Apple review: Puritan

[redbird]

Puritan is an early season apple variety. 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.

Comments

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

I'm not a huge fan of MacIntosh either, but I got a few of the J Macs because it's the beginning of apple season and I couldn't resist. (I didn't see anybody selling apples yesterday except Kimball's.) I was disappointed by the J Mac I ate yesterday. It seemed dry, and not especially crisp.

The pale yellow ones at Kimball's were almost certainly Lodi. Having tried one, I suspect they're mostly good for applesauce. The texture cries out to be cooked into mush.

Thank you for the pointer to good peaches! I had a few serious disappointments last year, from the Davis and Arlington markets.