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["Stephen Sadler" <Docshiva@Docshiva.org>]

Those intermediate pie apples, like Macoun, are never as firm as the say,
Jonathans or Pippins, nor as mushy as McIntoshes or Bramleys.  With Macoun,
I think you would get a firmer pie with fresh apples, not stored.  I'm
surprised you find them in the markets there - I never seem them here.  You
have to go to the orchards - which are plentiful.  

If you try a Spy & Mac pie, go two-thirds to three-quarters Northern Spy,
especially since you (and me both!) like a pie with distinctive and firmish
pieces.  I wouldn't choose more than 1/3 of my pie apples from the softer
types.  

I am sort of longing for the new crop of apples - but I hate that the end of
summer looms.  I can never get enough of sunshine and peaches...

Stephen 

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[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Ginda Fisher
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 3:23 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] firm cooking apples (was Bramley)


Thanks everyone.

Charlie - you live in my general neighborhood.  Where can I buy  
Northern Spies?  (reply off list if you like.)  I see a few of them  
for one week at one market, and wonder if anyone sells them in more  
quantity.

Stephen, I will have to try a multi-variety pie with an eye towards  
slices in sauce, as you suggest.  Perhaps Spy and Macintosh.

Of the other suggested apples, I can buy a few Goldrush or Newton  
Pippin (like Northern Spy), Jonagold, Stayman Winesap, and of course  
Macoun, which is very popular around here and is in the supermarket  
in season.   I find Macoun cooks similarly to McIntosh.  (Maybe I  
overcook it?)

I've never seen Suncrisp or Cox's Orange pippin for sale locally.  Or  
a Prairie Spy.  Is that a really different apple or just a sport of N  
Spy, do you think?

Thanks again.  I will think of you in pie season.  :)

Ginda
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