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Apples with the use of cider
RF: Winekist
summary: Intensely red inside and out, this tart apple makes an unusual apple sauce and it is favoured by cider makers for its rich red colouring.
RF: Winter Red Flesh
characteristics: The flesh is juicy and red. Sharp, dry and somewhat astringent. Crunchy.. firm.
Rheinischer Bohnapfel
characteristics: The flesh is pale yellowish, somewaht coarse? grained and firm. Juicy. Tart and sligtly sweet,
Ribston Pippin
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summary: A classic dessert apple which fell into relative obscurity with the arrival of the Cox's Orange Pippin.
Roane’s White Crab
summary: A chance seedling of Virginia Crab found growing in Virginia in the late 1700s. It has likely disappeared in the course of two centuries since then.
Robert de Rennes
origins: Assez r pandu dans le Nord de l’Ille et Vilaine et l’Est de Dinan
Robert's Crab
summary: Produces somewhat large, purple-skinned crabapples, best suited for ornamental purposes or ciders.
Robin
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characteristics: The flesh is greenish and very firm. Juicy, slightly tart and astringent. Keeps about a month in cold storage.
Rock Kernel
characteristics: The flesh is yellow, firm. Sweet with anise flavours.
Rome Beauty
1
characteristics: Flesh is pale greenish-yellow, firm, sometimes very hard, fine-grained. Somewhat tart.
Rote Sternrenette
1
characteristics: The flesh is pale yellowish, often stained red next to the skin. Fire-grained. Moderately juicy, sweet-tart and mildly flavoured.
Roter Mond
summary: A cider and dessert apple developed in Russia during the early 1900s. Marketed as Weirouge . Used commercially for making juices, often blended with sweeter apple ...
Roter Münsterländer Borsdorfer
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characteristics: The flesh is greenish-white, coarse-grained, somewhat sweet-tart.
Roter Trierer Weinapfel
origins: The region of Trier in southwestern Germany. First documented in 1872
Rouge la For t
origins: Canton de Merdrignac (22), Mauron (56), de St Méen (35).
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