Beauty of Bath
Harvest period: Early August
Shelf life: Two weeks, best eaten immediately
Flavour: Sharp, sweet and juicy
This is one of the earliest dessert apples
Blenheim Orange
Origin: Blenheim Park, Oxfordshire circa 1820
Harvest period: Early October
Shelf life: Eat by January
Flavour: Crisp and dry with a nutty flavour
Culinary or Dessert? Both
Bramley
Origin: 1870, Nottinghamshire, England.
Harvesting period: October
Shelf life: Eat by March
Flavour: Acid
Culinary or Dessert: Culinary
Charles Ross
Origin: Bred by Charles Ross and first exhibited in 1890
Harvest period: Mid September
Shelf Life: Eat by December
Flavour: Sweet
Culinary or Dessert: Both
Christmas Pearmain
Origin: England 1893.
Harvest period: November.
Shelf life: Eat by January.
Flavour: Sweet, rich and slightly sharp.
Culinary or Dessert: Dessert.
Court of Wick
Origin: Yatton, Somerset, circa 1790.
Harvest period: October:
Shelf life: Eat by December
Flavour: Possibly sweet and sharp.
Culinary or Dessert: Dessert and cider apple.
Elstar
Origin: Holland circa 1955.
Harvest period: October.
Shelf life: Eat by January.
Flavour: Sweet and similar to Cox Orange Pippin.
Once harvested the flavour will mature if left for three weeks before eating!
Culinary or Dessert: Dessert.
Falstaff
Origin: Kent 1965.
Harvest period: October.
Shelf life: Eat by December.
Flavour: Aromatic, sweet, juicy and mellows with storing.
Culinary or Dessert: Dessert.
George Cave
Origin: Essex, England 1945.
Harvesting period: August
Shelf life: Eat by August.
Flavour: Sweet and sharp.
Culinary or Dessert: Dessert.
Jonagold
Origin: America
Harvest period: October.
Shelf life: Eat by March.
Flavour: Sweet, tart and firm.
Culinary or Dessert: Both.
Jonathan
Origin: Woodstock, New York, 1820
Harvest period: September.
Shelf life: Eat by January.
Flavour: Sweet and tart
Culinary or Dessert:
Jupiter
Origin: 1982 East Malling, Kent
Harvest period: September
Shelf life: Eat by March
Flavour: Like a Cox’s Orange Pippin but sharper.
Culinary or Dessert: Dessert
Laxton Superb
Origin: Bedford 1897, raised by Laxton Brothers
Harvest period: October
Shelf life: Eat by February
Flavour: Very sweet!
Culinary or Dessert: Dessert
Newton Wonder
Origin: Derbyshire, 1870.
Harvesting period: October.
Shelf life: Eat by December.
Flavour: Subacid.
Culinary or Dessert: Culinary.
Pitmaston Pineapple
Origin: Williams of Pitmaston, England 1785.
Harvest period: September
Shelf life: Eat by February.
Flavour: Reminiscent of pineapples.
Culinary or Dessert: Dessert and cider apple.
Redsleeves
Origin: 1986, England
Harvesting period: August.
Shelf life: September.
Flavour: Sweet and sharp.
Culinary or Dessert: Dessert.
Ribston Pippin
Origin: Yorkshire 1707.
Harvest period: September.
Shelf life: Eat by January.
Flavour: Strong classic English taste.
Culinary or Dessert: Desert and cider apple.
Sunset
Origin: Kent, England 1918.
Harvest period: September
Shelf life: Eat by December.
Flavour: Intense, aromatic and quite sharp.
Culinary or dessert: Dessert
Suntan
Origin: Malling in Kent.
Harvest period: October.
Shelf life: Eat by February
Flavour: Initially sharp, sweetens with maturity.
Culinary of dessert: Dessert.
Tydeman’s Late Orange
Origin: 1930, East Malling, Kent.
Harvest period: October.
Shelf life: Eat by April.
Flavour: Strongly aromatic with a fine balance between sweet and acid.
Culinary or dessert: Dessert.
Winston
Origin: Berkshire, 1900.
Harvest period: October.
Shelf life: Eat by April.
Flavour: Sharp initially but mellows with age to sweet and aromatic.
Culinary or Dessert: Dessert.
Worcester Pearmain
Origin: Worcester, England, 1870.
Harvesting period: September.
Shelf life: Eat by October.
Flavour: Reminiscent of strawberries.
Culinary or Dessert: Dessert.