We got the best produce at a local farmers market! All local and all soooo fresh! Brussel Sprouts still on the stalk, fresh parsnips, spring greens or as us Americans like to call them, collards and some of England's finest, Bramley cooking apples! We couldn't wait to get home to get it all cooked up!
My girls picking the brussels sprouts off!
Look at this, a complete local meal! Local organic pork chops, local potatoes and our local brussel sprouts!
And on to the Bramley Apples. They use these for making apple pies, apple sauce, crumbles but most importantly, the English make Mince Meat with Bramley apples. It has lot's of apples and raisins and raisin type things and then you coat it in a shredded suet which is a lard, that is used to preserve it. Sounds odd, I know!
Then you put it in a jar and let it set. Most people want it to set for at least 3-4 weeks and then make it into mince meat pies. You can keep it, well, forever! Apparently it just gets better over time!
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