[Sca-cooks] Apples....

[Sharon Palmer]

>
>Perhaps it would be more instructive if I asked 
>what the characteristics of a medieval pippin 
>would have been? tart? sweet? etc?

Ones that hobbits like to steal :)


http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pippin

pip·pin

1 : a crisp tart apple having usually yellow or 
greenish-yellow skin strongly flushed with red 
and used especially for cooking

I'd suggest Granny Smith, or a mix of Gala and Granny Smith.

>
>(besides "russeting," whatever that is....)
>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russet_apple
http://seasonalontariofood.blogspot.com/2007/10/russet-apples.html

Ranvaig