Apples are good. I love Granny Smith. You know, if ever there were a Granny Smith she was a lovely lady to have such wonderful apples. Thanks Granny!
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Posts: 211 | Location: Oroville, CA | Registered: 12 October 2006
GRanny Smiths are THE apple to cook with. I just lurve stewed apple and cream.
We used to buy 'snow' apples when I was a child. Do you have them in America? They came in twice a year, only for a very short time (about 2 weeks) and they were very small, very red-skinned and were snow white inside. And were always very sweet tasting. Alas, I've not seen them for many a year.
My favourite eating apples are "Jonathons"
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I like Braeburns. They are as firm as Granny Smiths but slightly sweeter. Very nice on rye bread with pickled herring in sour cream (yes, really!).
We had a lot of apples in our garden when I was a kid. Those things never made it to the markets or shops--a lot of varieties are just grown locally in a few villages or farms. In Sommerset you can buy scrumpy made from locally grown apples at the farm gates.
Here's a photo from an apple festival in Surrey (over 100 varieties. They could be tasted, but weren't for sale):
Best cooking apple in my opinion is Bramley.
P.S. Moving this to the food thread. Anyone have a good recipe to post?
No snow apples here Maybe you can import some for us
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Posts: 211 | Location: Oroville, CA | Registered: 12 October 2006
Granny Smith . . . Granny Smith . . .. Granny Smith.
Toss them in tuna or chicken salad for an unexpected crunch.
I live in Costa Rica and apples seem hard to come by and tend to be expensive. And mostly all I can find in my town are Golden Delicious (but they seem to be mealy) . . . yuch!!
Thankfully I have found some gringo supermarkets where I can finally get my Granny Smith fix and they aren't outrageously overpriced (but then again I am originally from NYC so I guess I am used to overpaying ;-)).
Maybe you can import some for us 
