Peasgood Nonsuch

[Raymond Blockley]

I've been offered the fruit from a couple of very large and laden Peasgood Nonsuch trees a couple of miles away.

 

I appreciate that this is a dual-purpose culinary/dessert apple and I would not consider making cider from it on it's own, but wondered if anyone had any experience of using it in a blend for an "eastern counties" type cider?

I am assuming it is not as acid as Bramley and wondered if anyone had any idea of best picking / pressing times?  Listed as mid-September, season given Sept-Dec.

 

As it's geographical origins are fairly local to me, I'd like to experiment with it.

 

Cheers.
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Ray B

[skidbro...@tiscali.co.uk]

Hi Ray

We have about ten peasgood nonsuch and have had no problem mixing them in with the other fruit. They are not ready here yet but will be early. As with alot of these apples they only eat really well towards the end of their season but press well with plenty of fibre.

Happy milling

Guy

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[Carl LeClair]

Ray,

I hope you will give this apple a go this season? Would be interesting
to hear
of your opinion and how your blend goes using it! I have looked at
this apple from
reference books ( Sanders "The Apple Book") and ( Morgan & Richards
"The
Book of Apples" ) which I read Stephen Hayes reviews of these books
and found
through the internet! These books both speak very highly of it's
flavor and culinary quality's!

Hoping you all will not ban me from posting again with this comment?,
It would be an interesting
part of the Workshop's Pomona section to have good information
available about some of the
other apples ( cooker's & eater's ) that can be used to make
interesting blend's of cider. I live
in an area of such large quantity's of these type apples, hoping when
funds permit me to process
on my own to be able to experiment using them.

Regards,

Carl

[Raymond Blockley]

Carl,

 

Yes, I'll definitely be giving them a go. I'm willing to have a go with most apples, no matter what or where I find them. It doesn't always work out, but as Guy uses them in his Skidbrooke ciders (which I rate very highly) I'm hopeful that I can blend them in. Half (three-quarters?) of the fun for me is experimenting with apples to see what pops out the other end.  

 

Cheers, Ray

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[greg l.]

I have some peasgood nonsuch here. We planted one with our first
orchard planting, but that one was defoliated by grasshoppers and
died. Years later we tried again and that one is now doing better but
only a couple of years old. In the meantime there were a few neglected
apple trees by a ruin at the back of our property, probably dating to
between the wars. I grafted one tree onto a seedling and planted into
our main garden, was very surprised when it produced these enormous
apples. There was the peasgood nonsuch we had always wanted, we had
one all along but the apples were so small due to the poor soil at the
neglected orchard we didn't know what it was. So now we have 3 of
them, but they ripen so late the fruit fly get into them and they go
rotten. Still, I will be interested to see how your cider goes, Ray.
The apples are worth growing just for their enormous size, I don't
know how easy they will be to mill.

Greg

On Aug 10, 5:34 pm, Raymond Blockley <raymond_block...@sky.com> wrote:
> Carl,
>
> Yes, I'll definitely be giving them a go. I'm willing to have a go with most
> apples, no matter what or where I find them. It doesn't always work out, but
> as Guy uses them in his Skidbrooke ciders (which I rate very highly) I'm
> hopeful that I can blend them in. Half (three-quarters?) of the fun for me
> is experimenting with apples to see what pops out the other end.
>
> Cheers, Ray
>

[skidbro...@tiscali.co.uk]

Hello Greg et al

We chop the big apples in fish boxes with a spade immediately before milling. The mill doesnot like whole big apples bur as soon as the skin is broken it can gobble them up.

If you think that peasgood nonsuch are on the large side you should see some of our Howgate wonder. They would have worried Dr Quatermass!

Best wishes

Guy

[greg l.]

On the other side of the coin, there is an old Irish pub up the road
from me, the same family has lived there for 130 years. The owner
assured me he had some heritage apple trees, grown by his family many
years ago, so I grafted them onto rootstock thinking I would get
something interesting.

One of them turned out to be a granny smith, at least I didn't already
have one.

Greg

On Aug 10, 8:39 pm, "skidbrookecy...@tiscali.co.uk"

> > > reference books ( Sanders "The Apple Book") and ( Morgan &amp; Richards

> > > "The
> > > Book of Apples" ) which I read Stephen Hayes reviews of these books
> > > and found
> > > through the internet! These books both speak very highly of it's
> > > flavor and culinary quality's!
>
> > > Hoping you all will not ban me from posting again with this comment?,
> > > It would be an interesting
> > > part of the Workshop's Pomona section to have good information
> > > available about some of the

> > > other apples ( cooker's &amp; eater's ) that can be used to make