A variety of yellow eating apple flushed blushed with red, raised in Cornwall and sent to the London Horticultural Society in 1813, though it predates this. It is a late-season variety which is picked from mid-October in South-East England, is stored and is at its best between December and February.
Cream, usually from the milk of Jersey and Guernsey cows, heat treated so that it clots. It is astonishingly thick and smooth, with a distinctive golden crust. To be genuine, it must contain 55% butter fat. Some makers make clotted cream with much higher percentages. It is traditionally served with a scone and strawberry jam (US: jelly) to make the most perfect cream tea. Cornish cream is now protected by law and must be made in Cornwall before it can bear the name.
Cornish Early is a variety of potato which has been grown, particularly in the area of Penwith, in Cornwall since the mid 19th century. They are a good early potato, nearly as good as the Jersey Royal.
These tall, athletic hens are a British breed of hen, thought to have been bred by crossing Old English Game with oriental fighting breeds such as Asods and Malays, primarly for cock-fighting. When this was declared illegal they started to be bred for the showing or as table fowl. They are ancestors of modern hybrid broilers. They are also known as Indian Game.
This conical eating apple was found in a garden in Truro in Cornwall in about 1800 and has a pentagonal base. It is dull green flushed blushed and striped with clear dark red and webbed with some russet. 'Gillyflower' comes from the old French word girofle, meaning clove-scented. By nature these are tip bearing trees, so you can't grow them as cordons or fans. This is a spicy, late-ripening apple which is picked from mid-October in South-East England and is at its best from November to January. They need to be kept in a cold store so they don't shrivel.
Rock hen. Cornish hen. Cornish game hens are immature chickens of a breed of chicken that originated in Cornwall but gained popularity once it moved to the United States. Its body shape is quite different from that of other chickens. Both males and females have short legs and plump, muscular breasts. Although relatively slow-growing, the Cornish hen has excellent meat qualities. Its cross with the fast-growing Plymouth Rock chicken is responsible for most of the broiler and frier types currently on the market in the United States. An increasingly popular form of Cornish poultry, marketed for its delicious meat, is the Rock Cornish game hen which is a cross between Cornish and Rock hens. The Rock Cornish game hen was originally bred by Jacques and Alphonsine Makowsky in Connecticut in 1950. Said to have been bred as a temporary substitute for a flock of guinea hens lost in a fire at their farm, it soon became more popular than the guinea hen. The Rock Cornish is a standard meat-type chicken of a smaller size with all white meat, enough for a single serving. As is common in the poultry industry, store-bought game hens may be either male or female specimens, despite the common usage of the word "hen" typically denoting a female. Despite the name, game hens are not hunted as a game animal, and are raised in chicken coops as are normal chickens. The U.S. Department of Agriculture requires that all chickens sold as Cornish game hens be no more than 2 pounds in ready-to-cook weight.
