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I didn’t pick my moment well when I asked\u00a0Hotel Falkenstein<\/a> for their Apple Strudel recipe. \u00a0 It was a warm sunny lunchtime, and the restaurant was packed with guests on their last open day of the year. \u00a0As they were rushed off their feet, I didn’t want to ask a second time. \u00a0 Maybe it’s a secret anyway, it probably should be…<\/p>\n

We have a particularly generous apple tree in the corner of our garden. \u00a0If the blossom is anything to go by, we can always tell that we are in for a bumper crop, and this year was no exception.<\/p>\n

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I do feel bad that we don’t make the best of them, and had ambitious plans for taking our crop to the local farm to be pressed for juice as is quite typical in these parts. \u00a0But of course, time waits for no-one, and apart from the odd crumble<\/a>\u00a0the birds and wasps have probably had the best of them this year. \u00a0 Up until now…<\/p>\n

We don’t have much time when I get back from work, but as the weather’s most definitely on the change (winter tyres are on already!) we like to spend as much time as we can out in the sunshine whilst it’s still here.<\/p>\n

I had thought Small Boy was busy being Thomas M\u00fcller\u00a0(much to his father’s disappointment – he doesn’t have another family member to support his beloved Southampton FC – his offspring are very much FC Bayern fans!) but he suddenly appeared from the garden shed with something I didn’t even know we had – an apple picker – suggesting that if we got the last of the apples from the top of the tree, we (or rather I!) could make that strudel that we had recently enjoyed.<\/p>\n

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At the insistence of a small boy we lopped the remaining apples of the top of the tree. Never look up when you do this though, an apple in the face smarts a bit…<\/a><\/p>\n

A photo posted by Emma (@bavariansojourn)\u00a0on