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Apple Blossom
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Apple Blossom (Photo taken at the Botanical Gardens Auckland)
Botanical origins
The wild ancestor of Malus domestica is Malus sieversii (which has no common name), a tree still found wild in the mountains of central Asia in southern Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Xinjiang Province, China. M. sieversii resists many diseases and pests that affect domestic apples, and research with it to develop new disease-resistant apples is continuing.
Other species that were previously thought to have made contributions to the genome of the domestic apples are Malus baccata and Malus sylvestris, but there is no hard evidence for this in older apple cultivars. These and other Malus species have been used in some recent breeding programmes to develop apples suitable for growing in climates unsuitable for M. domestica, mainly for increased cold tolerance.
Apples have been a very important food in all cooler climates, and is probably the earliest tree to be cultivated. To a greater degree than other tree fruit, except possibly citrus, apples store for months while still retaining much of their nutritive value. Winter apples, picked in late autumn and stored just above freezing, have been an important food in Asia and Europe for millennia, and the United States since the arrival of Europeans.
The above obtained from http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Apple#Botanical_origins
Individual Apple Crumbles Recipe
Ingredients:
2 sheets frozen flaky puff pastry, thawed
1 1/2 cups thickly stewed apple (microwaved without extra water, or canned apple pie filling)
1/4 cup Chelsea soft brown sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon
Crumble:
50g butter
1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup Chelsea soft brown sugar
1 tbsp rolled oats
Method: (makes 6)
Cut pastry into squares and use to line a standard non-stick muffin tin, the corners of the pastry sticking above the rim. Mix apple, cinnamon and brown sugar together and spoon into pastry. Blend or rub crumble ingredients together to form a coarse, crumbly mixture. Sprinkle over apple mix and bake in a preheated 180°C oven for around 20 minutes, until the pastry is puffed and crisp and the topping golden. Remove pies from tin while still warm and dust with Chelsea icing sugar. Serve with ice cream.
Enjoy!
IMAGE INFORMATION
Camera: Canon 10D
Time of day: 5:552p a.m.
Date: 7th November 2005
Weather conditions: Clear
Lens: Tamron 28-300mm XR
Filter: Hoya 62mm UV
Shutter Speed: 1/125
F-Stop: F/4.5
Focal Length: 92mm
ISO: 100
Original file type: Digital Raw |
Janice, red45, wallhalla15, livios, scottevers7, glazzaro, marhowie, Toni, cecilia has marked this note useful
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- Janice
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(18648) - [2005-11-07 3:46]
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Beautiful Pam. So you went to the Botanical Gardens today. I love these fruit tree blossoms and this is so pretty and so sharp. Excellent colours too. Well shown, and thank you for the recipe too. Might just give it a try one day...
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- red45
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- [2005-11-07 3:52]
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Amazing Pam! Now you and Janice will be sending spring flowers to bright our dark times! Thank you for this one. Very colorfull and delicate.
BTW - another cook on TN???
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- honza
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(4191) - [2005-11-07 6:25]
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Unusual view of spring flower for me in this time. Very nice composition, sharpness and colors. TFS
Pam, this is an excellent Picture. Great colours, excellent sharpness, a very nice composition. Well done.
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- livios
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- [2005-11-07 7:30]
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Pam, this is a delicate shot indeed.
Great mood, colors, bg and sharpness.
Very nice note too.
Hi Pam,
These delicate apple flowers are so beautiful and elegant. I love the soft colours against the greens. The composition is superb with the cluster of flowers hanging to the left of the photo. I like it a lot. Well done!
Claudia
Hi Pam.
A beautiful shot. The composition and framing our perfect. Nice soft colors in this light. The detail is excellent witha nif fall off in the DOF. Well done!
Scott
Nice detail and depth, well presented.
Greg
Hi Pam,
Sorry for rushed visit, very busy night.
A well deserved big green smile, thanks for posting.
Have a good week.
This soft light works perfectly in this one Pam. The colors are very subtle and natural. I really like it. Thank You.
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- Toni
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- [2005-11-07 16:57]
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Hi Pam
This would look good as a card. Excellent details. Lovely soft colours.
Regards Toni
The whole thing works for me, I like the compositon and colours .
Nice work...
Cesie
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