Dessert apples

[littlemark]

Our dessert apple tree is an (unknown) early variety, and just about ready to start dropping fruit all over the place. Does anyone have a chutney/pickle recipe which uses dessert not cooking apples, all the recipes I've found in several books use cookers. We have loads of jam so don't fancy making anything sweet.

Mark

[Hilary B]

While the chutney recipes state 'cooking apples' most of them will work with eaters (you just get a slightly sweeter chutney). Last night the Hairy Bakers did an onion soup which included dessert apples, to enjoy with the cheese-and-ale bread.