"kilikini" > wrote in message
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>
> "Bob Terwilliger" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Mordechai wrote:
>>
>> > I have been making simple apple pie, and I can't seem to get it the
>> > way
> my
>> > mother used to make it.
>> >
>> > It always comes out to dry. My mother's apple pie used to have some
>> > delicious liquid with it, and I can't figure out how to do it.
>> >
>> > My problem is with the filling. I use:
>> >
>> > Two or three fresh apples
>> > Apple pie filling from a can
>> > Sugar
>> > Corn starch.
>> >
>> > What might I be doing wrong?
>>
>> I'm guessing that the apples are the problem. If the apples you buy
>> are
> dry
>> and mealy, they won't have any juice to contribute to the filling.
>>
>> It's gotten REALLY difficult to find good apples nowadays.
>
> Isn't that the truth! I quit buying apples because they're not as
> good as
> they were when I was a kid! I remember being able to bite off a huge
> chunk
> of a red delicious. Now, they're all grainy and mushy and leave kind
> of a
> sour taste on your tongue. I'll bet Bob's correct in saying it's the
> apples.

Well, SOMEtimes you can get yellow delicious apples that are firm and
not grainy or mushy, and sometimes they're somewhat juicy, but I agree
with you all that apples are not what they used to be. Neither are
several other fruits I find, like oranges and bosc pears. Despite all
the new fruits I have seen come and go on the market, they can't seem to
engineer a fruit that tastes as good as they used to.

One fruit I saw on the market for perhaps two years in the late
September season was something called a monastario, which was a hybrid
of banana and pineapple. It was actually very delicious. But now I can't
find it ANYWHERE!