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Monday, October 22. 2012

Honeycrisp Apples

Mrs. BD was thoughtful enough to bring us home a (too small) bag of just-picked Honeycrisps from Glen Hill Orchard outside Mount Vernon, Ohio.


The name describes them perfectly. Possibly the tastiest apple variety I have ever had. We tried a few before taking the apple portrait.


Posted by Bird Dog in Food and Drink, Our Essays at 16:54 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (0)

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I have about 49 types of heritage apple growing here and plan to put more in this winter, some great wildly different apple flavours to be had in some of the lesser known varieties.
#1 Thud (Link) on 2012-10-22 17:49 (Reply)
Honeycrisp are not heritage. Invented in the 1960s.
#1.1 Bird Dog on 2012-10-22 19:43 (Reply)
Love honeycrisps, but a pound of them around here is about the same as a gallon of gas.
#2 Tom Kelly on 2012-10-22 19:36 (Reply)
Fresh crisp apples are good no matter what the type. I like honey crisps and fuji.
#3 Tom Francis on 2012-10-22 20:29 (Reply)
I don't know, maybe my Honeycrisps lose lots of flavor and crispness between the orchard and my grocery store. Because Fuji's are better, and a lot less expensive than Honeycrisps.

[Get the small Fuji's. They're the tastiest.]
#4 Dr. Everett V. Scott (Link) on 2012-10-22 22:10 (Reply)
Honey crisp are the favorite of my significant other.

They are also the favorite of my sister. They also like the jazz.
#5 feeblemind on 2012-10-22 22:41 (Reply)
Finishing off the last of the Vermont McIntoshs my uncle mailed down. Much better than the store ones here in Florida.
If anyone knows any good apple orchards in New England would love to hear about.
#6 grant1863 on 2012-10-22 23:20 (Reply)
Orchards are all around NE- but regarding which will mail, don't know.There were several apple orchards within 5 miles of my childhood home in NE. From September to April there was always a half bushel in an unheated but unfrozen hallway. Apples and apples, all you wanted, all the time. Plain eating, apple sauce, cobblers, pies. Macs were good, but my favorite eating apple was Ida Red. Though the song was pretty good, also.
#6.1 Gringo on 2012-10-23 00:32 (Reply)
A crunchy Stayman Winesap will make me happy. But there are an awful lot of good apples: Pink Lady, Honeycrisp, Fuji even the basic Red Delicious. The only apple i wouldn't cross a room for is Granny Smith - and they have their own special place in baking.
#7 BlogDog on 2012-10-23 00:57 (Reply)
I've been eating Fuji's along with a slice of Dubliner cheese.
#8 Santay on 2012-10-23 03:44 (Reply)
Northern Spry. With a slice of cheese...cheddar or colby is fine with me.
#9 Jewel (Link) on 2012-10-23 04:07 (Reply)
The local orchards in Northwest NJ produce fabulous Macouns, Macs, Empire, and the different Jonathan types.

I can never commit to one kind and have to fill a mixed bag.
#10 NJSoldier on 2012-10-23 09:29 (Reply)

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