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From: gml@ssc-vax.UUCP (Gregory M Lobdell)
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Subject: Re: Apples- which kind?
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Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 13:00:54 EDT
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> A few months ago, I purchased and consumed my first Granny Smith
> apple. It was like an apple I'd always dreamed existed: crisp and
> slightly tart, and with a heady apple flavor that was the very essence
> of appleness. ...
>
> Now if only I can find a peck of Gravensteins somewhere ...
> 
>                              -- Cheers, Bill Ingogly

The Granny Smith is this way because it is a special hybrid that was
made to ship well, thus it gets to you in wonderful condition.  Good
Goldens are better (in my opinion) as are Gravensteins since they
aren't so hard and are just as crisp, however, they may not make it
to your area because they are delicate apples and bruise easily.

Someone asked how to make apple cider.  To make non-alcoholic apple
cider you simply squish apples and catch the liquid that runs off.
Usually this squishing process is done on a piece of equipment called
a press, which is able to apply a large amount of pressure to the
apples while still allowing the liquid to run off.  Many presses also
include machinery which chops, shreds or otherwise mutilates the
apples so that the maximum amount of liquid is removed.  Alcoholic
cider is just the above let sit for a while until it ferments.

The difference between the apple juice and apple cider that you see
on the shelf in Safeway (or your other local grocer) is that apple
juice is this clear liquid that seems to be the result of straining
all the yummy solids out if apple cider.  As has been said before,
cider should be about as clear as milk.  Apple juice is a clear and
insipid drink, concocted for wimps.

Gregg Lobdell


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