As for “cook up well”, what kind of apple cooks up well depends entirely on what you are cooking. The category of “cooking apples” is best broken down into “sauce apples” and “pie apples.”
If you are making an apple sauce or an apple butter, you will want an apple that breaks down easily into a purée.
If you are making apples pies, a compote, or if you are stewing apples, or baking them whole, you will want an apple that can hold its shape when cooked. You don’t want to base your apple pie if you can help it on an apple that will break down into a purée, because then the pie will appear flat after cooking, and when a slice is lifted away from the pie dish, the filling (which has turned to sauce) can drip out in mid-air.
Cooking apples generally tend to also be tart apples, as cooking gives you a chance to balance their pucker power with a sweetener to provide a range of flavour.
There’s another, more banal consideration, too. What variety of apples constitutes a good cooking apple will also depend on what you can realistically buy where you are. Wealthy Apples may be a preferred pie apple amongst old-timers in the eastern Canada and US, but in Australia, cooks will have a much easier time getting their hands on Granny Smiths for their pies.
Substitutes
Apple sauce; canned apples; another fruit.
Types of cooking apples
Alfriston Apples
Alfriston Apples are large-sized, with bright green skin.
The flesh is very juicy, with a tart flavour.
The Alfriston Apple tree is very productive, delivering a late harvest.
Cooking Tips
Alfriston Apples are good cooking apples. They cook...
Allum Apples
Allum are medium-sized apples with dark red skin.
They have crisp but tender juicy white flesh with a fair bit of tartness to the taste.
The trees blossoms are quite fragrant.
Cooking Tips
Allum Apples can be used in pies.
Storage Hints
Allum...
Annie Elizabeth Apples
Annie Elizabeth apples are good for cooking whole either in baking, as they maintain their shape, or stewing.
The tree produces crimson blossoms.
History Notes
The apple was developed about 1857 by Samuel Greatorex at Knighton in Knighton St....
Annurca Apples
Annurca Apples are grown in Campania, Italy, in the provinces of Naples (the area of Giuglianese-Flegrea), Caserta (areas of the Maddalonese, the Aversana and the Teanese), and in Benevento (areas of Caudma-Telesina and Tabiirno.) They are also grown...
Anoka Apples
Anoka Apples have yellowish-green skin with red streaks, and white flesh inside.
The trees start bearing fruit at a young age. They are not, however, very hardy, and are not very long-lived.
The tree is, though, a heavy bearer. Anoka Apples begin...
Antonovka Apples
Antonovka Apples are large-sized apples weighing up to 1 ½ pounds (700 g.) Mostly grown in Russia, they have green skin ripening to yellow, and white flesh inside with a tart taste.
Though rare for an apple, Antonovka Apples will reproduce true...
Arthur Turner Apples
Arthur Turner are large-sized, conical apples with a bit of ribbing.
They have yellowish-green skin with pink flushes.
Inside, they have yellowish-white, dryish flesh with a tangy taste.
The tree has particularly beautiful blossoms in the spring.
Cooking...
Ballarat Apples
Ballarat Apples are large-sized, with green skin with a red flush to it.
Inside they have firm, coarse, off-white flesh, with a slightly tart taste.
The apples ripen in late October.
Cooking Tips
Cooking apples.
Storage Hints
Stores for...
Bardsey Apples
Bardsey are medium-sized apples. They have cream-coloured skin with pink flushes and some ribbing.
Inside, they have crisp, juicy, sweet flesh with a trace of lemon in the aroma.
The tree flowers with white blossoms and is very hardy.
Cooking...
Barnack Beauty Apples
Barnack Beauty are medium-sized apples, with gold skin covered with bright orangey-red flushes.
Inside they have aromatic, off-white crispy, juicy, tart flesh.
The tree is an abundant bearer.
Cooking Tips
Best for cooking.
Storage Hints
Stores...
Battleford Apples
Battleford Apples grow up to 3 inches (7 ½ cm) wide.
They have greenish-yellow skin with red flushes.
Inside, they have yellowish, coarsely-textured flesh, with a tart and sour taste.
The fruit ripens late August / early September.
Cooking...
Beacon Apples
Beacon are medium-sized apples with bright-red skin.
Inside, the juicy flesh is slightly red-tinged with a somewhat mealy texture, but good flavour.
The fruit ripens late August.
Cooking Tips
For fresh-eating or cooking, particularly baking....
Belmac Apple
Medium to large apple, with a size of 2.5 inches by 3 inches (6 cm x 7.5 cm), and an average weight of 5 oz (140g.) It looks like a McIntosh apple in colour, size and shape.
The shiny skin is smooth, thick and tough. It is red with green stripes....
Belmont Apples
Belmont are large-sized apples, with gold coloured, waxy skin.
Inside, they have crisp, tender flesh with a good mild flavour that balances sweet and sour in its taste.
The apple does not ship well as it bruises easily, so it has not been widely commercialized.
Cooking...
Benham Apples
Benham are medium-sized, round, slightly tall apples.
They have thin yellowish-brown skin, occasionally with a flush of red.
Inside, they have yellowish, tender, finely-textured, juicy flesh.
The fruit ripens late July, early August.
Cooking...
Bietigheimer Apples
Bietigheimer are large-sized apples with light yellow skin flushed with red stripes.
Inside, they have coarse, white, crisp firm flesh with a slightly sour taste.
The fruit ripens late August, early September.
Cooking Tips
For cooking.
Storage...
Bismarck Apples
Bismarck Apples are large-sized apples with tough golden-yellow skin flushed with red.Inside, they have finely-textured, white, crisp, juicy flesh with a slight green tinge.
The apples ripen late August, early September.
Cooking Tips
Best for cooking.
History...
Black Oxford Apples
Black Oxford Apples have dark purply-red skin with a dark blue "bloom" on it.
The tree is very cold hardy, but it does tend to bear every other year.
Cooking Tips
Good for cooking and cider; also fresh-eating.
History Notes
Black Oxford Apples...
Blacktwig Apples
Blacktwig are medium to large-sized apples with greenish-yellow skin, with red flushes on it.
Inside they have firm, finely-textured, juicy, yellowish flesh. The taste is very tart.
Ripens late September, early October.
Cooking Tips
Good for...
Bloody Butcher Apple
A large deep red apple with a blush of pale yellow and a bit of russeting. The flesh is firm, juicy and white, with a tart flavour.
Though a good cooking apple, it is also popular with cider makers.
Popular in Counties Kilkenny, Offaly, and Meath...
Blue Pearmain Apples
Blue Pearmain are large-sized apples. They have dark, purplish-red skin covered with a blue boom, and white dots.
Inside, they have firm, somewhat coarse, yellowish, aromatic flesh with a mild but sweet, rich taste.
The apples ripen in September.
Cooking...
Bonza Apples
Bonza Apples are medium to large-sized apples, somewhat flattened on top.
They have pale yellowish-green skin covered with a red flush.
Inside, they have firm, juicy, very white flesh, with a sweet taste.
In Australia, they ripen in March.
Cooking...
Boskoop Apples
Boskoop Apples are large-sized apples with pale, dull yellowish-gold or green skin, with bright orangey-red flushes, and some russetting.
Inside, the flesh is yellowish, firm and coarsely-textured. It is also crisp, juicy, tender and quite tart.
After...
Caney Fork Limbertwig Apples
As for other Limbertwig apples: crisp, juicy, yellowish flesh with good flavour.
Cooking Tips
A cooking apple.
History Notes
Caney Fork Limbertwig Apples are reputed to have originated in the south-west corner of Kentucky state, in what is now...
Carolina Red June Apples
Carolina Red June are small to medium-sized apples.
They have glossy, pale-yellow skin flushed with red on the side that gets the sun.
Inside the white flesh is occasionally streaked red near the skin. The flesh is crisp, tender, finely-grained...
Cathead Apple
A large, greenish yellow skinned apple with a tart taste that is good for cooking. It cooks to a firm purée.
It is also good for drying.
History Notes
First written record of this apple is in England in 1629.
Literature & Lore
Got its ...
Crawley Beauty Apples
Crawley Beauty are medium to large-sized apples.
They have dark green skin with red flushes.
Inside, they have firm, dry flesh with a tart taste.
The tree is a heavy, reliable producer that blossoms late.
Ripe Crawley Beauty Apples won't...
Dakota Gold Apples
Dakota Gold are medium to large-sized with yellow skin covered with red.
Inside, they have firm, crunchy flesh with a mild, slightly tart taste.
The tree is very hardy and an abundant bearer.
The apples ripen mid-August to mid-September.
Cooking...
Dayton Apples
Dayton are medium to large-sized apples, slightly oval in shape.
They have dark red skin with green around the stem end.
Inside, they have crisp, pale yellow, juicy flesh, with a slightly tart taste.
The apples are ready to pick mid-September.
Cooking...
Duchess of Oldenburg Apples
Duchess of Oldenburg are round, medium-sized apples with pale yellow skin with bright red flushes.
The flesh is yellowish, crisp, tender, and juicy.
When fully-ripe they are a good fresh-eating apple; when picked just before ripeness, they are...
Dumelow's Seedling Apples
Dumelow's Seedling are large, somewhat flattened apples.
They have smooth, green skin ripening to pale yellow, with an orange flush.
Early October harvest.
Cooking Tips
Dumelow's Seedling Apples are a bit too tart for fresh eating, so they...
Fall Limbertwig Apples
Fall Limbertwig are medium-sized apples, with pale yellow skin with a red flush.
Inside, they have tender, juicy white flesh with a somewhat tart flavour.
Sources
Downing, Andrew Jackson and Charles Downing. The fruits and fruit-trees of America....
Fall Pippin Apples
Fall Pippin are large-sized, somewhat oval apples.
They have thin, transparent yellow skin, occasionally with dull orange flush.
Inside, they have white to off-white, juicy, tender, aromatic flesh.
The apples ripen August / September, or mid-October,...
Fall Red Apples
Fall Red Apples grow up to 3.5 inches (9 cm) wide, with dull to bright red skin.
Inside, the off-white flesh is slightly coarse, with a taste that has a bit of tartness to it.
The apples ripen in September.
Cooking Tips
For fresh-eating, cooking,...
Flower of Kent Apples
Flower of Kent are large-sized apples with green skin.
Their flavour is not particularly noted.
Flower of Kent Apples are used for cooking.
History Notes
Urban myth has it that this is the apple that hit Sir Isaac Newton on the head and caused...
Gala Supreme Apples
Gala Supreme are medium to large-sized apples.
They have tough, chewy yellow skin covered with red stripes. The skin can be russeted and have large lenticels on it. When the apples are fully mature, the skin can get greasy.
Though the apples have...
Galloway Pippin Apples
Galloway Pippin are large-sized apples.
They have yellow skin with some russet spots.
The flesh has a pronounced, sharp flavour.
Ready for late September harvest.
Cooking Tips
Some say best used for cooking, and ideally before Christmas.
Holds...
Gano Apples
Gano Apples have pale yellow skin, almost completely flushed with dark purplish red by the time they are fully ripe.
The flesh is off-white, firm, crisp and juicy, with a tangy, rich flavour.
The apples ripen in late September.
Some have thought...
Gloria Mundi Apples
Gloria Mundi apples are very large, growing up to a weight of 16 to 24 oz (450 to 675g.) They are round, with uneven sides.
They have greenish-yellow skin flushed with faint bronze.
Inside, the flesh is somewhat coarse and crisp, and is dry rather...
Goldrush Apple
Goldrush Apples are medium-sized apples. The thin, tender skin is greenish-bronzey yellow at harvest, turning deeper yellow during storage. Sometimes the skin will have a red blush on the side exposed to the sun, and sometimes it will develop russeting.
Inside,...
Gragg Apples
Gragg are medium-sized, slightly oval apples.
They have waxy, greenish-yellow skin striped with red.
Inside, they have tough, juicy, greenish-white flesh.
October harvest.
Cooking Tips
For cooking.
Storage Hints
Stores well.
History...
Gravenstein Apples
Gravenstein Apples have thin, waxy, bright yellow skin with red or orange blushes or strips.
Inside, the fine-textured flesh is yellowish-white, crisp and fragrant. The taste has a good balance between sweetness and tartness.
The tree is grown...
Grimes Golden Apples
Grimes Golden are medium to large-sized apples with a tough yellow skin.
They are round, but flattened.
The fragrant flesh is crisp, tender, and juicy, with a sharp tart flavour.
The tree blooms late.
Grimes Golden Apples are good for applesauce...
Haralson Apples
Haralson are medium-sized apples, growing up to 2 ½ inches (6 cm) wide.
They have yellow skin striped with red, and occasional russeting when there has been a lot of rainfall, or high humidity.
Inside, the white flesh is crisp, juicy and firm, and...
Hazen Apples
Hazen are large-sized apples with a squarish shape and dark red skin.
Inside, the flesh is greenish-yellow, firm, juicy, and slightly coarse. It has a mild, very sweet taste, with a bit of tartness.
The fruit ripens late August / early September.
The...
Hibernal Apples
Hibernal are large-sized apples.
They have yellow skin with red splashes and white dots.
Inside, the yellowish flesh is juicy, crisp and tender, with a very tart taste.
Cooking Tips
Good for cooking and drying.
History Notes
Hibernal Apples...
Horse Apples
Horse Apples are large-sized apples with thick, bright-yellow skin, sometimes with red blushes.
They have coarse yellow but tender flesh inside.
The tree is a regular bearer every year, with apples ready to harvest starting in late summer (in...
Howgate Wonder Apples
Howgate Wonders are sweet apples, and quite large, up to 6 inches wide (15 cm.)
The skin is greenish-yellow background with red patches.
Cooking Tips
When first picked it is a cooking apple, but can be used for eating fresh after a few months...
Ida Red Apples
Ida Red Apples
© Denzil Green
Ida Red Apples have shiny, bright skin that is nearly all red.
The white, crisp flesh inside is fragrant and juicy with a pronounced flavour.
The tree is a good annual fruit producer.
Cooking Tips
Ida Reds ...
Jersey Mac Apple
Jersey Mac Apple
© Paula Trites
Jersey Mac Apples are medium to large-sized apples 2 ¾ to 3 inches wide (7 to 7.5 cm.)
The apples are very round, and have red skin with yellow patches.
The greenish-white flesh inside is firm, fragrant ...
July Tart Apples
July Tart are medium-sized, slightly oval-shaped apples.
The light-green skin ripens to pale yellow.
Inside, they have firm, tart, good-flavoured white flesh.
The flesh holds its colour well when cut open.
The fruit ripens in July / August.
Cooking...
Kandil Sinap Apples
Kandil Sinap are tall, narrow, medium-sized apples.
They have pale yellow skin with a bright pinkish-red flush on the side that got the sun.
Inside, the white flesh is finely-textured, crisp, and juicy, with good flavour.
The fruit bruises...
Keswick Codlin Apples
Keswick Codlin are large-sized, ribbed apples with a somewhat oval, uneven shape and tart flesh.
They have pale greenish-yellow skin, occasionally with a faint red blush on part of it, and some russetting on the top.
The tree bears abundantly,...
King Luscious Apples
King Luscious Apples have greenish-yellow skin, flushed with deep red and darker red stripes.
Inside, they have off-white, crisp, juicy, finely-textured flesh with good flavour.
The tree is compact and, blooms late.
The apple is popular in...
Lady Apple
Lady Apples are small with a somewhat flattened appearance.
The shiny skin is bright red and very flavourful.
Inside, the white, finely-textured flesh is crisp and juicy.
These fragrant apples are very popular at Christmas for use in wreaths...
Lakeland Apples
Lakeland are medium-sized apples with dark red skin.
Inside they have finely-textured, juicy, yellow flesh, occassionally stained with red.
The taste has a slight bite to it.
Late September harvest in the Northern Hemisphere.
Cooking Tips...
Lane's Prince Albert Apples
Lane's Prince Albert are large-sized apples with yellow skin that have an orangey-red flush over it.
The crisp, juicy flesh is white, with just a hint of green in it.
Cooking Tips
Lane's Prince Albert Apples are cooking apples and for the most...
Lemon Pippin Apples
Lemon Pippin are small to medium-sized apples.
They have yellow skin with greenish and white dots on it.
Inside, the flesh is crisp and sharp-tasting.
In England, the fruit is ready for harvest in early October.
Cooking Tips
For cooking...
Liberty Apples
Liberty are small to medium-sized apples.
They have yellow skin mostly covered with shiny dark-red.
Inside, the off-white flesh is crisp, tender, and juicy. The flavour is a good balance of sweetness and tartness.
The tree is a heavy bearer;...
Lodi Apple
Lodi Apple trees grow between 10 and 25 feet tall (3 to 7 ½ metres), and produce apples ready for an early harvest from mid-July to August.
The medium-sized apples have thick, yellowish-green skin.
Inside, the white flesh is tender, soft and...
Lord Wolesely Apples
Lord Wolesely are large-sized apples with slight ribbing.
They have yellow skin with brownish-red flushes on it.
Inside, the apples have crisp, juicy, greenish-white flesh with a somewhat tart taste.
Late harvest.
Cooking Tips
For cooking.
Storage...
Lubsk Queen Apples
Lubsk Queen are medium to large-sized apples with pale, almost white skin covered with pink and red flushes.
Inside, they have very white, firm, juicy flesh with a tart flavour.
Cooking Tips
The fruit ripens late August / early September.
Substitutes...
Lyman's Large Summer Apples
Lyman's Large Summer Apples are large-sized, with green skin ripening to yellow.
Inside, the flesh is firm, crisp, and juicy.
It has the tangy, full taste of an autumn apple, though it's an early apple.
Early August harvest.
Cooking Tips
For...
Mattamuskeet Apples
Mattamuskeet are medium-sized, slightly conical apples.
They have tough, greenish-yellow skin flushed with tones of dull dark red or rusty red.
Inside, they have firm, juicy, pale yellow flesh.
The flavour is tart at first, but improves in...
Milwaukee Apples
Milwaukee are large-sized apples, with yellowish-green skin with bright red stripes and blushes.
They have a slightly tart flavour.
The tree starts producing fruit when it is young, and is a reliable annual bearer.
Cooking Tips
For cooking...
Norfolk Beefing
Norfolk Beefing are medium to large-sized apples that are round, though slightly flattened. The apples are about 3 inches wide x 2 ½ inches tall (7.5 cm x 6.5 cm.)
The skin has a greenish-yellow background with dull red blushes and stripes, which...
Northern Spy Apples
Northern Spy
© Denzil Green
The Northern Spy has smooth, thin skin that is a bright, dark red with yellow striping.
Inside, the finely-grained flesh is crisp, juicy and fragrant. It is white, or sometimes yellowish.
It is an all-purpose ...
Old Fashioned Limbertwig Apples
Old Fashioned Limbertwig are medium to large-sized apples, with tough greenish-yellow skin with red flushes.
The tree has weeping branches typical of a Limbertwig.
The fruit ripens late October.
Cooking Tips
For pies, jelly and cider.
Storage...
Parkland Apples
Parkland are small to medium-sized apples (up to 3 inches / 7 ½ cm wide.)
Their skin is greenish-yellow with red stripes.
Inside, they have off-white, crisp, juicy flesh with green tinges, with a somewhat tart but otherwise ordinary flavour.
The...
Peasgood Nonsuch Apples
Peasgood Nonsuch are large-sized apples; they can weigh over 16 oz (450 g.)
They have pale yellowish-green skin with orangish-red stripes, and occasional russetting.
Inside, they are tender and juicy, with sweet taste and good flavour.
The...
Pumpkin Sweet Apples
Pumpkin Sweet are large-sized, ribbed apples.
They have tough, smooth, pale green skin that ripens to yellowish-orange with patches of russet, and occasionally a brownish-red flush.
Inside, they have firm, crisp, juicy yellow flesh with a sweet...
Québec Belle Apple
An older variety of apple, pretty much reserved for home gardeners, certainly absent from grocery stores in Québec today.
Sprung from Northern Spy, and similar to Northern Spy in flavour and usage.
A hardy tree that is good down to -50 F (-45 ...
Red Gravenstein
Like Gravenstein apples, but with a red skin. Appeared as a sport in Scandinavia around 1960.
The apples on Red Gravenstein trees don't all ripen at the same time.
Redfield Apples
Redfield are medium-sized apples.
They have waxy, pink to dark red skin with some russetting, and inside, dark, slightly dry red flesh.
The fruit ripens in October in New York State.
The tree is very winter hardy, and is a reliable bearer,...
Redwell Apples
Redwell are large-sized apples with yellow skin covered in bright red.
Inside, they have off-white, crisp flesh with mild but good flavour.
The fruit ripens early October.
The tree is a reliable bearer.
Cooking Tips
For fresh-eating, baking...
Rhode Island Greening Apples
Rhode Island Greenings are large, round apples with flattened ends. The waxy skin is dark green, turning yellowish-green as it ripens, with a bronze hue when fully ripened.
Inside, the yellowish-green flesh is green and juicy.
This apple has a...
Richelieu Apple
Richelieu Apples are medium-sized apples with light-green, glossy skin blushed with red, and mottled with white dots and light russeting.
The white flesh is crisp, juicy and high in sugar.
The tree bears well each year.
Cooking Tips
Can be...
Rome Beauty Apples
These are large apples with firm flesh that are harvested in the late fall.
They are popular on the eastern seaboard of North America. They are usually very affordable apples.
Cooking Tips
Rome Beauty Apples can be eaten, but because they have...
Rouville Apple
Rouville Apples have pale, greenish-yellow skin mostly covered by red blushes. Inside, the coarse flesh is juicy and a pale cream-colour.
It was bred to be both an eating and cooking fruit. The apples have a high sugar and tannin content (attention...
Roxbury Russet Apples
Roxbury Russet are medium-sized apples that are roundish but unevenly shaped, and somewhat lumpy looking. The skin is dull green with mottled brown russeting covering ⅓ to ½ the skin. There will be a bronzy-red blush sometimes on the side where it...
Royal Limbertwig Apples
Royal Limbertwig are large-sized apples, sometimes slightly conical.
They have greenish-yellow skin almost entirely covered with a dull red flush, and dark red stripes.
Inside, they have finely-textured, firm, tender, juicy yellow flesh, which...
Shenandoah Apples
Shenandoah are slightly oval, medium-sized apples.
They have greenish skin ripening to yellow, mostly covered with a red flush.
The flesh is aromatic, crisp, firm and juicy (though some growers report that the flesh can occasionally be somewhat...
Striped Beefing Apples
Related to Norfolk Biffin Apples. Has crimson stripes. Cooks up better than Norfolk Beefing, but doesn't store as well.
History Notes
Found in 1794 in garden of William Crowe, Norwich, Norfolk, England. Not really grown much until after 1850.
...
Summer Limbertwig Apples
Summer Limbertwig are medium-sized apples.
They have bright, pale yellow skin covered with pink and red flushes, and patches of russet.
Inside, they have tender, juicy white flesh which is aromatic, with a tart taste.
The tree has weeping branches,...
Suncrisp Apples
Suncrisp Apples are about 3 inches (7 ½ cm) wide, and will weigh about 8 oz (225g.)
They have dull yellow, almost orangey skin with a red flush. There can be some russeting at the stem end.
The flesh inside is yellowish white, juicy, and a very...
Sunny Brook Apples
Sunny Brook are medium-sized apples.
They have yellow skin covered by bright red.
The taste is a balance of sweet and tart.
The tree starts to produce fruit while still young, and is very hardy, but it is not always a reliable bearer.
Cooking...
Surprise Apples
Surprise Apples have pale, dull greenish-yellow skin, and off-white flesh stained red under the skin.
They have a tart taste with little sweetness.
Cooking Tips
For cooking.
History Notes
Surprise Apples possibly originated in Turkey.
Some...
Tolman Sweet Apples
Tolman Sweet apples are medium to large-sized apples.
They have pale greenish-yellow skin with some light russetting and often with a faint red blush.
Beach's "Apples of New York" says":
"Skin tough, often marked by a suture line extending out from...
Turley Apples
Turley are medium to large-sized apples with green skin mostly covered with a dull-red.
Inside, they have firm, juicy off-white flesh tinged with green, which is aromatic with a tart taste.
The fruit ripens in early October.
The tree's pollen...
Twenty Ounce Apples
Twenty Ounce Apples have thick, tough greenish-yellow skin flushed with deep red.
Inside, they have coarse, tender, juicy off-white flesh with a tart taste.
The tree starts bearing fruit while still young.
The apples ripen in September or October,...
Twenty Ounce Pippin Apples
Twenty Ounce Pippin Apples are similar in almost all respects to "Twenty Ounce Apples", including size, coloration and tree habits, but they are considered to be of lesser quality both for cooking and eating.
History Notes
Twenty Ounce Pippin Apples...
Vandevere Apples
Vandevere are medium to large-sized apples, with yellow skin covered with flushes of pale red.
Inside, they have tender, firm (even hard), juicy yellowish flesh with a sweet taste. The flesh is so firm that one of the apple's names became "Grindstone."
The...
Viking Apples
Viking are large to very large-sized apples.
They have glossy, smooth, green skin more than half covered with a dark red, almost purple flush.
Inside, they have finely-textured, semi-firm, off-white flesh with a somewhat watery core. The flesh...
Waltana Apples
Waltana Apples are medium to large-sized apples with green skin with a red flush on it.
Inside, they have firm, crisp, juicy flesh with a sweet taste.
The fruit ripens from October to November, depending upon locale. They are best harvested after...
Warner's King Apples
Warner's King Apples have greenish-yellow skins and a crisp, juicy fleshwith a sharp, tart flavour.
Warner's King Apples are good for cooking and making juice.
When cooked, the flesh gets fluffy.
History Notes
Warner's King Apple is thought...
Wealthy Apple
Wealthy Apples
© Denzil Green
Wealthy Apples have pale, yellowish-green skin with bright red flushes.
Inside, the apple's flesh is coarse and soft, and very fragrant.
Cooking Tips
In season, it is good as a fresh-eating apple. It makes ...
Westland Apples
Westland are large-sized apples, up to 3 inches (7 ½ cm) wide.
They have pale yellowish-green skin flushed with pale red.
Inside, they have juicy, off-white flesh with a tart taste.
The tree is very hardy.
The fruit ripens in August. The...
White Limbertwig Apples
White Limbertwig Apples are conical-shaped, with pale yellowish-green skin.
The fruit ripens in October.
Cooking Tips
Good for apple butter.
Wolf River Apples
Wolf River Apples are very large apples, often weighing 1 pound (450g) or more, ranging anywhere from grapefruit to small cantaloupe size. The shape is often somewhat irregular.
The pale, dull-red skin has patches of pale yellow. The coarsely-textured...
Yellow Bellflower Apples
Yellow Bellflower are medium to large-sized apples. They are tall, sometimes lopsided, and often ribbed.
They have lemon-yellow skin with white dots or some russetting, and a pinkish blush on the sides of the apples where they got a lot of sun.
Inside,...
Yellow Transparent Apples
Yellow Transparent are medium-sized apples with smooth yellow skin.
Inside, they have tender, juicy, finely-textured, firm white flesh which is aromatic.
In the American South, the apples ripen in late June, early July.
The fruit bruises easily.
The...
York Imperial Apple
York Imperials are medium to large-sized apples. The skin is light red, with patches of greenish-yellow dotted with russetting. Inside, the flesh is yellow, coarse but crisp, and juicy with a mildly tart flavour. The core of the apple is smaller than...