A variety of yellowish green cooking apple known since the late 18th Century and which cooks to a sharp purée. It is first recorded as "King apple" but was renamed when it was sent by a Mr Warner to Thomas Rivers. It received the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit in 1993. This late-season variety is harvested from late September in South-East England and is at is best from then until December.
The warty or yellow crab is a small furry crab with very good sweet flavour used in soups.
The warty Venus clam is a bivalve mollusc with two equally sized valves and can grow up to 7 cm (3”) in length. Like all the Venus shells it has a white, porcelain-like inner surface, but this one has a beige to brown outer colour and a series of 20 or more concentric ridges and with wart-like spines on the outside near the anterior and posterior margins. The ridges look almost like terracing. The warty Venus clam burrows in sand or gravel and they are found from the intertidal down to around 100m (just over 100 yds) from the Mediterranea around the Iberian Peninsula and up into the English Channel and Irish Sea. They feed by filtering phytoplankton from the water. As with other clams, these should be well spaked in running water for a couple of hours to remove any sand.before consuming to clean them.
If a cheese is described as having a washed rind, this means that, during curing, the rind has been brushed with brine, beer, wine or brandy.
The original navel orange, from which most others are derived.
