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ele



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 05 4:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'm guessing the little one is an egremont russet or something like that

forgot to say they're not what I've grown but what I bought so I only wondered if anyone had off the top of their head guesses

tahir



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 05 5:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Bought? In that case that's definitely an ER, Cox's Orange pippin, Conference (taste can vary a lot), is there another apple too?

judith



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 05 5:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I wouldn't say that the top left is a Cox's. It looks more like a Braeburn or summat like that to me.

tahir



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 05 5:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Judith wrote:
I think the little one beneath the ER is more like a Cox's.


That's the one I was talking about (bottom l/h), the other one isn't braeburn (I don't think) although it probably is if it's a supermarket apple.

tahir



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 05 5:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Doesn't it look a bit too round for Braeburn? Mind you the only apple I've got that looks like that is Festival and I've never seen that anywhere other than lathcoats

judith



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 05 5:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I thought there were 4 types there. (Shows what I know ). But I still don't think the non-ER is a Cox. Certainly not an English one.

tahir



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 05 5:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Good point, how many varieties are we looking at here?

ele



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 05 6:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

2 varieties I'm pretty sure, the top left does look like the bottom left in real life, it's just the way the camera caught it has made it look different.

They should be English cos they came out my local organic box delivery, every few weeks the varieties have been changing, I've also got some little titchy ones that look a bit like the big ones.

I'm dead ignorant on fruit varieties as you've probably guessed, but I'd be a bit suprised if they were coxs, cos I thought they were smaller and later or is that just the supermarket ones?

tahir



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 05 6:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Gis a bit more of a clue on flavour, at the moment I'm sticking with my original thoughts

ele



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 05 9:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

tahir wrote:
Gis a bit more of a clue on flavour, at the moment I'm sticking with my original thoughts

on the cusp between acid and sweet, quite crisp, turned brown very slowly, not very aromatic, tasted mildly of oranges, less flavoured than the russet, it's also a big apple it filled my palm totally!

I suspect that you're right it is a cox's orange pippin and maybe they bought a load in from further afield or something, who knows

judith



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 05 10:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

ele wrote:
I suspect that you're right it is a cox's orange pippin and maybe they bought a load in from further afield or something, who knows


I wonder - the New Zealand Cox's look very different to the English ones IMO. But it would seem rather daft to send you out-of-season apples from New Zealand!

bernie-woman



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 05 11:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Just bought some lovely looking russets from the farm shop and one I hadn't tried before - Lord Lambourne - lovely and sweet

ele



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 05 12:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Judith wrote:
ele wrote:
I suspect that you're right it is a cox's orange pippin and maybe they bought a load in from further afield or something, who knows


I wonder - the New Zealand Cox's look very different to the English ones IMO. But it would seem rather daft to send you out-of-season apples from New Zealand!


I had a chat with the delvery chap today and it was definitely English so maybe a cox from down south. They grow their own apples too, many different varieties apparently but they're smaller and only just getting ripe, I shan't post up photos of all those for ID though

mandycharlie



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 16, 05 10:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I have an admission to make... almighty tahir... on bended knee I is...

hubby, who is not from country folk I hasten to say...

prefers,,, (close your ears all those that are a listening)

apples... that are softened by age.

to the point,, that as the good housewife, shopper that I am,,, who buys/steals/begs and borrows such wonderful apples,,,,, he then waits until they are wrinkled and soft before eating them..

I wipe my fevered brow with such endevours...

what can I do?

judith



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 17, 05 9:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

mandycharlie wrote:
what can I do?


I wouldn't change a thing! Seems like the ideal scenario to me. You get to eat nice crunchy, juicy apples. Your poor misguided hubbie can have your leftovers. Where's the problem?

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