Fellow actors consume some dates and cooking apples (8)
I believe the answer is:
costards
'cooking apples' is the definition.
'costards' can be an answer for 'apples' (I've seen this before). I am not certain of the 'cooking' bit.
'fellow actors consume some dates' is the wordplay.
'fellow actors' becomes 'costars' (co-star is a kind of actor. I am not sure about the 'fellow' bit.).
'consume' indicates putting letters inside.
'some' says to take the initial letters.
The first letter of 'dates' is 'd'.
'costars' going around 'd' is 'COSTARDS'.
'and' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for costards that I've seen is " apples".)