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I saw a newspaper report yeaterday which claimed the UK is the only
country in the world to grow an apple variety (Bramley) specifically for
cooking. Does anyone know if this is true?

Janet
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Many reports and articles related to apple growing state that the UK is
the only country to actually grow apples specifically for cooking. I have
always doubted this but have seen it many times and repeated in Google
searches. Foreigners are a peculiar lot!!

Surely the issue is that British 'cooking apples' cook down to a paste
whereas other apples don't. Non-british recipes expect apples to stay
in pieces rather than becoming a paste.
Chris Green

In Holland they make applecompot from Goudrenetten (no idea what that is in
English)
These are eating apples but cook down to a mush, much like Brambley's.

Jenny