More information on apples
Along with the other post on apples there are several more apple varieties worth mentioning. Here are the rest of the great apples that can be used for cooking, fresh salads and even paired with cheeses. Add some apples to your palette this summer and eat up to your health.
1. Lady: Great apples for eating raw or using for cooking. Great for applesauce and even pies.
2. McIntosh: These apples are great just cut and eating raw. Their texture will break down with heat so they don’t work well with cooking.
3. Pacific Rose: This apple is a great apple raw with it’s sweet and crisp taste. It can be used for salads in its fresh state and it will brown fast so toss in lemon juice to prevent this.
4. Pink Lady: This apple won’t brown as fast as the others with cut and works well in fresh salads like chicken salad and it also pairs nicely with cheeses.
5. Red Delicious: These are the most popular of freshly eaten apples and are great as is. They will brown quickly so eat up buttercup.
6. Rome Beauty: This apple works great as applesauce and cooking. It is known as the cooking apple.
7. Wine sap: This apple is great in a variety of ways from fresh to used in cooking and for applesauce. Toss in lemon juice though to keep from browning.
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Earthly Eating Recipe
Quick and Easy Pie Crust
Makes: 1 9-inch pie crust
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. salt
3/4 cup chilled shortening (butter-flavor)
4-8 tbs. ice cold water
Blend flour and salt in a mixing bowl. Cut in cubed chilled shortening into the flour mixture using a pastry blender or a knife and fork until it becomes coarse crumbs that are about pea-sized.
Add water tbs. at a time till the dough can stick to itself. Divide dough in half and flatten then wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for about 30-45 minutes. Make sure one round is smaller than the other. Roll the dough out on a floured surface and lay into pie plate. Fill with contents and use the other dough for the top of the pie. Doing the same rolling and laying. Use a pie-bird or cut slits into the top to help vent the pie as it bakes.
Happy Eating!
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