We have a mature apple tree my father planted. He called it a pie apple tree. I planed a Wolf River tree this spring, no idea if it is the same.

What do the good bakers on the 'fire like for apple pie?

arkansas blacktwig will work every single solitary time.

Gravenstein.

Hesitant to reply, Richard, since you specified good bakers...

That said, I almost always get Granny Smith apples for a pie.

good point. i failed to see that qualification.

in that case, i take my comment back as i wasn't qualified to offer it to begin with.

can't name 'em but i know what they look like

Stayman-Winesap or Granny Smith.

The apples your wife gets and uses?


I can play that game two.

I also like granny’s sliced with sharp cheddar.

Sorry to the detour.

Depends on where you live. Here in northeast SD Haralson grows just fine. Flavorful, not too sweet, described as a dual purpose apple. Also have a dwarf Fireside. About the same, a little sweeter and best about a week after the Haralsons. The Haralson apple was introduced by the Minnesota Horticulture Research Center decades ago which was the hint it would do well here.

Apples dont grow very well here.


We buy Granny Smith for pies.

Northern Spy, if you can find them. An old northeastern desert and pie variety.

only a hoser does that

Speaking of.....Daughters birthday pie. Kind of a tradition in our family. Pie instead of cake.

Tons of apples grown here,
any dish cooked with apples is likely to have some Granny's,
And one or two other varieties. Usually Winesap and something else.

We buy from the local packing house, pick them from bins.
$8 per 1/2 bushel.
Makes me sick to see them sold in the store by the pound.
A big Apple can go a pound.
+$1 for an apple?


Same for applesauce.
You want it good? Multiple varieties.
Throw a couple Golden Delicious in there if you want it sweet,
without adding too much sugar. That's how I make aple butter
for our diabetic friends. Not 0 carb, but lower.

eh?

Knowd you was alright.

I use MacIntosh here cause thats all thats available except for Red Delicious unless I wanna drive to the Walmart in Thunder Bay.

Cortland.

We used to have some apple trees here that we called June apples, because they were a real early apple and matured in June. They were green, small to medium size, and made the best pies. Otherwise, a Granny Smith is what most use.

We had the same type small green apple in Southwestern Pa.
They were very tart, sour.
They made excellent apple sauce also.
We called them July apples.

ya'lls description of a June-july apple is totally different from my remembrance of an apple tree at my Uncle's in ne Georgia.

we called it a June apple. big, tall tree just loaded, an annual bearer.

red fruit. very white flesh, light density if that makes sense. that is white, and not hard/firm.

very red fruit, an eating apple. not real big, but there were a zillion on the tree. if thinned, no tellin' how big.

not a cooker. that tree is long gone, no replacements.

eat it fresh out of hand. very good for a child of nine or ten. lot's of good food, cheap.

Gus if they are the same apples we had here on the farm. They are called Carolina Red Apples.They also make great cooking apples.

could be. it's the only one i've ever seen actually. it was there when my uncle bought the farm/tract. an old house on the spot next to the tree. no tellin' how old it was.

it finally died out, many years later. it might have been a cooking apple too. i ate it raw off the tree, or picked up off the ground. in June, it was a treat.

my Grandmom had a late summer yellow apple she made preserves out of. a Lodi maybe. ripe long before the late summer/fall apples.

the fall cooking apples were probably some variety of horse apple or related. hard, firm.

Ours died too. But I found a small nursery that sells the Carolina Reds. They claim the variety is more than 200 years old.
https://centuryfarmorchards.com/descripts/crj.html

I have used the following with some success. Jonathan, Winesap, Cortland and Pink Lady. I have also had good luck with Prairie Spy. The Granny Smith Apples we get here taste like raw spuds. ,My favorite is the Jonathan for flavor and texture and consistant quality.. Pink Lady is good but takes a bit longer to bake.

These are a few off the ground slated for a pie soon. Peal, and cut out the bad spots.

I can almost smell that pie!

Which pie Iron Mike? I'm blessed, my wife bakes, and I think she is pretty.

I’m not picky Richard. A slice from the one that gets cut first!

Prefer it with a big dollop of vanilla ice cream, but again I could choke down a regular slice!

As my buddy says...
Apple is one of my three favorite pies.

Apple.

Rhubarb.



And........pie!

It's fun re finding the knack of posting pictures.

Granny Smith

We like Rusty Coat apples for pies and drying.

that describes it well. the flesh is light and white.

didn't know it was a cooker as well for eating out of hand.

might very well procure one for a spot i've got in the garden.

The apples found their way into apple crisp. My wife's cooking.

Spigold

We have 52 kinds of apples at the orchard where I live.
They are 5th generation orchard men. . In Quaker Valley. Yeah. Quakers were nursery folk.

Our county grows 60% of the apples in PA.

Always mix your apples. Some sweet and some tart.

Also......a cortland or York will hold their shape when cooked. Won’t all turn to apple sauce so mix them too.

And always a table spoon of apple cider ........mom always did.

I never order apple pie in a restaurant.......got tired of being disappointed.

Gravenstein

No way

Wife tells me that Gravensteins are a dying breed. Commercial growers can't make enough $ from them. Too finicky or something. I guess only Motherhood and Baseball will soon be left.

Honey crisp, Jonagolds...

Thievery...!!!

they steal xmas trees and watermelons down here all the time.

do know the bears and deer will pick an apple or two.

harvesting apples is hard work, usually up a ladder.

that's what makes this so weird, the thieves harvested and hauled away a huge quantity of apples. big job

i guess something similar recently ocurred in Indiana