Apple - Early Victoria - Cooker

Early Victoria - Cooking Apple

Sometimes called Emneth Early, Early Victoria's fruit have the best cooking apple qualities of being tart, sweet and keeping all their flavour after they have been cooked. A radiant light green during growth, these apples usually turn a rustic pale yellow when ripe. After baking, they have the same divine nature as a Bramley: crumbling into a texture both airy and smooth that is full of sharp, fruity syrup and juice. Some say cookers this good are best eaten with raisins, sultanas and butter in the centre, straight from the oven. They are, however, also delicious in any meat or vegetable main course, usually as a puree or sliced if the dish is being grilled. Harvest between August and September.

Early Victoria History and Parentage

Early Victoria is a self-fertile tree but needs a suitablepollinator to produce a bumper harvest. Flowering in April and May, your tree will match any of the early or mid season trees in the pollinators category of the Apple Tree Pollination table ( a coupl eof the best are listed at the foot of this page). Alternatively, Crab apple trees are number one for pollinating a whole orchard across the seasons; the best species in our books are the Red-berried and Golden Hornet crab trees.

Rootstocks for Early Victoria