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Skriven 2008-11-02 20:47:14 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Dave Drum
Ärende: Gee Smith
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Howdy Dave!
-> 
->  ->  -> Granny Smiths - which pretty well suck - for all their popularity.
-> 
->  ->  hn> Granny Smith's are my favorite apple! nice and tart
->  ->  hn> not too sweet firm, not mealy...they cook well and
->  ->  hn> store well. Which one do you like? fuji? Johnagold?
->  ->  hn> rome??
-> 
->  -> Winesap, Spy, Jonathan, Delicious (Red and Golden), Gala, Macintosh -
->  -> occasionally Fuji, but that's not a popular variety at local orchards
-> round
->  -> here.
-> 
->  -> Grew up on Winesaps - that's the apple tree we had in the back yard.
-> 
->  hn> Most of those are too sweet for my tastes. I like
->  hn> a more tart apple, Fuji's, Galas, and even Jonathan's
->  hn> are too sweet, I don't mind a good red delicious if
->  hn> it's early enough in the harvest, but we ship our
->  hn> best "Washington Apples" out of state and it seems
->  hn> we keep the mealy mushy ones here. I'd have to ask
->  hn> what kind of apple trees my grandparents had on their
->  hn> farm, but it was a nice tart apple and made super
->  hn> pies and apple sauce....and hard cider!
-> 
-> Sweet is relative. Do you make apple pie, apple brown betty, or apple 
sauce
-> without adding any sugar??? And when you are making cider - the more 
the sugar
-> content - the greater potential of "scrumpy" when it goes to hard cider.
-> 
-> I still think that Granny Smythe apples are popular because they ship and 
store
-> well - not for anything to do with superior taste or other important 
qualities.
-> 
Sweet is indeed relative, and I like tart better
than sweet. I hate mealy apples the most
Rome apples are particularly nasty in that 
way. I like apple pies, and no  I don't add
much sugar (usually cut it some actually) 
when I make them, I don't make my own
cider hard or otherwise. G. Smiths may 
indeed be popular for all the reasons you
listed above....I still like em because I 
like the way they taste, those are the
qualities that are important to me.
chat with you soon!
hap 
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