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[Mark Lee <mark.lee.phd@gmail.com>]

The taste in fruit - one of my favorite topics...

I grow Nutmeg Pippin apple but have not tasted it yet. Have read
reviews that say "The firm creamy flesh has an intense, aromatic
flavour with a subtle, spicey nutmeg-like flavour!"

I describe a well-ripened Toko apple as very sweet with subtle spice
similar to cinnamon.

I have tasted the Japanese apple called Fukutami, and my young tree
will bear in a few years. My own tasting notes say "between apple
cider vinegar and wine".

I ran across this description by someone else this morning for
Ashmead's Kernel "this apple explodes with a champagne-sherbet flavor
infused with orange blossom".

And a pear - Flemish Beauty is my favorite pear. It is described as
"Sweet and aromatic with a musky flavor". I describe it as a essence
of rose or muscat flavor.

-Mark Lee, Seattle, picking evergreen huckleberries

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 7:49 PM, David M. Taylor <dmtaylor@lakefield.net> 
wrote:
> As for odd flavored apples, there are lots!  Here are just a few that I have
> tasted:
>
> The apple variety Empress has a very pronounced black licorice flavor.  I
> can occasionally pick up a hint of anise/licorice from most of the
> McIntosh-family varieties including Cortland, Jonamac, etc., but Empress
> takes the prize!
>
> Hudson's Golden Gem is an apple that tastes quite a bit like a pear.  You
> may get similar character from lots of other varieties that are heavily
> russeted (which Hudson's is).
>
> Last year I tried a Lady Alice apple, and I thought it tasted a little like
> lemon and/or ginger.  But then this year I didn't pick up the same
> complexity.
>
> Opal to me tastes a lot like apricot.
>
> >From Fuji I often pick up a certain artificial grape flavor.
>
> They say Sweet 16 is supposed to taste like cherry licorice or almond, but I
> didn't detect it in my tastings.  However...
>
> Sweet 16's parent is Malinda, and from that one, I most certainly do pick up
> a huge almond flavor.
>
> I've tasted a little known variety called Yarwood Crab that I thought had a
> mozzerella cheese-like flavor, but without the salt of course.
>
> Finally, a little off-topic, but for anyone who has lived in the Milwaukee
> area, I think I've finally figured out the secret ingredient to the old
> Candy Raisins (which sadly are no longer made with the same recipe and which
> will never be duplicated accurately).  There is a pear variety called French
> Butter that when ripe tastes precisely like the old Candy Raisins of my
> youth.  Yum.  For the bulk of you who have never tasted Candy Raisins, too
> bad.... but you can have a good pear instead!
>
> Taste is subjective.  Don't take my word as truth, or anyone else's.  Taste
> them for yourself.  If you can get your hands on them.
>
> --
> Dave
> "Newton not living... I am there to catch her."
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:00:27 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: William McNam <billmcnam@yahoo.com>
>> Subject: [nafex] cimmamin/nutmeg flavoured apple?
>> To: david.maxwell@dal.ca, nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
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>> I have heard that there are apple varieties with a licorice taste. Perhaps
>> someone knows these.
>> Does anyone know of apple varieties/selections with other very
>> unusual/distinctive flavours?
>>
>> Has anyone come across an apple that tastes like a pear?
>>
>
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