My Grandmother used to bake a fantastic apple pie.
Cosmic Crisp are my new favorite apple; very juicy, very crunchy very sweet, with just enough tartness to keep them from being sweet only.
“I bake because punching people is frowned upon.”
My personal best favorite scratch pie to bake is a Bourbon Honeycrisp. If you’re lucky, i’ll bake one. My brother in South Carolina visits Colorado knowing i’ll make one.
Excellent article post. I read every word.
Up in the mountains near Scottsboro, Alabama lies Crow Mountain Orchard (the actual address is Fackler, Alabama). The best apples I ever had are grown there. It’s in the mountains so the fruit sees some cold before it’s picked, unlike most Alabama apples. I don’t live in north Alabama anymore so I don’t get them now. No fancy varieties, just good apples - their Fujis are my favorite, and their cider is the best.
Just had a great batch of Snapdragons, and before that some good Snowsweets.
Normally I love Braeburns but they are hard to get.
Opals and honeycrisps are our current favorites.
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Cortlands and McCauns were the best....
there were no green variety apples back then...McIntosh, Pipins, yellow delicious and red delicious(yuck).
people really don't know cider...we made cider from the drops on the orchard floor.....take them to the cider press, and the apples were gently washed with water spray only then pressed....no pasteurization or any such thing....if there were germs , we drank it down....best drink in the world....
Fuji is my favorite. Golden Delicious after that. Cosmic Crisp has a very strange texture that I find offputting.