Eating Apples
3 years ago I bought a couple of family fruit trees. These are trees that have several different apple varieties grafted on to one root stock. This year has been amazing for my eating apples. A lovely cold Winter put the tree into a proper dormancy and formed nice fruit buds. These are Lord Lambourne apples.
I picked and stored the perfect apples yesterday. These are a gorgeous mix of a crisp texture, and a great mix of sweet and acid. A really lovely eating apple.
Another apple on the same tree is this Egremont Russett apple. A distinctive apple with a nutty taste. Perfect for eating with cheese. I love these.
And I'm not the only one!
posted by Matron @ 7:34 AM
10 Comments:
We used to have a row of apples along our fence and one was Lord Lambourne. WE have one or two remaining but we're not sure which varieties they are.
Hi Matron
I can almost taste them! They look great.
We have the Egremont Russett and are looking forward to harvest time!
Oh, interesting! The Egremont makes me think of Asian pears.
I wonder how it would do in hot climate? I will have to look into it, it sounds quite delicious. :)
Hi matron,I have been looking for an easy recipe for Piccalli, I remembered you featured it last year and I found it under sept 2010 but Please can you give a bit more info on the how and what you used?!
We are completely overrun with apples right now, including some Egremont Russett. In fact we have four varieties in all. Can you cook with the russetts do you think?
Peggy - exactly the right time of year, in fact I was going to chop the vegetables tomorrow! I will blog about it in a few days but will email you with my recipe.
The Egremont is a very different looking apple. It sounds like something we would like. Thanks for posting your wonderful pictures.
These look lovely! I love the thought of growing my own apples - I must look into it :-) Love 'n' hugs, Mel xx
Hi matron, I found your picallili recipe under your August 2008 post!
I never knew or heard about that type of apple tree..guess it works, your apples are lovely..
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