Whilst an autumnal sun shone down on Drove Orchards, barely nine miles away at Creake Abbey the sky was shrouded by a perpetual raincloud. Despite heavy rainbursts the market did go on, only dissuading those marketgoers of the fair-weather variety. Drove apples were ever popular, ever fought over, even moreso… was it the dewlike tint of raindrops on apples, a spark of poetry to the marketgoers eyes? Perhaps. The just-picked Elstar were a raved-about favourite today, and I call upon anyone passing by the orchards in the next few days to plunge their teeth into this pale yellow unassuming apple, with the juiciness of a Jona Red and the full flavour of a Cox Orange Pippin, this Twentieth Century Dutch cross is not one to miss!
Otherwise the stall was a cornucopia of all things appley – apple and almond cake, apple bread (lush), toffee apples, mulled apple juice as well as the usual produce – not to mention an overbrimming basket of our exotically scented Quinces, provoking many remarks.
Forgot the camera. But you can find us next at Creake Market on 4th December, the very same weekend as the Deepdale Christmas Fayre – with Santa-esque efficiency we shall be attending both.
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