On 2015-09-21 4:09 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Monday, September 21, 2015 at 3:17:28 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
>> Even
>> cherry, my favourite, ranked only fourth. I will blame that on too many
>> people basing their ranking on canned cherry filling instead of a real
>> fresh sour cherry pie.
>
> I'm a sour cherry pie slut.

;-)


> Good ones, bad ones, even those truly awful
> Hostess cherry pies. Granted, I prefer good ones, but I'll even enjoy
> some pretty bad ones (although I'm likely to leave the crust behind if
> it's bad enough).

Those truly awful ones may be the standard by which some people are
rating cherry pie by. I have had enough really great sour cherry pies
that I tend to avoid the bad ones. They are too much of a
disappointment. I feel the same way about Black Forest Cake. I had a
lot of really good Black Forest Cake in my youth and later on I had so
many disappointments. I am reluctant to buy one because it is likely to
let me down.


> On a marginally related topic, I accidentally bought some mealy apples
> (some sort of Paula Red derivative, I think). I'll probably make apple
> crisp tomorrow night. They're locally grown and quite fresh. Just
> not what I want in an eating apple.

IMO, a good cooking apple is one that is a little tart and will
maintain some texture when cooked.