58. Royal Turk - Cooking Apple
Season : Early - Harvest August thru to September.
The fruit is ribbed and usually distictly five-sided. However, the fruits are irregular, and can be lopsided, even slightly concave.
The skin is pale green with little or no russetting, although ‘scabs’ are often present.
The name possibly relates to the pronounced ‘crown’.
Good for baking
An early cooker from Churchdown, Glos
Malus Domestica ‘Royal Turk’
Collected for propagation In Gloucestershire Apple Collection, Dymock from Brookfield, Churchdown - the only known source.
The Holford family have been three generations (since 1904) on the farm where this apple grows. The fruit is ripe at the end of August but may still be falling at the end of September. Miss Holford describes this as an early cooker. She bakes it with brown sugar and it
is eaten with cream.