{"id":11220,"date":"2012-09-09T12:04:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T19:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=11220"},"modified":"2012-09-09T12:04:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T19:04:31","slug":"apple-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/09\/apple-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple update"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those of you who care (and I suspect it’s a minority, although you’ve also been an extremely helpful minority), I think the apple tree in my backyard<\/a> is a newtown pippin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gads, there are zillions of apple varieties! And apparently very few people curious about them. (When I put the most relevant discriptive terms into startpage, my own August blog entry popped to the top of the results. Very helpful, that. \ud83d\ude09 ) <\/p>\n

But newtown pippin is what fits best, even though I can’t decide whether the aroma is piney<\/a>. Or not piney. Piney? Who knew that apples had their own version of wine snobs? Turns out apples can also have “vanilla overtones” or a “distinct flavor of cloves.” And here all these years I just thought they tasted and smelled like apples.<\/p>\n

In any case, that’s about the best possible apple I could have inherited. It’s a late-harvest, ideal-keeper type that gets better after months of storage. It’s well-reputed for drying or cider — and it just happens to be exactly the sort of tart, firm apple I prefer. <\/p>\n

Thank you again, brilliant commentariat, for your help on my search. (And furrydoc … I hope you don’t mind if I keep your ladder a few weeks longer; these apples apparently still have quite a ways to go before harvest.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those of you who care (and I suspect it’s a minority, although you’ve also been an extremely helpful minority), I think the apple tree in my backyard is a newtown pippin. Gads, there are zillions of apple varieties! And apparently very few people curious about them. (When I put the most relevant discriptive terms into startpage, my own August blog entry popped to the top of the results. Very helpful, that. \ud83d\ude09 ) But newtown pippin is what fits best, even though I can’t decide whether the aroma is piney. Or not piney. Piney? Who knew that apples had…<\/p>\n

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