Cooking apple
A cooking apple is an apple that is used primarily for cooking rather than eating raw. Cooking apples are larger, and can be tarter than eating varieties. Some varieties have a firm flesh that does not break down much when cooked. The British grow a large range of apples specifically for cooking, but such varieties are used worldwide, although apples eaten raw are also used for cooking purposes. Many apples are dual-purpose.
Apples can be cooked down into sauce, apple butter or fruit preserves, baked in an oven and served with custard, and made into pies or apple crumble. In the UK apples are commonly boiled and mashed and served as apple sauce with roast pork. Bramley apple is by far the most popular cooking apple in the UK.
A baked apple is one that has been baked in an oven until it has become soft. The core is usually removed and often stuffed with other fruits, brown sugar, raisins, or cinnamon.
John Claudius Loudon wrote in 1842[1]
Properties of a good apple — Apples for table are characterised by a firm pulp, elevated, poignant flavour, regular form, and beautiful colouring; those for kitchen use by the property of falling as it is technically termed, or forming in general a pulpy mass of equal consistency when baked or boiled, and by a large size. Some sorts of apples have the property of falling when green, as the Keswick, Carlisle, Hawthornden, and other codlins; and some only after being ripe, as the russet tribes. Those which have this property when green are particularly valuable for affording sauces to geese early in the season, and for succeeding the gooseberry in tarts.
Eating raw
It is often believed that eating cooking apples raw will make a person sick. In reality cooking apples are harmless raw and are just varieties of apples whose characteristics are well suited to cooking. This myth is simply a product of cooking apples' tart taste and the possibility of it not sitting well in the stomach.
Cooking apple cultivars
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- Antonovka
- Arthur Turner
- Baldwin
- Ballyfatten
- Beacon
- Belle de Boskoop
- Bismarck apple
- Black Amish – also consumed as an eating apple[2]
- Blenheim Orange [3]
- Bloody Ploughman
- Bountiful
- Bramley [4]
- Crab apple (primarily for jelly)
- Calville Blanc d'hiver
- Carolina Red June
- Carter's Blue
- Catshead
- Charles Ross
- Chelmsford Wonder
- Coul Blush
- Custard
- Duchess of Oldenburg
- Dudley Winter
- Dumelow's Seedling
- Edward VII [5]
- Emneth Early
- Esopus Spitzenburg
- Gennet Moyal
- George Neal
- Glockenapfel
- Ginger Gold
- Golden Noble
- Golden Pippi
- Gragg
- Gravenstein [6]
- Granny Smith – also consumed as an eating apple
- Grenadier
- Harrison Cider Apple
- Howgate Wonder
- Irish Peach
- Isaac Newton
- James Grieve – also consumed as an eating apple
- Jonathan – also consumed as an eating apple
- Jumbo
- Keswick Codlin
- Lane's Prince Albert[3]
- Lodi[6]
- Lord Derby
- Maiden Blush
- Malinda
- McIntosh[citation needed] – also consumed as an eating apple
- My Jewel
- Newell-Kimzey (aka Airlie Red Flesh)
- Newton Wonder
- Nickajack
- Norfolk Biffin
- Northern greening [7]
- Northern Spy [6]
- Peasgood's Nonsuch
- Pink Lady – also consumed as an eating apple
- Pinova
- Porter's
- Pott's Seedling
- Pumpkin Sweet apple
- Red Astrachan
- Red Prince
- Reverend W. Wilks
- Rhode Island Greening
- Rome Beauty[6][8]
- Sandow [6]
- Scotch Bridget
- Scotch Dumpling
- Stirling Castle
- Smokehouse
- Snow apple (aka Fameuse) [6]
- Spartan
- Stayman
- Tickled Pink
- Tolman Sweet
- Tom Putt
- Topaz (apple)
- Twenty Ounce
- Wagener
- Warner's King
- White Melrose
- White Transparent
- Wolf River [9]
- York Imperial
See also
References
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