Celebrating and remembering old fruit and vegetable varieties
The Lancashire Pippin was received by the national fruit trials in 1950, from Westmorland in Northern England.
Fruits have soft, slightly course flesh with a subacid flavour. Reportedly, this flavour becomes very bland when cooked.
Uses: Culinary
Parents: Unknown
Flowers: Mid to late May
Picking: Mid September
Natural Storage: October
The Lancashire Pippin apple can be found growing in the orchards of Acorn Bank House, Temple Sowerby, Cumbria.
The Ribston Pippin was raised at Ribston Hall in Yorkshire, England, from seed brought from Rouen in France. It is thought to have been planted around 1707, receiving it’s first RHS Award of Merit in 1962.
Fruits have a red/yellow flush and the flesh a fine, firm, crisp texture which is juicy with a rich, sweet aromatic flavour.
Uses: Desert
Parents: Unknown
Flowers: Early to Mid May
Picking: Late September
Natural Storage: October – January
The Ribston Pippin apple can be found growing in the orchards of Acorn Bank House, Temple Sowerby, Cumbria.
Young trees available from Adams Apples
The Scotch Bridget Apple also known as White Calville, originated in Scotland in 1851.
A culinary apple commonly found in Cumbrian farm orchards, it will produce regularly and crops fairly heavily in Northern Locations.
The fruits have tender, soft flesh, flushed with red. It has a subacid rich flavour and will not fall when cooked.
When kept until December, the fruit ripens to become a desert apple.
Uses: Culinary
Parents: Unknown
Flowers: Mid May
Picking: October
Natural Storage: October – December
The Scotch Bridget apple can be found growing in the orchards of Acorn Bank House, Temple Sowerby, Cumbria.
Young trees available from Adams Apples
The Bramley’s Seedling apple is a triploid, raised around 1809 – 1813 by Mary Ann Brailsford in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England.
It was introduced by Nurseyman H. Merryweather in 1865 and first exhibited in 1876, receiving a First Class certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1893.
By far the most popular culinary apple in the UK and the variety most often found on supermarket shelves.
The fruit is a green/yellow with a strong acid flavour. A vigorous grower.
Uses: Culinary
Parents: Unknown
Flowers: Mid May
Picking: October
Natural Storage: October to March.
The Bramley’s seedling apple can be found growing in the orchards of Acorn Bank House, Temple Sowerby, Cumbria.
Young trees available from Adams Apples
The Egremont Russet apple is a classic English Victorian variety, originating in England in 1872. Believed to have been raised by the Earl of Egremont in Petworth, Sussex, England.
This medium sized desert apple has a dull golden skin flecked with yellow and is the third most common apple in cultivation in England and Wales.
The flesh of the Egremont Russet is quite dry but juicy with a sharp-sweet, delicately “nutty” flavour. The flesh becomes drier with keeping.
Uses: Desert
Parents: Unknown
Flowers: Mid May
Picking: October
Natural Storage: October to December.
The Egremont Russet can be found growing in the orchards of Acorn Bank House, Temple Sowerby, Cumbria.
Young trees available from Adams Apples