Description
Widely grown in Scotland and Lancashire in the 1900s. this is a very good cooking apple for northern gardens. Very hardy, and produces heavy crops of conical yellow-green fruit which are often prominently ribbed, Britchetts were know to have been grown in the Lyth valley, Cumbria as far back as the 1780s. The fruit is of rich sub-acid flavour, and keeps it shape when cooked.
"Noted by Hilary Wilson for its suitability for the difficult conditions in the damp fells and dales of Cumbria, and found frequently in northern and Scottish restoration projects, Scotch Bridget was known to Hogg (c. 1860) as a Scottish apple that was widely grown 'in the neighbourhood of Lancaster'. It is second only to the Bramley in a list of the ten most frequently found in the old orchards of Arnside and Silverdale on the borders of Cumbria and Lancashire. A medium-sized, broad-based, conical apple, ribbed and crowned, the smooth skin becomes golden yellow, prettily striped red, sometimes almost completely covered on the sunny side. Though considered insipid in the south, it obviously develops more acidity, and therefore more flavour, in the north, where the tender white flesh is found to be juicy and rich." © Lin Hawthorne - 'The Northern Pomona'.
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