Apples

[amateur51]

My father had a Keswick Codling cooking apple tree which produced fruit of wonderful fluffiness when cooked - great for pies and apple sauces or just as a baked apple (with real egg custard please ).

In the course of finding out if I had the spelling right, I came across this apparently wonderful source of 'older' apple varieties

http://www.habitataid.co.uk/acatalog/about_us.html

If I had a bigger garden I'd be in there like a shot

[amateur51]

I bought a bag of russet apples from Waitrose yesterday - they're crisp & fresh-tasting and sweet and a real treat

[teamsaint]

The bag of cox's I bought from a leading supermarket this week were spectacularly sharp.....not too great.

[vinteuil]

I bought a bag of russet apples from Waitrose yesterday - they're crisp & fresh-tasting and sweet and a real treat

... and also "essential" I think - so a bargain!

[french frank]

... and also "essential" I think - so a bargain!

Essential Apples - now there's a thought

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Essential Apples - now there's a thought

Ah, but if the Beeb took it up, it'd just be the core repertoire.

[french frank]

Ah, but if the Beeb took it up, it'd just be the core repertoire.

Yes, sadly - gives you the pip, doesn't it?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

What's needed is a presenter with an intellectual passion and understated commitment to the subject.

Where are the latter-day John Peels?

[amateur51]

What's needed is a presenter with an intellectual passion and understated commitment to the subject.

Where are the latter-day John Peels?

Stalking of which, where does this obsession with puns stem from?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Stalking of which, where does this obsession with puns stem from?

It's just a play on worms.

[kernelbogey]

...My own favourites are Ashmead Kernel and Egremont Russet...

I haven't had the chance to read this thread but imagine that the poor fruit crop has been extensively discussed above. Yesterday in our local fruit 'n' veg a customer was telling the proprietor that a nearby (south east Hampshire) pear orchard had 'not a single pear' on any tree.

[amateur51]

It's just a play on worms.

Speaking of which this thread was getting a little flat but now is getting more down to earth which I hope isn't a fluke - a change of diet, perhaps?

[kernelbogey]

...is getting more down to earth....

'S all gone apples and pears, 'sfar as I'm concerned.