Generous apple brioche

A delicious brioche sweet bread, ideal fruity treat for the season.

It’s garnished with one of these superb akibae apples.

To get a delicious fluffy dough, the main ingredient is time.
One day, you mix yeast, sugar, water and flour to make a sponge. The next day, you make a dough. Two days later you bake it. The net day you enjoy the delight.
300 g bread flour
1/2 cup of yeast “sponge”.
40 g sugar
80 g butter
1 egg + 1 white
about a cup of milk

It’s filled with cubes of apple, many. Also, cocoa chips, Grand-Marnier soaked raisins, cinnamon.

On top, sliced almonds, sugar, cinnamon.

Really, be patient, as it gets so much better a whole day after baking.

Tarte croustillante au boudin blanc

Ideal season for a sausage apple pie. Yes, really and that’s a delicious delicate and light dish.
Tarte croustillante au boudin blanc (crispy pie with “white pudding” sausage).

Let’s turn the wheel of 4 apples :
early fuji (早生ふじ- ほのか)
jonagold,
akibae,
toki…

Fallen apple leaves on Autumn pie leaves…

Let’s make a boudin blanc (white pudding sausage).

It’s flavored with :

awabitake (abalone mushroom)

The sausage slices turned into flowers, painted gold (egg yolk).

Baked.

New and fresh Japanese apples

Nature’s presents. Delicious Autumn fruits and other produce are overflowing. Well, they are natural to a point. You wouldn’t be impressed by wild apples that are randomly sweet, irregular and tiny like walnuts. The big juicy pretty fruits are the results of centuries of cultivations, grafts, crossings. Japan is very recent in the game as apple cultivation started seriously only from the 1920’s with a few imported trees. But they have really done great in the last decades, particularly for table apple (to eat raw, not cooking apples). These two have been created in the 1990’s.

This apple is　秋映 akibae (reflection of Autumn) from Nagano. The skin is incredibly dark red. It’s quite unusual and a bit pricey.

These are 黄王 kiou (yellow king). They are more common.

Maybe there are puns included in the names as kiou is homonym with “chess king” and akibae can mean phonetically “in direction of Akihabara”, the computer/electronic shop town inside Tokyo.　So the red ones are people that play chess, and the yellow ones for nerds ?