Apple: Dandee Mac

[redbird]

Dandee Mac is pretty good for an early-season apple: it's crisp and reasonably juicy, and tastes like an apple. It's worth eating, unlike a lot of early-season apples varieties, whose virtue seems limited to how early they ripen; I might get more of these next week, if nothing I like better has come along by then.

I didn't name this one either. It's another early-season apple from the (Arlington) farmers' market; the vendor told cattitude that it's a mutationn of the Macintosh, which seems plausible. (The Orange Pippin website doesn't have a listing for "Dandee Mac" but does have a bare-bones entry for "Dandee red" as having Macintosh flavor and keeping well.)

Comments

[ljgeoff]

Hmm... I'll have to keep a lookout for this; sounds good!

[alatefeline]

*crunch crunch*

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

This time of year, I'm pretty grateful for the ability to ship apples up from the Southern Hemisphere.

[redbird]

There is that, though not for much longer. What I'm doing is less about a strong desire for local apples than about wanting to try new-to-me varieties. That includes some that grow around here but not in the lower Hudson Valley.