Originally Posted by
Roberta
I don't think the type of apples really matters. We went apple picking and I picked two types that I don't know the name of. One was a yellow apple that was tart, the other looked like a Mac and was sweet. I used both types and it came out fine.
I think the type of apples make all the difference in the world, and you will, too, when you taste your apple crisp made with the right apples. We used to have Wolf Rivers, so I'm spoiled. Those trees are both gone now, but they were huge. Taller than our two story house.
My sister has the best tasting apples. I always know when I taste her apple bars at a pot luck or funeral. They are wonderful. I don't know what kind they are, but a baking apple that gets mushy when cooked is usually good.
We had an apple tree in our front yard that I wanted to get rid of. The apples were just not worth the work. No flavor at all. So my husband cut off all the branches that he could reach and piled dirt around the trunk. It died. Good riddance.