Applevariety
Cure
A cooking apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, oblong-conical in shape; mildly tart and bitter. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Normandy, France
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Texture
- fine, hard,
- Flavour
- subacid, slightly bitter
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed dull orange-brown and red, faint stripesSkin texture pinkish scarf skinBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- cream
- Shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex to straight
- Size
- largeFruit width 83 mmFruit height 76 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed on bodyRusset pattern patches of russet
Origin & family
Where Cure began
Recorded origin
Normandy
France
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid, slightly bitter
- ribbing
- ribbed on body
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic, convex to straight
- fruit width
- 83 mm
- over colour
- flushed dull orange-brown and red, faint stripes
- russet type
- patches of russet
- flesh colour
- cream
- fruit height
- 76 mm
- skin texture
- pinkish scarf skin
- flesh texture
- fine, hard,
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.