64. Annie Elizabeth - Cooking Apple
Season : Relatively Late - Harvest October
Pollination : Self fertile. Group D
A popular, old-fashioned English cooking apple culinary apple, which keeps its shape when cooked.
Annie Elizabeth apple was raised by Samuel Greatorex in Leicester, UK c 1857 and named after his baby daughter. - It is believed to have been a Blenheim Orange seedling.
Introduced by Harrison's of Leicester c 1868 and awarded a First Class Certificate by the RHS 1868. A popular and widely grown variety in Victorian England and grown commercially until the 1930's.
It remains a popular garden variety.
Malus domestica ‘Annie Elizabeth’
An attractive late season cooker, it keeps it’s shape during cooking, giving chunky apple pies, and is also good for baking.
In addition, the blossom is most attractive with a dark purple-y colour as it opens.
The large, round, regular shaped apples have a green/yellow skin with an orange/red flush and red stripes. The skin is shiny and tough, turning greasy with keeping.
The flesh is white and , sharp tasting but not overly so, the flavour being quite light and relatively sweet for a cooking apple requiring little added sugar.
It also keeps well.