by Amy Elysia October 29, 2024
| This warm and comforting recipe makes the perfect autumn dessert or afternoon treat. Made with our wholemeal red millet flour for a complex nutty flavour. |
Living in the West Country, once autumn comes everything in the kitchen is about apples! Amy made this cake as a delicious dessert after a long day of apple pressing. Every year she takes all the apples from her garden (and a few hedgerows) and has them pressed at a nearby orchard. She has some of the juice bottles and pasteurized for drinking throughout the year and some is kept for making apple cider vinegar. But one basket of apples is always kept back from making desserts, cakes and crumbles.
If you don't have an apple tree in your garden, keep an eye out on country walks for apples in the hedgerows or sometimes people leave boxes outside their houses if they have too many.
Be sure to serve this one with a warm glass of apple juice or cider.
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