• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

CooksInfo

  • Home
  • Recipes
  • Encyclopaedia
  • Kitchenware
  • Food Calendar
menu icon
go to homepage
search icon
Homepage link
  • Recipes
  • Encyclopaedia
  • Kitchenware
  • Food Calendar
×
You are here: Home / Fruit / Hard Fruit / Apples / All-Purpose Apples / Cannon Pearmain Apples

Cannon Pearmain Apples

Cannon Pearmain are medium-sized apples.

They have smooth, yellow skin with a dark red flush, dotted with yellow.

Inside, the flesh is crisp, coarse, juicy, yellow and aromatic.

The flavour improves in storage..

These apples are considered best when grown at high altitudes.

They do not bruise easily.

Cooking Tips

Generally branded as all-purpose.

Storage Hints

Stores well; at least 4 months.

History Notes

Cannon Pearmain Apples were first mentioned in 1804 in the Virginia Argus newspaper.

They were grown commercially in Virginia until the early 1900s.

Language Notes

The word “pearmain” comes from the French adjective “parmanus”, meaning from Parma in northern Italy.

This page first published: Oct 7, 2006 · Updated: Jun 18, 2018.

This web site generates income from affiliated links and ads at no cost to you to fund continued research · Information on this site is Copyright © 2021· Feel free to cite correctly, but copying whole pages for your website is content theft and will be DCMA'd.

Tagged With: American Apples

Primary Sidebar

Search

Home canning resources

Vist our satellite site Healthy Canning for Home Food Preservation Advice

www.hotairfrying.com

Visit our Hot Air Frying Site

Random Quote

‘I don’t like gourmet cooking or ‘this’ cooking or ‘that’ cooking. I like good cooking.’ — James Beard (5 May 1903 – 21 January 1985)

Food Calendar

food-calendar-icon
What happens when in the world of food.

NEWSLETTER

Subscribe for updates on new content added.

Footer

↑ back to top

About

  • About this site
  • Privacy Policy
  • Copyright enforced!
  • Terms & Conditions

Newsletter

  • Sign Up! for emails and updates

Site

  • Recipes
  • Encyclopaedia
  • Kitchenware
  • Food Calendar

This web site generates income from affiliated links and ads at no cost to you to fund continued research · The text on this site is © Copyright.