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British apples There are about 1200 varieties of British apples that have been bred or discovered and yet so few can be found in the shops at a time.
Some apples are British through and through, like the famous Bramley cooking apple, which started life in a cottage garden in Southwell, Nottingham, and was the first marketed in the 1860s.
Many have very different and distinctive flavours and textures; here are just a few of the many varieties: |
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Description |
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Bramley Seedling |
Available all year round. Large, flat apple, green in colour, with dull red cheeks. Sharp and fruity, the tangy flavour is maintained after cooking. Considered to be the best English cooking apple. |
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Cox’s Orange Pippin |
The real English Cox is a complex blend of many flavours, aromatic and rich. It is a small to medium-sized round apple, greenish yellow to orange in colour, streaked or shaded with red. The flesh is tender and juicy and is probably the best known of English eating apples. Its origins date back to 1825. |
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Discovery |
A beautiful rosy red apple with white flesh that has a blush of pink nearest the skin. Delicately perfumed, with a crisp texture and juicy bite. |
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Egremont Russet |
A medium sized apple with a russet brown skin and an orange blush. The creamy flesh of this apple is densely textured. A connoisseur’s apple with a fruity nutty taste. |
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Fiesta |
A recent introduction developed in 1972. The flesh is crisp and juicy with a Cox-like flavour, yellowish and rather coarse textured. |
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James Grieve |
Pale green to yellow, thin skinned and soft. Bruises rather easily. |
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Laxton’s Superb |
Medium sized apple, round, yellow shaded red cheeks. Flesh is white, crisp and sweet. Excellent late apple. |
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Red Jonagold |
A combination of sweetness from the Golden Delicious and the acidity of Jonathan have produced this rich honeyed flavoured apple. |
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Royal Gala |
Developed from the Golden Delicious and Cox varieties. The flesh is very sweet, crisp and juicy with a delicately perfumed quality. Stores well. |
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Spartan |
A good ripe Spartan is perfumed, very sweet and fruity. The flesh is very white, crisp and juicy and aromatic even before the fruit is cut. |
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Tydeman’s Early |
A juicy, sweet scented apple similar to a Worcester, but redder, larger and less conical. |
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Worcester Pearmain |
A medium sized apple with a sweet taste and distinctive strawberry perfume. It has a conical shape and the bright red skin contrasts with its white flesh. |