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

CooksInfo

  • Home
  • Encyclopaedia
  • Kitchenware
  • Recipes
  • Food Calendar
menu icon
go to homepage
search icon
Homepage link
  • Recipes
  • Encyclopaedia
  • Kitchenware
  • Food Calendar
×
Home » Fruit » Hard Fruit » Apples » Cider Apples » Smith’s Cider Apples

Smith’s Cider Apples

Smith’s Cider are medium to large-sized apples.

They have tough, smooth, yellow skin, flushed with pale red and whitish dots, and russetting at the bottom.

Inside, they have white to yellowish, finely-textured, tender, crisp, juicy flesh.

Cooking Tips

For cider, or fresh-eating.

Storage Hints

Does not store well.

History Notes

Smith’s Cider Apples originated in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA.

Grafts were brought to Frederick County, Virginia during the American Revolution.

The apple was first recorded in 1817 by William Coxe of Philadelphia in his “A View of the Cultivation of Fruit Trees.”

Literature & Lore

“NO. 52. CIDER APPLE.

The apple propagated under this name, is highly esteemed as a most productive and excellent cider fruit, in the county of Bucks, and the contiguous parts of Pennsylvania : the size is middling, its appearance resembles the Vandervere the skin is smooth, a lively streaked red it is a pleasant table fruit, but is chiefly used for cider. The tree is tall, the limbs shoot upwards ; it is sometimes loaded with fruit beyond any other tree in our orchards, requiring great care to prevent the branches being destroyed by the weight of fruit. It ripens in October and November.” — Coxe, William. “A View of the Cultivation of Fruit Trees.” Philadelphia: M. Carey & Son , 1817. Page 131.

Other names

AKA: Cider Apple Apples, Cider Apples, Popular Bluff Apples

This page first published: Oct 7, 2006 · Updated: Oct 5, 2020.

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 © 2022· 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

    Today is

  • Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Day
    Zucchini

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.