[Sca-cooks] verjuice

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Jun 19, 2005, at 10:58 AM, Jeff Gedney wrote:

>> Right, but you have them way to big.  Crabapples are about the  
>> size of a
>> cherry. and slightly bitter. not pleasent eating without sweetening.
>>
>
> Not entirely true...
> there are "juicing" or "cider" varieties of crabapples that yeild  
> fruit a little larger than a baby's fist.
> I have one suc on my property. they whole area in which my house  
> was developed was, at the turn of the 20th century, a massive apple  
> orchard, with a lot of cider business, so we have a lot of apples,  
> wild, in the area. I have three varieties in my 1/2 acre alone.
> If it werent for the bugs, I'd be floating in cider.

That's been my experience, too. The ones growing around here look  
pretty much like what are now being sold as Lady Apples, about the  
size of a golf ball, only more sour (more sour than a golf ball???).  
Maybe it's an East Coast thing.

Adamantius



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