well, the type I have fit the discription I gave.  size of a cherry, and
slightly bitter.  I remember when I was a kid I used to eat them also. 
were not unpleasent taste, but certainly not sweet.  the old lady<grandma
age> down the block had a tree, I used to climb it all the time.

joy

radei



  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Jeff Gedney"
  To: "Cooks within the SCA"
  Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] verjuice
  Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 10:58:52 -0400

  >
  > > 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.
  >
  >
  > Capt Elias
  > -Renaissance Geek of the Cyber Seas
  >
  > - Help! I am being pecked to death by the Ducks of Dilletanteism!
  > There are SO damn many more things I want to try in the SCA
  > than I can possibly have time for. It's killing me!!!
  >
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  > Breasting the lofty surge: O, do but think
  > You stand upon the ravage and behold
  > A city on the inconstant billows dancing;
  > For so appears this fleet majestical,
  > Holding due course to Harfleur.
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