[Sca-cooks] Historical Apples
Lilinah
lilinah at earthlink.net
Sun Oct 26 19:39:56 PDT 2008
Lilinah wrote:
> So, what varieties are available today (without growing one's own)
> that are period or close to period? Are Pippins as close as we can
> get? (crab apples are an awful lot of work for a feast)
Antonia replied
> What kind of Pippins? Cox's Orange Pippins are pretty sweet.
Well, "Pippins" was kind of a trick answer. There are many varieties
of Pippins out there in apple land, but not so much in US
supermarkets.
I have never seen an apple for sale called a Cox's Orange Pippin,
although i have read about them.
The standard Pippins we get in the US (at least here in California)
are green, hard, and tart, but can be eaten out of hand by those who
like tart apples, but are also good (or perhaps better) for baking.
Mostly there are ranks and ranks of mealy characterless Red and
Golden Delicious. I gather from my reading that they don't have to be
so insipid, but most of those available commercially are, at least
these days. I have memories of tangier Red Delicious, but perhaps
those are false memories...
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