestnuts. Hedge nettle. Stachys. The neutral flavor renders the easy-to-grow root particularly suitable for mixing with legumes. Run under a strong stream of water to clean, parboil briefly and toss in salads or with other prepared vegetables and seasonings. Easy to establish in the garden and difficult to weed out once planted.
Chinese bellfower. A plant of the Campanula family indigenous to South East Asia. In Korea, where the root is often used in salads, gimchi and the like, it is more commonly found with white bells than with the blue bells found elsewhere.
