The walnut is an oval nut with a pale tan, slightly warty shell of two halves. Inside there are two halves of the nut looking almost like a small pair of lungs, or a halved brain. In many languages the word for walnut is the default word for nut, so it’s worth checking what you are getting.
A variety of red flushed blushed cooking apple raised by John Barnard of Waltham Abbey in Essex some time around 1810 from a Golden Noble seedling. This mid-season variety cooks to a purée and is harvested from early September in South-East England and is at its best from September to October.
A pie made at the Connaught, during World War II, for Lord Walton. There are different versions but it was a pie made with mixed vegetables, diced and mixed with a sauce. Because this was during food shortages, the sauce might or might not contain milk or cheese, and the topping might be pastry but, if there was a scarcity of fats, was more likely to be mashed potato.
A variety of sweet eating apple raised by a tailor called Wanstall in Sittingbourne in Kent in the 1800s. This late-season variety is harvested from late September in South-East England and is at is best from October to December.
A name for Blenheim Orange, a large, crisp, dry, aromatic, yellowish-fleshed, pippin apple with a sweet, slightly tart flavour and dull, yellow skin washed and speckled with orange-red. It is a good-looking eating apple which cooks well and is preferred in tarte tatin as it is soft-textured but does not lose its shape. It was discovered growing along the wall that was the boundary of the grounds of Blenheim Palace in Woodstock in Oxfordshire around 1740 by Kempster. It was originally named Kempster's Pippin but the name was changed with the approval of the Duke of Marlborough around 1904. It was awarded the Banksian Medal of the London Horticultural Society in 1822. In the 1920s it became widespread throughout Europe and the United States. In France it is known as Bénédictin. A traditional Christmas, mid- to late-season, apple which is harvested from late September to early October in South-East England, is stored and is at its best between October and December. In the United States it is harvested from October to December.
