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Development of lodge cuisine involves historic apple (6,9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

golden delicious

'apple' is the definition.
(Golden Delicious is an example)

'development of lodge cuisine involves historic' is the wordplay.
'development of' is an anagram indicator (I've seen 'development' mean this).
'involves' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'historic' becomes 'old'.
'lodge'+'cuisine'='lodgecuisine'
'lodgecuisine' with letters rearranged gives 'gendelicious'.
'gendelicious' going around 'old' is 'GOLDEN DELICIOUS'.

(Another definition for golden delicious that I've seen is " Type of apple".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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