Re: [gardeners] Apple butter
Margaret Lauterbach (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Thu, 28 Jun 2001 07:42:54 -0600
Penny, the best apple for sauce IMO is the Gravenstein. Try that variety if
you can get it. Margaret L
At 11:59 PM 6/27/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Alice, we do have lots of apple picking orchards around us, this
>being the New York apple growing valley. That makes it easy for
>us to buy a bushel -- or to pick a bushel, if we want to....
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>I presume that different apple cultivars will produce different
>apple butters. It is perhaps sacriligious of us, but our #1 favorite
>apple is a Washington State red delicious. They are very large,
>very firm, very juicy, very fragrant. I also like a McCombs, which
>is like an early mac and only has a 2 week season.
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>Always wondered what became of the millions of 'greening'
>apple trees which used to produce our best apple pies and
>cobblers...? Once the Granny Smiths came in, the 'greenings'
>disappeared. Do you think they were all destroyed...???
>
>Penny, NY
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