What I want to know is, what is your favorite kind of apple?
Today I ate an Aurora, a variety I haven't seen before. Big yellow apple, sweet and crisp with a good apple flavor, but no tartness. Ordinarily I like Braeburn apples best, crisp sweet-tart taste. But the Aurora tasted just like the Golden Delicious apples used to taste, decades ago when you could get one from a vending machine at school for a dime. It was good, and took me down memory lane. I'll get some more next time I go to the grocery store.
So what kind of apples do you like? How do you eat them? I like them peeled and sliced with a dab of peanut butter. I also like apple pie. I bought enough Braeburns for a pie, so that may be happening later on.
In my frig I have two large drawers full of a red apples, identity unknown, picked from some local trees that are more than 100 years old. I'm making apple sauce out of them one of these days. If you've only ever eaten apple sauce from a grocery store, you have to taste home-made applesauce.
I pour a half-gallon of fresh cider in a big pot, then I start peeling apples and cutting them up. I keep peeling and cutting apples until the pot is full and I can't get any more apples in it. Then I simmer it until the apples fall apart and become very soft. I add cinnamon and fresh lemon juice, whir the apples with my immersion blender, and give it a taste. Generally it doesn't need any sugar, as the cider is sweet. Cook it down a bit, and process it in jars in a water-bath canner.