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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 05 5:02 pm Post subject:
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

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
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Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 05 5:09 pm Post subject:
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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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 05 5:10 pm Post subject:

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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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 05 5:12 pm Post subject:
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

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 05 5:13 pm Post subject:
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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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 05 5:16 pm Post subject:
Good point, how many varieties are we looking at here?

ele

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
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Location: Derby

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 05 6:14 pm Post subject:

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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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 05 6:17 pm Post subject:
Gis a bit more of a clue on flavour, at the moment I'm sticking with my original thoughts

ele

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
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Location: Derby

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 05 9:55 am Post subject:

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

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 05 10:20 am Post subject:

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

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: shropshire

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 05 11:50 am Post subject:
Just bought some lovely looking russets from the farm shop and one I hadn't tried before - Lord Lambourne - lovely and sweet

ele

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 814
Location: Derby

Posted: Thu Oct 13, 05 12:27 pm Post subject:

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

Joined: 19 Jul 2005
Posts: 211

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 05 10:39 pm Post subject:

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

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 05 9:57 am Post subject:

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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