Apple Cheese

In season 3, calamity occurs in the kitchen when the oven breaks down midway through the day of the showdown between the two matriarchs of Downton Abbey: Robert’s mother, Violet, and Cora’s mother, Martha. Coal-fired ovens were notorious for their unpredictability, especially when the wind was blowing in the wrong direction, so the problem would have been one that many cooks and their employers faced. Happily for the hungry