Dan, if you were you a pip, you could do no better than be one from an apple tree which I have in may garden. It's an old, old, Sussex variety called a "Crawley Beauty", and it fruits every two years. As I write this, there's a bumper harvest ripening on the tree at the moment.

It makes for a nice, sharp eater or a juice, sweet cooker. Take your pick - or even pip.

Pies, crumbles, apple cake, crepes with stewed apple and maple syrup - and Gladys K in the background. Mmm...