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You can buy a Gravenstein or a Duchess to eat for lunch at your local co-op, but the secret to these uncommon varieties is that they are best for pies.
Some of these apples, like Espopus Spitzenberg and Rhode Island Greening can be eaten out of hand as well as being great pie apples. But others, Bramley's Seedling, Belle de Boskoop and Calville Blanc d'Hiver are mainly cooking apples. You can make pies from combinations of these that are better than you have ever eaten before.
Without knowing the full scientific basis for this claim, I believe that it rests on the fact that many of these apples have relatively high concentrations of acid and tannins that in combination with sugars and other apple flavor elements turn into ambrosia when cooked. A similar transformation takes place when you ferment juice from these types of apples into hard cider, but that is a story for another time.
I could make the case for this proposition in several thousand well-chosen words, but it makes more sense to me to just pass along the apple pie experience that I've garnered over the last (too many) years working on a book about the American apple.
Budgets totaling $2.059 billion for Vermont's 14 hospitals were approved Thursday by Steve Kimbell, commissioner of the Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration (BISHCA). That figure amounted to a 4.6 percent increase over the 2011 budgets, but the increase dropped to 3.8 percent if you didn't...
