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Keswick|ˈkɛzɪk|
The name of a town in Cumbria, used to designate a variety of cooking apple, in full Keswick codlin(g), which has a greenish skin tinged with red and was first introduced by John Sander, who lived in the town.
1814Mem. Caledonian Hort. Soc. I. 374 (title) Information regarding the Carlisle and Keswick Codlin Apples. Ibid. 376 The Keswick Codlin tree has never failed to bear a crop since it was planted..twenty years ago. 1831H. Ronalds Pyrus Malus Brentfordiensis 5 Keswick Codlin. A favourite sauce apple from the North of England. 1912Mulford & Clay Buck Peters xxii. 198 It's Buck as sure as little apples Kesicks. 1936H. V. Taylor Apples Eng. vii. 74 Those [apples] that became soft and frothy, even on coddling (i.e. parboiling), were known as coddlings—the Keswick Codling, English Codling. 1973Countryman LXXVIII. iv. 42, I could watch the sheets billowing, and the clothes flapping and being confettied by blossom from the crabs, keswicks and white heart cherries. |