Brother Michael’s Apple Vesuvius (Pluscarden Abbey)

‘This recipe is fabulous, though I say it myself ... I googled the name and it doesn’t exist. Bingo!’

Brother Micheal

The idea of Brother Michael sitting in his thirteenth-century surroundings googling the name of his own explosive recipe makes me smile. He is a modern monk in an abbey that was originally founded in 1230 by King Alexander II for monks from Burgundy, but which fell into ruin after the Scott