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This weekend's plans were slightly derailed by one of the costermongers* having Gravensteins today. I grew up with Gravenstein apples, but they have a short harvest window and they don't travel - so they are ever more vanishingly local. In any case, I have a batch of apple butter burbling away right now.

Other plans:

• Bills (sigh)
• Pretzel buns for tonight's house-cured pastrami sandwich dinner
• Some exchequer work I volunteered for (looking at war financial policies)
• Making food (tomorrow) for the homeowners' meeting: ricotta dumplings, and a chocolate icebox cake for dessert.

* I love being able to use this word absolutely correctly.