A PINCH OF ... 

Waldorf Salad with just three ingredients is a classic and delicious appetiser created in 1893 at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel

A showstopper dessert made with puff pastry and sliced apples.

A crisp puff pastry tart with mincemeat and apples. The perfect Christmas dessert.

A colourful and tasty chutney using tomatoes and peppers from your summer crop and the first of the apples from your tree.

This combination of soft caramelised apples and puff pastry is a French classic which is the ultimate in upside-down desserts

A simple tray bake using autumn fruits and a crunchy sugary topping to create a warming pudding.

There is a welcoming smell of apples and cinnamon in the house whenever I make this traditional apple crumble.

A traditional English pudding made from Bramley apples topped with a Victoria sponge cake mixture - light and tasty and so easy to make.

A very easy-to-make homemade mint jelly with no straining through muslin required! Perfect for your Sunday roast.

My grandmother lived in Dorset after the war. Apples were, and still are, abundant in the autumn and this was a quick and easy way to use...

A timeless apple chutney from my grandmother's recipe book. Perfect for using up the windfalls from the garden.