Bramley
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The most famous Cooking Apple and its easy to see why with heavy crops of flavoursome fruit. This is propagated from the original Bramley apple tree. The Bramley is a Vigorous grower and a partial tip bearer.
Produces very large fruit, flat and round in shape with creamy acid flesh,green skin with a rosy flush on the sunny side.
Picking time - Ripens early October. Season of use - November through to March.
Discovered in Southwell, Nottinghamshire in the garden of local butcher, Matthew Bramley, in 1856. Accounts for 95% of all UK cooking apple sales. A very tart, firm apple, high in malic acid with strong appley flavour. Turns light when cooked and has good texture.
