Black caps – simply the best baked apple pudding

Try this original recipe from the 18th century, but be careful – readers of the Yorkshire Evening Post were warned in 1896 that this new toffee apple craze among the young was dangerousI have the best memory of eating this simple pudding on a rather chilly day in May in an old Cumbrian longhouse owned by food historian Ivan Day. The apples were baked in an authentic wood-fired stove and filled the house with that unmistakably comforting scent apples give to a breeze in the air. They came o