Apples are so underrated....

Especially green ones

Congratulations!

Two are better, and make sure to eat the core with its pips!

B-17 Laetrile.

We have the best apples here!

The Apple Culture of Normandy

Wine tours are famously popular in France. But up north there’s something besides wine that’s drawing foodies and beverage enthusiasts. Apples.

Apples? Normandy is often identified with D-Day landings and World War II history, and rightfully so. But there’s a lot more growing and cooking in Normandy. It’s true that, though France has many regions famous for wine, Normandy is not one of them. But it IS known for apples and all of the delicious derivatives of this noble fruit.

Why the connection between Normandy and apples? Normandy is France’s apple region. There are 800 varieties of apples grown there, and apple orchards have existed since at least the 8th century.

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If you want to see the real France, visit Normandy's little towns and villages!

Normandy – apples in the rhythm of centuries

Wine and brandy from apples is often an alternative in those places where vines cannot thrive. In Normandy, producers look in more detail into the quality spectrum of the fruit. In addition to the classic Calvados, the really rather rural cider has the talent to conquer a place in the hipster bars of this world – and is now getting unexpected competition from the neighbourhood.

Looking out of her window in Manoir d’Apreval, Agathe Letellier gazes out over 18 hectares of orchards, on which 1,800 apple trees stand proudly. “17 different varieties” adds the qualified agronomist. She has everything under control, from the blossom to the twenty-year stored Calvados. The only thing that drives her a little to distraction are some passing trade customers who drop in.

“They want to come in and buy without tasting”, she explains, because they all supposedly “already know” cider. That might well be the case when it comes to a simple cider you can buy in the supermarket. This could not be further from the truth when it comes to AOC-Cidre from Manoir d’Apreval. As is typical for small-scale manufacturers, Letellier combines the different properties of apples such as sugar, acidity and tannin content with skilled assemblage.

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They're shit computers with a closed architecture and operating system. Stupid overpriced things.

Cider FTW!

Cider will do you up like a kipper, as all English cider-drinkers know!

Distilled alcohol was also a valuable raw material during the Second World War and was needed by the occupying German forces. The only products exempted from this were those that were subject to territorial protection. The Agricultural Minister Jacques Le Roy Ladurie, himself from Normandy, cleverly launched an application for AOC, which the French authorities quickly, and equally so cleverly, approved in 1942. The quality and marketing chances increased significantly as a result.

After the war, the apple brandy was preferably distilled on a tax-free basis, in other words, without the knowledge of the authorities. In Paris, however, a “café-calva”, a small sip of apple brandy from the still warm coffee cup, was an integral part of their lunch break for many workers. And that is why no one asked any questions in this regard for a long time.

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Crêpes or even pancakes with cooked apples...

Yummy!

Apples With the Taste of Old Normandy

The province of Normandy in north-west France faces the English channel and is a favorite resort area. It is also an extremely rich land that is renowned for its superlative food and traditional dishes.

One finds an abundant use of butter and cream in the cookery, high grade meats from marsh-fed lambs and meadow-fed calves, savory game, a bounty of seafood, flavorful vegetables, wild mushrooms, famed cheeses such as Camembert, Pont-I'Eveque and triple creams - and apples.

Since ancient times Normandy has been a most important apple-growing area and the finest fruit grows in its orchards. Normandy apples have a great reputation in Europe. In Normandy apples are cooked with fish, meat, eggs, in sauces, jellied, candies and especially desserts.

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I live in eastern Washington state, very near Washington apple country. Apples have never been underrated here. Two years ago I planted three dwarf apple trees, and am looking forward to a few home-grown apples next year. Eating apples just makes me feel healthy.

I like apples

But they have to many carbs for me to enjoy them regularly

Like 59 carbs for a fuji apple

I like mine right off the tree, just after first frost.
Soooo sweet and juicy

Also if apples don't pull out your teeth they rot them eventually

That’s ridiculous

for me, it's apple cider and hard apple cider

Awe, wishes for smooth sailing sent. My mother craved chewing coal when she was pregnant with me, like, actual coal, that you put in the fire probably what's wrong with me.

Scrumpy, FTW!

You needed moar carbon!

Mums know best!

Batches sometimes vary, but there is a variety called "Envy"- imported out of New Zealand I think (we have them here at HEB in Texas) that are really good if you're looking for something to eat out of hand. Nice and crisp. Sweet with more flavor than a typical gala. Also fairly large - not as big as a honeycrisp, but pretty close.

Apple Brandy!

It appears that way, lol!

Yesss . I ordered small granny smiths with my groceries last time and they gave me the large ones for the same price. They're the size of softballs; HUMONGOUS and so delicious.

Lol thank you. It's twins. I'm super nervous.

I had easy pregnancies before but.... This is .. twins ...

:(

They say when you crave stuff like that it's a vitamin/mineral deficiency......

I'll have to look next time I go to HEB. I'm a Texan lol.

That sounds really yummy.

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twice the fun and twice the love

they'll have a wise Mum going by your signature

Thanks for the reminder was looking for a snack. I usually go for anything with red skins, the skin has various health benefits