Sam has been bringing apples home for awhile, but recently we got serious about the fall apple harvest. He picks from local trees that seem otherwise ignored. We don’t like to see the apples going to waste. Here are the six types he brought home recently.
I made an apple crisp with these after cutting into them for a taste test comparison. The apples with the reddish flesh (right) are my favorite. Tart and crispy. But they’re all good. The variety on the lower left is HUGE, the size of my fist or bigger. Not a superstar for flavor, but nice white juicy flesh. They were all juicy, probably because they were fresh picked. I wonder how they will store.
Today we went back so I could photograph the trees they came from, and also picked some more. The photos are in the order of the apples laid out above, going clockwise from top left:
