Mrs Sheppy adds that no cider apple would be good for eating or cooking.

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The cooking is hearty fare: roast Patagonian lamb that slides off the bone, homemade pumpkin tart followed by apple pie.

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Many kitchenware and grilling stores carry cooking planks in a variety of woods cedar, alder, maple, hickory, oak, mesquite and apple.

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