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Puritan is an early season apple variety. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cattitude bought a couple at the farmers' market, because we'd never heard of them. I googled a bit, and the usually useful orangepippin.com said "Red skinned apple covered with small white dots. Soft texture, tart flavored." They also inform me that it was developed by the Massachusetts Agricultural Extension Station.
They're right about the tart flavor and soft texture, but the ones we got are more green than red, and had no white dots. It's possible that they were underripe, which would explain the blandness. Cattitude's reaction was that he would try it again a year from now; mine was that I wouldn't bother. (Last week the market had Lodi and Vista Bella, both of which I already knew I don't like.)
We also bought some "J Mac" apples, which may or may not be the same as Jersey Mac ("J Mac apple" was completely useless as a search string, and adding "variety" still got me mostly computer references), and will try those next.
cattitude bought a couple at the farmers' market, because we'd never heard of them. I googled a bit, and the usually useful orangepippin.com said "Red skinned apple covered with small white dots. Soft texture, tart flavored." They also inform me that it was developed by the Massachusetts Agricultural Extension Station.They're right about the tart flavor and soft texture, but the ones we got are more green than red, and had no white dots. It's possible that they were underripe, which would explain the blandness. Cattitude's reaction was that he would try it again a year from now; mine was that I wouldn't bother. (Last week the market had Lodi and Vista Bella, both of which I already knew I don't like.)
We also bought some "J Mac" apples, which may or may not be the same as Jersey Mac ("J Mac apple" was completely useless as a search string, and adding "variety" still got me mostly computer references), and will try those next.