Apples and Irish Cream

DelMN · Nov 24, 2014

Since just about anything goes on this forum, I would like some info:

1. Best apples for apple pie?

2. Recepie for Irish cream without eggs?

Thanks in advance!!

JD Dave · Nov 24, 2014

Jonathan for apple pie.
Sorry, - can't answer the irish cream question.

Charles in Aus. · Nov 24, 2014

Granny Smith apples are certainly the best we have found for cooking . Don't know if they are available in the US though .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granny_Smith

Stan in Oly, WA · Nov 24, 2014

Hi Charles;

Granny Smith apples are widely available in the U.S. They often sell for less than other varieties because they're not a good eating apple, and fewer people cook nowadays than in the past. Plenty of people still cook if you expand the definition of cooking to include what mainly amounts to heating up prepared (or mostly prepared) foods. Making a pie from the basic ingredients (we say "from scratch"--do you use that expression there, too?) is real cooking, and not such a high proportion of Americans do that any more.

Stan

SweetFeet · Nov 24, 2014

If you can buy Honey Crisp apples in your area - they are the best apple on the planet. Truly.

Great for pies, crisps, carameled apples, applesauce, baked apples, added to fruit salads or just munching a fresh one.

A very crispy, juicy apple that is sweet-yet somewhat tart. Developed in MN, I think. We like them so much we planted two trees.

RickieBlue · Nov 24, 2014

I have 2 recipes...one has eggs..I am sure there will be a few people that will want to save a recipe so here they are...
#1 Recipe with out eggs
* 1 cup heavy cream
* 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
* 1 2/3 cups Irish whiskey
* 1 teaspoon instant coffee granules
* 2 tablespoons chocolate syrup
* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
* 1 teaspoon almond extract
#2 Recipe with eggs
1 (14ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
2 tablespoons chocolate syrup (like Hershey's)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract or use whisky that
has soaked in vanilla beans
2 eggs
12 ounces whiskey
1 cup light cream
Enjoy!!!!

JD Dave · Nov 24, 2014

I recommend Jonathan nevertheless over any other varieties as they have an astringency and sugar content like no other apple. Now I'll grant you they are hard to find. They are an old variety grown mostly in the midwest years and years ago. We have a several hundred trees on our farm and have a following for Jonathan for cooking and baking. Once you try them you'll never go back.

Charles in Aus. · Nov 24, 2014

(quoted from post at 23:13:00 11/24/14) Hi Charles;

Granny Smith apples are widely available in the U.S.
Stan

Nice to know a few Australian things have found favour overseas Stan .

Up until the late 1960's the average backyard without a Granny Smith apple tree in it would have been a rarity . Everyone had at least one , and Jonathans and Gravenstiens as well .
The housing estate boom in the late seventies and eighties put paid to this , small blocks of land and big houses . A generation that thinks everything comes out of a tin doesn't help either .

GordoSD · Nov 24, 2014

GRANNYS here for pie and Harrelson for applesauce.

JimDRIl · Nov 25, 2014

Second the Jonathans.

TAS · Nov 25, 2014

For pies I like to try to use several different varieties of apples in the same pie so that you get a nice blend of flavors. So in the fall, I pick or buy several flavors and try to freeze an assortment in each ziplock that I later will pull out of the freezer to make a pie.

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