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Nothing Wasted

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There's a little cyanide in an apple pip. Not much. But a thrifty cook saves everything — and saves it for years.

We're down in the kitchen garden this week, at a wartime farm where the finest baker in the district nursed her tyrant of a father on his beloved almond treats, all through a winter when there wasn't a real almond to be had in England. Cora and August follow the smell of bitter…