it apple season, whats your favorite

[GREENCOUNTYPETE]

it is finally really apple season , I love good apples , but get by with such mediocre apples so much of the year , this is is the time of the year to enjoy , really enjoy the great apples visiting the orchards to get what was just picked perfect in it's prime.

My current favorite is an Arlet they just started picking them this last week a link to a description http://www.orangepippin.com/apples/arlet-swiss-gourmet categorized a Swiss gourmet desert apple they are so good , bought a peck Sunday and I am not sure they will make it the week we are already more than a bushel eaten for the season I think last year in non store apples , the good stuff from local orchards , we ate 5-6 bushel

whats your favorite apple or favorite this week

[jcwit]

Favorite? Honey Crisp or Pink Lady!

[SSGOldfart]

Granny Smith because they make the best pie.

[avogunner]

My family makes applebutter every year and for that we only use Stayman apples (6 bushels for a full kettle). For regular eatin' apples, I prefer Fuji or Pink Lady.

[square butte]

Golden Russet - Ashmeads Kernal - Esopus Spitzenburg and Hudson's Golden Gem. Not ready yet here. We need some cold weather to set the sugar.

[fatnhappy]

Granny Smith because they make the best pie.

ding ding ding. we have a winner.

My cortland tree had limbs touching the ground it was so heavily laden this year

[JWFilips]

I'm old Fashion..."Stayman Winesap" late season though

[Hickory]

Apple dumplings for me.
Any tart apple will do.

[rockrat]

Honeycrisp or a good McIntosh

[butch2570]

wolf river applebutter, granny smith-red delicious apple pie, cortland- pink lady for snacking.

[Hardcast416taylor]

Kinda hard to say no to a nice Macintosh. All 28 of my tame/wild apple trees are ground touchers due to a huge supply this year. My yard deer can take their pick of which tree to eat from.Robert

[Lance Boyle]

I like MacIntosh and Fuji.

What I really want is a piece of my Great Aunt Anna's Jewish Apple Cake. She got the recipe from her neighbor. It was the most moist and delicious cake I ever had in my life, lots of apple chunks, loads of cinnamon and spice, walnuts. It was supreme.

Sadly when she passed my cousins cleaned out her apartment and can't find that recipe.

I will be on a mission this year and I'm going to try to recreate it. Besides what I mentioned that was in it, I do believe it had sour cream in it.

I'm going to start with this recipe and work from there.

http://www.afamilyfeast.com/best-apple-cake-ever/

[country gent]

MAcintosh or yellow delicious halved and cored then a light sprinkle of fruit fresh coated with a mix of cinimnon honey and butter ran thru the smoker with apple wood chips around 200 degrees for a couple hours then topped with carmel and ice cream.

[Lance Boyle]

Golden Russet - Ashmeads Kernal - Esopus Spitzenburg and Hudson's Golden Gem. Not ready yet here. We need some cold weather to set the sugar.

Sadly they're dropping from the tree now. I do believe the lack of rain had them quite stressed. I missed my pear trees. I checked them and thought they weren't ready, they wouldn't separate at the stem from the tree. I went out of town for work only to find when I woke up the next morning that the pears were mostly all gone, they'd dropped and were eaten by the deer, and what remained were over ripe. I went to pick a larger one and nearly got zapped by a yellow jacket that was inside the damn thing. I got one pear about the size of a plum.

I hope to do better with the apples.

I have 5 much older trees that appear to be macs or something close. The folks that built my house planted about 7 more right by the house. They're little trees and they're fairly well loaded right now despite dropping some for weeks. One tree lost it's leaves from the stress. I don't have much soil where they're at, they're in thin scratch of dirt over bedrock shale.

I think I'm going to make canned pie filling and apple sauce with a lot of them.

[square butte]

This is without a doubt the best apple year I have ever witnessed here in VT. Most all of the trees are loaded. Yes - Some of the trees have dropped some apples due to stress. But even the little old wolfy abandoned homestead trees have great apples this year. Apple butter and apple sauce made with maple syrup and fresh pressed cider will be made in abundance in our kitchen. Fortunately my wife loves to do it.

[labradigger1]

Wolf river applesauce with cinnamon.
Red delicious from a sapling I've been babying for about 7 years.
My taste likes a hard, sweet Apple.
My wife likes Macintosh. Not sure what's wrong with her lol.
Lab

[Plate plinker]

Honey crisp Then gala for the rest of the year.

[dsbock]

I'm a traditionalist. MacIntosh for me. Second place is Empire.

Either for eating or for apple sauce.

David

[Vann]

Really buttery apple crisp, and Macintosh apples.

[SeabeeMan]

Zestar's for eating and apple rings. For anything going in cans, my favorite orchard around here does bushels of mixed seconds with everything in the mix. We don't need to add any extra sugar to anything before canning.

They also have apple cider donuts which are the best thing since full auto.