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A cooking apple is an apple that is used primarily for cooking rather than eating fresh. Cooking apples are larger, and can be less sweet and more sour than eating varieties. Some varieties have a firm flesh that doesn't break down too much when cooked. Only the British grow a large range of apples specifically for cooking. For example the French tend to use eating apples for cooking purposes. Some apples are dual-purpose, often becoming sweeter and softer under storage.

Cultivars can be divided into apples which are cooked whole (or in large segments) in the oven and become soft and fluffy and those which retain their shape. These apples are often aromatic (e.g. Newton Wonder or Peasgood Nonesuch). Other variety such as Bramley or Golden Noble are cut into small segments for pies, tarts etc. Bramley is by far the most popular cooking apple in the UK, as it grows easily to a large size, keeps well and cooks well. However the flavour is sharp and simple and it has limited aroma compared to, for example, Golden Noble.

Apples can be baked in an oven and served with custard or put into an apple pie or apple crumble. In the UK apples are boiled and mashed and served as apple sauce with roast pork.

A baked apple is one that has been baked in an oven until it has become soft. The core is usually removed and often stuffed with fruits, brown sugar, raisins, or cinnamon.

Excess

Often people have cooking apple trees and are swamped with apples in September. They often give the apples away to anyone who wants them, sometimes by taking them to work in plastic bags and leaving them on the kitchen table. Care should be taken when preparing "free" apples as they often have grubs (worms) inside.

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Common cooking apple cultivars

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Custard is a range of preparations based on milk and eggs, thickened with heat. Most commonly, it refers to a dessert or dessert sauce, but custard bases are also used for quiches and other savoury foods.
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apple pie is a fruit pie (or tart) in which the principal filling ingredient is apples (Cooking Apples). Pastry is generally used top-and-bottom, making a double-crust pie, the upper crust of which may be a pastry lattice woven of strips; exceptions are deep-dish apple pie
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A crumble is a dish of British origin containing stewed fruit topped with a crumbly mixture of fat (usually butter), flour, and sugar. The crumble is baked in an oven until the topping is crisp.
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Motto
"Dieu et mon droit" [2]   (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
"God Save the Queen" [3]
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Applesauce (or apple sauce) is a purée that is made from stewed and mashed apples. It can use peeled or unpeeled apples and a variety of spices or additives such as cinnamon. Applesauce can be fine or coarse textured, and may include large chunks of apple.
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Pork is the culinary name for meat from the domestic pig (Sus scrofa), often specifically the fresh meat but can be used as an all-inclusive term. It is one of the most commonly consumed meats worldwide.
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Baking is the technique of prolonged cooking of food by dry heat acting by conduction, and not by radiation, normally in an oven, but also in hot ashes, or on hot stones.[1] It is primarily used for the preparation of bread, cakes, pastries and pies, tarts, and quiches.
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oven is an enclosed compartment for heating, baking or drying. It is most commonly used in cooking and pottery. Two common kinds of modern ovens are gas ovens and electric ovens. Ovens used in pottery are also known as kilns.
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fruit has different meanings depending on context. In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant. In many species, the fruit incorporates the ripened ovary and surrounding tissues.
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Brown sugar is a sucrose sugar product with a distinctive brown color due to the presence of molasses. It is either an unrefined or partially refined soft sugar consisting of sugar crystals with some residual molasses content or produced by the addition of molasses to refined white
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Raisins are dried grapes. They are produced in many regions of the world, such as the United States, Australia, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Greece, Turkey, Iran, Togo, Jamaica, South Africa, Southern and Eastern Europe. Raisins may be eaten raw or used in cooking and baking.
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C. verum

Binomial name
Cinnamomum verum
J.Presl

Cassia ("Chinese cinnamon") is also commonly called (and sometimes sold as) cinnamon.

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The Bramley apple (Malus domestica 'Bramley's Seedling') is a cultivar of apple which is often eaten cooked. Raw, most people find its tarty flavour too strong, and it is either loved or hated. Once cooked, however, it has a lighter flavour.
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Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death on 6 May 1910.
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Granny Smith, or green apple, is an apple cultivar. It originated in Australia in 1868 from a chance seedling propagated by Maria Smith, where the name "Granny Smith" comes from.
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Gravenstein (Danish: Gråsten-Æble) is a variety of apple native to Gråsten in South Jutland, Denmark. The variety was discovered in 1669 as a chance seedling, although there is some evidence that the variety originated in Italy and traveled north.
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James Grieve is an old variety of apple. It gets its name from its breeder, James Grieve, who raised the apple from pollination of a Pott’s Seedling with a Cox's Orange Pippin apple in Edinburgh, Scotland some time before 1893.
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The Rhode Island Greening is an old, historic American apple variety and the official apple of the state of Rhode Island. It originated in 1650 at Green’s End, Newport, Rhode Island. It was one of the most popular apples grown in New York in the nineteenth century.
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The Jonathan apple is a medium-sized apple, sweet and full of acidity, with a tough but smooth skin. It is closely related to the Esopus Spitzenburg apple.

The Jonathan apple is believed to have originated from an Esopus Spitzenburg seedling in 1826 from the farm of Philip
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Gala is a cultivar of apple, with a mild and sweet flavor.

Appearance and flavour

Gala apples are small and are usually red with a portion being greenish or yellow-green, vertically striped.
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McIntosh Red (McIntosh, Mac) is an apple cultivar with red and green skin, a tart flavor, and tender white flesh. It becomes ripe in late September. It is traditionally the most popular cultivar in New England, well known for the pink sauce unpeeled McIntoshes make.
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Malus
Tourn. ex L.

Species

Malus angustifolia - Southern Crab
Malus baccata - Siberian Crabapple
Malus bracteata
Malus brevipes
Malus coronaria - Sweet Crabapple

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