Apples

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:56 pm

If you are not eating a juicy, sweet, Honeycrisp apple right this minute, you need to go to local grocer and buy some. They're uniformly excellent, and they don't store so you can only get them for about a month.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:02 pm

You make them sound pretty good. Thanks for the heads-up. I'll watch for them.

Aanvil · Post by **Aanvil** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:02 pm

A message from your Local Apple Advisory Board.

Apples... the cobblestones on your road to long life.

rorybbellows · Post by **rorybbellows** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:05 pm

I like french golden delicious,green hard and very juicey

RORY

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:16 pm

While we are on the subject of apples, I am waiting to try this one.

MN447

I did not know that the Honeycrisp was also a due to MN breeders.

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:19 pm

See, now you're gettin' all technical on me.

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:23 pm

Aanvil wrote:Apples... the cobblestones on your road to long life.

Is that the same as road apples?

djm

WyoBadger · Post by **WyoBadger** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:41 pm

We have two young honeycrisp trees in our yard. They haven't produced yet. drool drool

missy · Post by **missy** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:51 pm

When my dad bought the property that he eventually built our house on, the very FIRST thing he did was plant 4 apple trees - one McIntosh, one Golden Delicious and two Transparent (what we called cooking apples). All of these were full sized trees, not dwarf varieties. That was in 1955. I just drove past that house last week, and one of the Transparent trees is still standing! Which is really long for a full size tree.

You can't find Transparent apples anymore, but I talked with an orchard person and he said that Lodi is a pretty close comparison. But I've not found those for sale. The Transparents were hard, green (if you left them on the tree they might get just a slight tinge of pink on them) and very, very tart. Our dachshund would eat them continuously and leave the cores all around the house.

I love hard, green, tart apples. I hate shiny, fake tasting or mushy apples.

Aanvil · Post by **Aanvil** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:55 pm

djm wrote:
Aanvil wrote:Apples... the cobblestones on your road to long life.
Is that the same as road apples?

djm

Shhhhh!

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:57 pm

There was an old apple tree (long dead now, sad to say) behind the house my dad was born in (in the mountains of western NC). I don't know what kind of apples they were. They usually had a good, but not exceptional, flavor. However, they had a unique property: if the apples got hit with a hard frost while they were still on the tree, their flavor was transformed into something that tasted like a combination of apples and cherries. Incredibly delicious.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:04 pm

ice wine

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:13 pm

Denny wrote:ice wine

There is a traditional hard cider in this country also produced by freezing, isn't there?

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:23 pm

I'd imagine it's much the same thing.

The freeze does things to the sugars.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 4:36 pm

We are so blessed to be in a place where there are apples and we can afford them.