Apple Day celebrated in style at Quicke's Cheeses

A celebration of Apple Day at the home of Quicke's Traditional cheese near Crediton was blessed with some sunny Autumnal weather. The sunshine bought out the crowds with visitors from all over Devon and beyond.

 

Many local food and drink producers were present and offering tastings and sales of some great local produce. Pebblebed Wines from Topsham were offering tastes of their beautiful dry but fruity white and rose wines, and Kennford Farm shop was selling its lovely meat products. Sandford Orchards tempted us with warming mulled cider using Barny Butterfield's secret recipe. The mulled cider went down very well with The Devon Chef's (me!) apple pancakes, using apples from my own garden.

 

Large slabs of Quicke's various cheeses were on display with smaller slabs for sale. Local apples were being pressed during the day providing fresh apple juice to many of the visitors and a huge variety of apples both familiar and unusual were available for identification.

 

The Tender Oaks bought the sounds of Devon Cajun music to Newton St Cyres, with the entirely natural accompaniment of Mary Quicke's own cows and calves in the next door field.

 

This was the first Apple Day event at Quicke's and given its success looks like being repeated in future years.

 

Meanwhile Quicke's cheddar was used in a recipe on the Channel 4 programme Sunday Brunch today.   Keep in touch with other events and news from Quicke's via their website http://www.quickes.co.uk/index.php?pg=home