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| CherryPie |
Posted - Oct 16 2009 : 10:35:16 AM
In celebration of autumn and apples, I'm challenging all you farmgirls to try some apples you've never had before, particularly heirloom, organic, local apples. So far this season, I've tried a Sylvia apple and I've just purchased a couple Ambrosia apples that are new to me. I'm challenging myself to see how many I can sample before autumn is over. What about you? Care to take the challenge?? 
Kimberly Ann
Farmgirl Sister #225
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| beekeepersgirl |
Posted - Oct 19 2009 : 05:14:39 AM
My mom often talks about an apple tree on her family farm when she was growing up. No one these days has ever heard of it. She said they were called "puppy noses". They were shaped somewhat like a Delicious, but smaller and very sweet. Has anybody ever heard of these?
Thanks!
Luanne
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Oct 18 2009 : 10:00:17 PM
How fun. I really want to put some more apple trees in our yard next year. Our two old ancient ones are not going to be around much longer. One is already dead on the whole back half. I planted a Yellow Transparent a few years ago and it is fun that the apples on that tree ripen more than a month before the others. I LOVE that! I plan to for sure plant heirlooms when I do plant new trees.
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Oct 16 2009 : 2:02:30 PM
Kimberly Ann--
I've never ordered from this orchard http://www.treesofantiquity.com/index.php?main_page=index
(I ordered my Cox's Orange Pippin from a guy in Wisconsin) but this is the most comprehensive list of heirloom and ancient apple trees I've ever seen. I would look this list over (but be prepared--it will be VERY difficult to decide!!!!) and order from them...in fact, I'm formulating mine as we speak :) I usually get a dwarf heirloom apple for Christmas!
Musings from our family in the Bluegrass http://sweetvioletmae.blogspot.com/ |
| CherryPie |
Posted - Oct 16 2009 : 1:42:48 PM
Jonni, those sound wonderful and completely unknown to me. I gotta find these!
Kimberly Ann
Farmgirl Sister #225
Crochet Geek, Newbie Fiddler, Would-be Farmer, Backyard Chicken Rancher |
| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Oct 16 2009 : 11:33:05 AM
Sure...they may be called something different here, but the ones we ate/cooked with were:
Cooking:
Cornish Gilliflower: smelled faintly of cloves--used them for applesauce
Bramley's seedling: all around perfect cooking apple (pies, baked apples, fried apples, etc.)
Eating:
Allington Pippin
Cox's Orange Pippin (still a standard in English markets)
Albemarle
Bedfordshire Foundling
Fearns Pippin
Now you might see why my nickname for my daughter, Violet, is "Pippin"!
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| CherryPie |
Posted - Oct 16 2009 : 11:02:31 AM
Jonni,
I'd love to hear about some of your favorites. Care to share?
Kimberly Ann
Farmgirl Sister #225
Crochet Geek, Newbie Fiddler, Would-be Farmer, Backyard Chicken Rancher |
| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Oct 16 2009 : 10:42:16 AM
I've been eating and buying heirloom apples for over 18 years. Started when I lived in England with Cox's Orange Pippins and a variety of other apples, some dating to the 1300's, grown on the farm corner to my friend's dairy farm.
Sounds like a great challenge for anyone who wants to experience history in a tart, sweet bite!
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