Bramley Cooking Apples

Though there are many, many cooking apples, only Bramleys seem to go so fluffy in the oven and it’s one of nature’s great synchronistic gifts that they’re ready just as short days call for warm puddings! If you fancy a change from crumble try an ‘Apple Snow’ or core and bake them stuffed with mincemeat.  

The first Bramley's Seedling grew from pips planted by one Mary Ann Brailsford in Nottinghamshire in 1809. It’s unlikely she ever actually ate one though, as it wasn’t until a butcher named Matthew Bramley bought the house and allowed a local nurseryman to take cuttings from the tree (with the proviso they bear his name) that they began to be cultivated throughout the country.