Nigel Slater's recipes for apple and blackberry pie, butternut tart and peaches with blackcurrant sauce

Autumn's orange and purple plenty fills pies, tops tarts and sings roasted to go in main dishes The market stalls are a tapestry of ochre and dark green. There are fat pumpkins and bunches of cavolo nero; early parsnips and chard entwined with late peaches and blackberries. There are apples for a pie, the first local pears (conference, as crisp as a sheet ice) hazelnuts and the first chestnuts. Food shopping doesn't get better than this. The first pumpkins are startling, their presence a sudden ...