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Herefordshire Pearmain
Type: Cooking
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, tender, crisp and juicy. Sweet with a good balance of briskness. Keeps for two months in cold storage.
Synonyms: English Winter Pearmain, Germaine, Great Pearmain, Old English Pearmain, Royal ...
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Updated: 3 days ago
Dumelow's Seedling
Type: Culinary, Sauce
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm, crisp, very juicy and very sharp. Somewhat aromatic.
Synonyms: Duke of Wellington, Dumbelow’s Seedling, Dumeller’s Crab, Dumeller’s ...
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Updated: 1 week ago
New Hawthornden
Type: Culinary, Sauce
summary: A mid-season, heritage cooking apple that makes a tart and fine-tasting sauce. Considered a good market and garden variety and continues to be available from ...
Synonyms: Graham’s Giant. On ocassion, it has been mistakenly referred to as the Winter Hawthornden .
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Updated: 1 week ago
Hawthornden
Type: Culinary, Sauce
summary: A heritage Scottish cooking apple that makes a flavourful, brisk and creamy sauce.
Synonyms: Haley, Hawley (there is also an American-bred apple by this name, please see ...
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Updated: 1 week ago
Shoreditch White
Type: Cooking
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish and tender. Juicy and sweet.
Synonyms: The Hawthornden uses this name as a synonym.
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Updated: 1 week ago
Lincolnshire Holland Pippin
Type: Cooking, Culinary
characteristics: The flesh is white and sprightly.
Synonyms: Striped Holland Pippin. Note that the Hawthornden is also an apple known by the ...
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Updated: 1 week ago
Hawley
Type: Dessert
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish white, fine-grained, tender and soft. Juicy and sweet-sharp.
Synonyms: Douse, Dowse, Dows. There is also a British-bred apple that uses the name Hawley ...
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Updated: 1 week ago
Maiden’s Blush
Type: Dessert, Juice
summary: This handsome and juicy British fresh-eating apple originated in the Herefordshire area of Britain during the 1800s.
Synonyms: The name Maiden’s Blush is frequently used as a synonym for the U.S.A. variety ...
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Updated: 1 week ago
Gravenstein
Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Juice, Pie, Sauce
summary: A good, sweet-tart eating apple if fully ripened on the tree. However, it is most commonly used green as a cooking apple for apple pies and sauce, but creates a ...
Synonyms: Graasten, Grafenapfel, Gravenstein, Gravensteiner, Grafensteiner, Banks Red, ...
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Updated: 1 week ago
English Golden Russet
Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Pie
summary: Once a popular dessert apple because of its sweetness and flavour. Unfortunately, the russet coat is not appreciated in today's market and the variety is being ...
Synonyms: Aromatic Russet (please also see Aromatic Russet ), English Golden, English Golden Russet, ...
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Updated: 1 week ago
Aromatic Russet
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summary: Please see Aromatic Russet , Aromatic Russet (Scott) , Burntisland Spice , Cornish Aromatic , Fenouillet Gris , English Golden Russet
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Updated: 1 week ago
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Calville Blanc d’Hiver
Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Juice, Pie, Sauce
summary: This is the quintessential ingredient for French apple tarts. Aside from its wonderful flavour and sharpness, it holds its shape well when baked. It is also ...
Synonyms: Blanche de Zurich, Blandureau d'Auvergne, Bonnet Carrée (there is also a ...
Sekai Ichi
Type: Dessert
summary: Bred in Japan by crossing Delicious and Golden Delicious, the Sekai Ichi can grow extremely large.
Synonyms: Sekaiichi, World's Number One
Amère de Berthecourt
Type: Cider
summary: This bittersweet cider apple orginated in the 1800s in France and is valued for blending when additional bitterness is called for in hard cider.
Synonyms: Amer de Berthecourt, Berthcourt
Blanc Mollet
Type: Cider
summary: A French cider apple, medium body with a mild, bitter flavour. Classed as being very good.
Synonyms: Amer Blanc, Blanc Doux, Blanche Hâtive, la Blanche de la Somme, Bonne Race, ...
Fenouillet Gris
Type: Cider, Dessert
summary: This flavourful, russet apple with its anise flavour emerged in the 1500s continues to be appreciated to this day as a dessert apple as well as for making ...
Synonyms: Anis, Anise Fenouillet, Aromatic Russet (there is cultivar by this name, see ...
Golden Harvey
Type: Cider, Dessert, Jelly, Juice
summary: Dessert apple, also used for making juice, but it shines as a cider apple providing an intense sweet-sharp flavour and high specific gravity in the juice.
Synonyms: Bradley's Golden Pippin, Brandy apple, Guernsey Pippin, Harvey, Herefordshire ...
Niedzwetzkyana
Type: Culinary, Eating, Jelly, Ornamental
characteristics: The flesh is pink tending to red. Coarse-grained. Sweet and and tart, ranging from moderate to full-blown.
Alexander
Type: Culinary, Eating, Sauce
characteristics: Flesh is white with a faint tinge of yellow. Coarse texture. Juicy and sweet with winey flavours.. Sweet when eaten fresh, otherwise quite sharp.
Synonyms: Albertin, Alexander the First, Aport, Calville Alexandre, Emperor Alexander, ...
Northern Spy
Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Pie, Sauce
characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained, firm and crisp. Juicy and moderately sweet. Flavour is quite sweet-tart. Browns slowly when the flesh is exposed to air.
Synonyms: Green Peak Spy, Northern Pie Apple, Spy, Red Spy, Red Northern Spy, King, ...
