Bob (this one) wrote:

> Did an experiment. Three kinds of apples baked together to see how
> they'd turn out. Granny Smith, golden delicious, ginger gold.
>
> Peeled, cored and filled with dried cranberries. Brown sugar over top,
> dab of butter on each. Around the apples in the pan, apricot preserves
> warmed/melted in apple juice. Basted every 10 minutes or so. Total cook
> time about 35 minutes. 350°F.
>
> The golden delicious became a mediocre applesauce in just over 15
> minutes. The granny smiths seemed to have very little flavor. Not tart,
> not sweet, just a kind of weak apple flavor, though considerably more
> solid than the golden delicious. The ginger golds were brilliant. Firm,
> sweet/tart, still had that little bite aftertaste at the end.
>
> Clear enough to me.
>
> Pastorio
Delicious is not a cooking apple. You need to use cooking apples