An English dessert apple of a golden or orange-red variety which ripens late in the season.
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- Another favourite was Blenheim Orange which was often found in Christmas stockings just when the flavour was at its most rich and distinctive.
- When scaffolders uprooted his Blenheim Orange, Nigel Slater swallowed hard and set off to find the perfect apple tree.
- They must has been one of the first nurserymen to distribute Blenheim Orange, as it was not in wide circulation before 1818.
- The Blenheim Orange is one of the loveliest apples of all with its dry distinctive flavour.
- The first cottage after the mill has a plaque recording the raising of the first Blenheim Orange apple here by George Kempster.