"Mordechai Housman" > wrote in message
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> "Grettie" > wrote in message
> oups.com...
>> mordecai-
>> i like to compare and combine elements of recipes i like. with apple
>> cake , or pie, i like to mix apples-definitely granny smith with
>> cortland, gala, winesap empire, macintosh. (for ANY fruit or vegetable
>> "like the old days" find a farmers market in your town for LOCAL
>> produce, IN SEASON . most fruits in supermarkets have been picked
>> before ripe, frozen and shipped. they get mealy as they defrost. i
>> had officially sworn off peaches, until i saw a man with a roadside
>> stand selling fresh jersey peaches. i can only have them for a month
>> each summer, but i make a cake or pie every week.)
>> back to apples . following the instructions of rose levy's book (pie
>> and pastry bible), i try to peel and cut 6 apples about an hour in
>> advance, and mix with sugar, brown sugar (1/2 cup total), 1T lemon
>> juice, some cinnamon, nutmeg and 1/4 t salt. i think the salt draws
>> juice from the apples. let that sit and prepare crust or cake dough.
>> drain fruit. put liquid into a pan over medium heat. add 2 T butter.
>> keep swirling this until it thickens/carmelizes.meanwhile, mix 1T
>> cornstarch into apples (or arrange apple slices on cake batter, no
>> cornstarch . for cake, i scatter nuts over fruit).put fruit into crust.
>> pour thickened juices over fruit and bake
>> gret
>
> Thanks!
>
> As to where to buy the apples: at this time of the year ANY apples
> ANYWHERE are not going to be fresh-picked, are they?

What month is it -- you know what I mean -- is it in Down Under? Are they
fresher than ours?
No matter how they preserve the fresh apples from last September's, buying
U.S. apples 'so called' fresh in June is like wishing upon a star.
I suppose there are some that might say that June's are even fresher than
September's because of the way they preserve them - harrumph!
Dee Dee