In the next of the Woman's Hour series of edible Christmas gifts, Sybil Kapoor has suggested a Medieval sweet that is the perfect solution for anyone with a surplus of fruit left over from harvest.
Seventeenth and eighteenth century cookbooks were full of clever ideas of how to preserve autumn's bounty over any long cold and frosty winters.
One of their favourite ways of keeping apples was to turn it into something called 'apple cheese'. Sybil explained exactly what that was to Anna McNamee. Read the recipe. Sybil Kapoor is author of Simply British (Penguin Books, ISBN: 0140273190, £7.99)