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[Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>]

On Feb 4, 2011, at 6:28 PM, Alan Haigh wrote:

> Baldwin used to be my favorite apple but the warm autums we've been having 
> a lot of lately aren't conducive to it getting to best quality. 

I was never really impressed by Baldwins, but I'd only had them at PYO places 
that tend to let everything be picked under-ripe.  A perfectly fine apple, 
but unexciting.  This year I was shopping late in the season for apples, from 
a small orchard that picks and sells its own fruit, and they had a sign on 
the Baldwins that said "traditional pie apple".  So I bought some.

Wow!  They were terrific.  A nice apple-y apple to eat out of hand, and it 
cooked up to an excellent flavor and texture.  I will be buying more next 
year.

I live a bit north of you, and perhaps our weather was better for them than 
yours this year.

Ginda
eastern MA, zone 6
(but the apples were grown a bit west of my location, and might have been 
from zone 5)