Apricot crumble, baked pears, pork with apples: Nigel Slater's autumn fruit recipes

Make the most of the season's sweet stuff There are punnets of blackberries and trays of green and purple figs. Late varieties of raspberries and the odd box of damsons. Even now, in the depths of autumn there are still a few plums and some fine, diminutive apricots from Turkey, more sweet and honeyed than the large French fruits we had in the summer. The market tables are groaning under the weight of pears and apples, and I have been coming home with bags of howgate wonders for baking, russets ...