@Heartlander just a reminder, the sweetest cherries are the yellowish Rainier Cherries, and not the bright red bing. Also, in a blindfold test, Green Delicious apples are just as sweet as are Red Delicious :)
@cherokeepatti the best apples I've ever eaten were on an ancient orchard at the back of Ann Hathaways cottage. They were shiny red and the flesh inside was marbled with red. They were delicious. They are trying to bring back some of the older apple varieties here.
@meggie They need to bring back older varieties of apples and a lot of other fruits and veggies. It is sad how so few foods were narrowed down to just a few varieties. One man has worked for many years going to abandoned rural areas and taking cuttings of overgrown neglected apple trees to get new starts for the trees. He discovered so many new varieties this way. We would be surprised at how many flavors of apples and other produce there are that we haven’t ever tasted before.
@cherokeepatti when I just peeked at Google images at different images of apples, they identify some green colored apples as Golden Delicious and some as Green Delicious.
I guess I’ll have to do field research to validate what I think I remember. I’m pretty sure we once did blindfold apple tasting test to pit red Vs green apples. But then, I’ve done a lot of things in my long life and assess my memory to be within a standard deviation of accuracy, so a 2.5% chance of a flawed memory. If I recall correctly the purpose of the exercise was to disconnect red from the presumption of sweetness. So for the time being, my comment on sweet green apples is pending and awaiting a field test. :)
@Heartlander I like to sometimes put a couple of quartered Granny Smith apples in a dish with sautéed chicken and veggies like carrots, potatoes, onions & yellow squash and cover it and cook it slowly. Cooking with chicken that way brings out a sweeter flavor.
@cherokeepatti that is true. Many old houses over here have ancient orchards and others are doing the same here. We have 2 bramley apple trees and 3 red eating apple trees in the garden. The birds and squirrels do take some of them. But we get enough bramleys to freeze for most of the year.
@meggie I know if you want to get a tree for certain types of apples it’s not good to save the seeds because it becomes a crapshoot of what type of apple it will produce. Getting cuttings is the best way. Johnny Appleseed collected apple seeds and went around the country distributing them to property owner to plant. Most of those trees ended producing sour & maybe bitter fruit. That’s why there was so much apple cider produced and it became a fall tradition to make, and apple cider vinegar too. The settlers did not want to waste the fruit so they made cider and vinegar from it.
@cherokeepatti we did likewise just a few days ago but with pork chops. I tend to think of Gala as general purpose apples, and usually buy 2 or 3 with every food order. Also cut the apple in smaller pieces and blend it into the carrots, celery, onion, sweet pepper, garlic, etc. and rice. If no apple golden raisins is a good replacement.
@Heartlander I make a dish with sautéed cubes of chicken breast, a chopped onion, and a small bit of garlic. Add some raisins (golden is best) and add a tiny bit of water, cover the skillet with it cracked a bit and turn the heat down and simmer slowly for about 25 minutes. This is really good served with rice and pretty easy to make with few ingredients.
@cherokeepatti seems like someplace I read that all Granny Smith trees are first cousins, as are all Gala, all Braeburn, etc. made from clippings or grafts, not seeds. All invented from the seeds once scattered by Johnny Applesee. Or is that just a fairytale?
