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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Title: Re: [NAFEX] Re: Bramley - Are the English crazy?

Here in western Oregon, with a climate similar to England, Bramley is a really good cooking apple that keeps very well if you pick it  green.  If you wait for it to get full color, with stripes, it's keeping ability goes down.  For a freshly picked cooking apple I would rather have Gravenstein, but a well stored Bramley is a very decent cooker for applesauce.
> -Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, more, plus word on The Grape Grower at http://www.bunchgrapes.com

From: Rodney Eveland <Reveland@WYOMING.com>
> Reply-To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 17:11:56 -0700
> To: Nafex <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [NAFEX] Re: Bramley - Are the English crazy?

> According to websites in England the Bramley is "God's personal gift to
> them".
>
> http://www.bramleyapples.co.uk/
>
> And I found another website where the English did a taste test of Apple
> pie and Bramley (what else) won. So perhaps it's best qualities come out
> in certain climates. They do not claim it to be a good fresh eating
> apple. I unfortunately live in a very different cliimate. Zone 3