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Thread Number: 37188
Michigan Apple Harvest Makes Way For Autumn Apple Pie! |
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Post# 553045 10/31/2011 at 12:05 (4,561 days old) by kevin313  (Detroit, Michigan) |
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There are apples by the galore coming out of Michigan orchards so put together one of our favorites - an apple pie!
Recipe and more at link: CLICK HERE TO GO TO kevin313's LINK | ||
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Post# 553057 , Reply# 1 10/31/2011 at 12:56 (4,561 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Post# 553078 , Reply# 2 10/31/2011 at 14:08 (4,561 days old) by KenmoreGuy64 (Charlotte, NC) |
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Hi Kevin,
Once again you have brought back some really neat Michigan memories for me. My Mom still makes a good apple pie, but she frequently complains that today's apples just aren't as good as she remembers. Maybe its the local Michigan apples that she liked so well? Speaking of local apples, we had VERY local apples in Rochester, from our own backyard. My Dad planted two apple trees, one golden delicious I think, and some sort of red cooking apple. It was my job, which I enjoyed, each fall to harvest the apples, which I would do from a ladder, using several large paper grocery bags per tree (does the name Chattam and Farmer Jack bring back memories of Michigan grocery stores?). The red cooking apples were deliciously tart, and we'd make applesauce from them using a Foley food mill. We'd cook the apples, skin on (very easy) and the red skin would tint the sauce a neat dark pink color. There's nothing like the smell of Michigan apples cooking on the stove on a crisp, sunny fall day!!! Thanks again for another great video Kevin! Gordon | ||
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Post# 553085 , Reply# 3 10/31/2011 at 14:18 (4,561 days old) by kevin313 (Detroit, Michigan) |
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Post# 553088 , Reply# 4 10/31/2011 at 14:21 (4,561 days old) by kevin313 (Detroit, Michigan) |
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| Post# 553146 , Reply# 6 10/31/2011 at 17:43 (4,561 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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KEVIN!!! You cut up and slice apples exactly as I do, and even use a Rada knife...as I do, I have a bunch of Cutco knives, but use the Rada like yours for fruit. | ||
| Post# 553188 , Reply# 7 10/31/2011 at 19:26 (4,561 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room) | ||
complains that today's apples just aren't as good a
I'm not sure about Now vs. Years Ago, but I have noticed that today there is a variation in apple quality. The best apples I can get come from an open air produce market. The worst are consistently the ones at a regular grocery store.
This pattern is pretty consistent across produce in general. Farmers markets and produce markets always have the best quality. They often have things available that no one else carries. There are duds in the mix--but I sample everyone, and know where to go locally. The funny thing is that it's not necessarily more expensive. Sometimes it is--but the quality is dramatically better. (Plus one is supporting local, small business--something that matters to me.) But sometimes there is little or no price difference. Farmer's markets can be dirt cheap. A regular produce market I shop has apples better than ANYTHING the grocery store has. They have apples no one else carries. And they actually have real customer service, not the new style of "I am your new best friend for life! But don't ask me any questions because I can't answer them!" This market's apples are priced at a level competitive with lousy apples in a regular grocery store. | ||
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Post# 553316 , Reply# 9 11/1/2011 at 09:08 (4,560 days old) by KenmoreGuy64 (Charlotte, NC) |
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Kevin -
Yep, I sure do remember both Wrigley's and Great Scott. I don't think we shopped at Great Scott much, but I'll have to ask Mom. In the early days in Rochester we had an A&P that we went to a lot (I remember being fascinated by the coin laundry in the same complex - it first had pink GE Filter-Flos, and later Turq. ones. She would never let me go in there). Behind that was an Azar's Big Boy restaurant. We also shopped at a Wrigley's which was next to a Kresge (did I spell that right?) store (the parent of K-Mart). We got our first miniature Christmas lights at that Kresge store in 1973, which I still have and still use!!! Later they built a Farmer Jack down on the 'new' side of Rochester Road, and a Chattam on whatever road that was which parallels Avon, and that's where we shopped mostly after that. Odd that I remember the Chatham experimenting with barcodes for price scanning in the mid-70s. In that same complex with the Chatham was a Mackus caffeteria. Ever hear of that? All my friend's older brothers and sisters seemed to work there in High School. There was also a Sears catalog store in that complex - that's where I got to see many of my favorite Kenmores, including the debut of the 'wet look' black panel machines in late fall 1975. We have Wal-Marts all over here as well naturally, but I wouldn't say their food markets dominate, not yet. Many don't have big food sections, but some do. We did have Kroger here in the 1980s, then they left, then came back, and left again. We've got Super Targets, but mainly two fairly local chains of Harris Teeter (based here) and Bi-Lo (based nearby in South Carolina). We also have some Lowes Foods (not to be confused with Lowes big-box stores). Fun Michigan memories Kevin! Gordon | ||
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Post# 553378 , Reply# 11 11/1/2011 at 14:15 (4,560 days old) by kevin313 (Detroit, Michigan) |
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Post# 553526 , Reply# 12 11/2/2011 at 00:16 (4,559 days old) by MattL (Flushing, MI) |
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Great, and I"ll try yours!
I broke down and bought some pie crusts today. I was in Sam's and they had an 8 pack of Pillsbury for $6.79, so I could not pass that up. My cousin is spending the night so I put a pie together in a few minutes, it was quite good, used some of my Crispin apples. | ||
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Post# 553544 , Reply# 13 11/2/2011 at 03:42 (4,559 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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neat recipes | ||
| Post# 554109 , Reply# 14 11/4/2011 at 15:34 (4,557 days old) by nmassman44 (Brooksville Florida) | ||
Well I made the recipe that Kevin provided...I used Red Delicious, Fuji and Cortland apples that I bought this morning at Wegmans. I cheated with the crust and used the Wegmans pie crust...here is the result...just out of the oven. I also did an egg white wash and sprinkled sugar over the crust...Smell is awesome!
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Post# 555202 , Reply# 16 11/8/2011 at 18:52 (4,553 days old) by kevin313 (Detroit, Michigan) |
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| Post# 555238 , Reply# 17 11/8/2011 at 20:21 (4,552 days old) by nmassman44 (Brooksville Florida) | ||
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