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Acme Apples

Acme Apples are large, irregularly-shaped but round apples with a smooth, yellow skin with a red to dark red flush. Inside, the yellow flesh is crisp, juicy and full-flavoured. The tree bears fruit heavily, but only every other year. Cooking Tips For fresh-eating. Storage Hints Acme Apples can be stored up to a few months….

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Coe’s Golden Drop Apples

Coe’s Golden Drop are small-sized, somewhat flattened apples. They have yellow skin with a dark, bright red flush. Inside, they have yellowish, firm, crisp, juicy flesh with good sweet flavour. Cooking Tips For fresh-eating. History Notes Coe’s Golden Drop Apples were known in Essex, England, by 1842.

Colchester Oysters

Colchester Oysters are Oysters that grew up in the area of Colchester, England. Species-wise, they are the type of oysters called Native Oysters (aka “Flat Oysters” aka Ostrea edulis.) They have salty tasting flesh. They will have been raised in the estuary area of the Blackwater and Colne rivers, and in tidal salt-marsh creeks and…

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Comfrey

Common Comfrey © Denzil Green Comfrey is related to the herb Borage and to the flowers called “Forget-me-nots.” A perennial herb that is frost and drought resistant, it can grow over 3 feet (1 metre) tall. It produces bell-shaped flowers of various colours, depending on the variety. When the leaves are young they are bitter,…

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Discovery Apples

Discovery Apples are grown in the south-east of England and in small quantities in British Columbia, Canada. The skin is pale yellowish-green, mostly covered by bright red flushes and occasionally, pale yellow dots. Inside the apple is juicy and moderately sweet with firm, crisp, white flesh, occasionally with pink flushes in it on the side…

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George Cave Apples

George Cave are small-sized apples, with yellowish-green skin. As it ripens, the yellow becomes more pronounced, and the skin is flushed with red on one half, and with red touches on the rest. The creamy-white flesh is finely-textured, crisp, aromatic and juicy with a sharp, mildly-sweet taste with a balancing tartness. In East Anglia, England,…

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Maldon Salt

Maldon Salt © Denzil Green Maldon Salt is an English sea-salt. It comes in large, thin, uneven, crunchy salt flakes that have a very clean, pure salt taste. It is meant to be a finishing salt, used at the table in small amounts, rather than in cooking. You might be tempted to want to put…

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Monarch Apples

Monarch are large-sized apples with yellow, slightly greasy skin with light red blush and orangish stripes. The soft flesh inside is aromatic but has a tart taste. The tree can be pollinated by another Monarch apple tree, but it does tend to be a biennial bearer. Cooking Tips For fresh-eating. Does not hold shape when…

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Pearl Apples

Pearl Apples have yellow skin covered with red blushes. Inside, they have aromatic, crisp flesh with a sweet taste. The fruit ripens late September / early October in southern England. Cooking Tips For fresh-eating. History Notes Pearl Apples were developed by W.P. Seabrook of Boreham, Essex, England from a cross between Worcester and Rival apples….

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