Do you have a favourite apple cake? let me know in the comments! One year I’m all about tiny cakes, which you can hold in one hand.Īt the moment, and in the last 4 years, my ideal comfort food is a warm slice of olive oil apple cake, fragrant with lemon zest, soft and bursting with melt-in-your-mouth apples. One year my perfect apple cake is embodied by an apple pie with a crisp shell covered with grains of sugar and a melting filling, the next year I’ll vow eternal love to a cinnamon pound cake enriched by cubes of apples and a good dose of warming spices. Have I reached perfection? Nope, and I’m happy to keep on searching and experimenting. Each season brings new ideas, scents and textures. The quest for the perfect apple cake is like searching for the Holy Grail: infinite, legendary, epic, exciting. Simple and domestic, romantic enough, juicy, fragrant, accessible, sensual, everyday food: apples know how to tell stories that fascinate generations of people since immemorial time. (By the way, did you know that Ruth Reichl has a newsletter here on Substack? She has a thread on comfort food, too.) I’m borrowing Ruth Reich’s memoir title to introduce the theme of today’s newsletter: comfort and apples.
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