SC - Russian dishes

[Traci_Bjers@radian.com]

What about Gala?  I find the texture, and the taste quite appealing.  I
have NEVER liked red delicious apples, I think they should have named
them "red, waxy flavored, apple-looking thingies". Yuck
Kinga

Catherine Keegan wrote:
> 
> Most of Cariadoc's list appear to be 17th century. Winter Pearmain might be a medieval variety, or a descendant of one, according to some research I have read. Lady is dated to 1600 and therefore might squeak under the wire. Corps Pendu is in. I think I remember seeing a reference to Fenouillette Gris, or something similar, being medieval.
> 
> But some of these are dated much later in the Sonoma Antique Apple catalog:
> Coe's Golden Drop - 1842
> Sops of Wine - 1832
> 
> I do not, unfortunately, have much information about the French varieties... and am looking for references to same. Summer Rambo (Rambour Franc) is listed in the SAA catalog as dating to "17??", whatever THAT means.
> 
> If you can actually get the Lady apple, that is perhaps your best bet. It is a small fruit, very pretty, not too sweet, somewhat acid, and reportedly keeps all winter. I have tasted it, but not cooked with it, but suspect it would do well.
> 
> If you can wait about three years, you can order trees on dwarf rootstock and grow your own:
> www.applenursery.com
> bearcreeknursery.com (not up yet but you can email them for a catalog)
> 
> Colin
> 
> p.s. On a slightly different tack, Raintree nursery has Medlars, another period fruit that does not appear in groceries out here. (360) 496-6400 for catalog.
> 
>      Cariadoc wrote:
>      My list from the Miscellany article:
> 
>      Calville Blanc D'Hiver (1627) Grosse Mignonne (1667)
>      Court Pendu Plat (16th century-possibly Roman)
>      Devonshire Quarendon (1690) Nectarine
>      Drap d'Or (=Coe's Golden Drop?) Early Violet (1659)
>      Lady Apple (1628)
>      Old Nonpareil Pears
>      Pomme Royale Buerre Gris (1608)
>      Reinette Franche Rousselet de Reims (1688)
>      Roxbury Russett (Early 17th century) Bartlett (Williams Bon Chretien)
>      Scarlet Crofton "of ancient origin"-may or may
>      Sops of Wine not be pre-1600.
>      Summer Rambo (16th century)
>      Winter Pearmain Plums
>      Fenouilette Gris Green Gage (Reine Claude)
>      Golden Reinette Prune d'Agen
> 
>           To approximate medieval culinary apples, you would need to find an orchard
>           growing the old vintage varieties.
> 
>      Or grow your own--there are a number of nurseries that sell the old varieties.
>      David Friedman
>      Professor of Law
>      Santa Clara University
>      ddfr at best.com
>      http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
> 
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