Flavourful fruit for creative cooks

Scour any catalogue and you will see descriptions of varieties which wax lyrical about the flavour – the decadent pleasure of eating strawberries warmed by the morning sun, picking nectar-sweet gages from the tree and eating them before you’ve even got back to the kitchen door. This is undoubtedly a major part of why we grow our own fruit, but there is a whole new world of tastes and textures available to the home cook who grows their own fruit, instead of relying on the choice from the supermarkets.

There are several benefits from using fruit for cooking rather than just fresh. The obvious one is that it increases storage time. While some apples will happily store