Golden Delicious Apples – Sweet apple with a mild flavor.Gala Apples – Fine textured flesh with a sweet aromatic flavor.Fuji Apples – One of our favorites! A crisp and clean flesh that is nice and sweet and gets even sweeter in storage.Empress Apples – Coarse-grained flesh with a flavor that is sweet and spicy reminiscent of apple cider.
Cortland Apples – Very white flesh and sweeter than a McIntosh apple.Crispin Apples – Also known as ” Mutsu”, juicy apple with a slightly tarter flavor than Golden Delicious makes great sauce.Cameo Apples – Sweet firm and crisp flesh with an aromatic flavor.Braeburn Apples – Firm flesh with a combination of sweet and tart flavor and do not release a lot of liquid when cooked.Ambrosia Apples – Firm flesh with a sweet flavor reminiscent of pear with low acidity.Here are our favorite apples for applesauce and apple butter… And because you are going to be cooking these apples down quite a bit you want to use apples that have flavors that hold up to prolonged cooking and canning. We think it is best to use 2 to 3 different varieties of apples when making applesauce and apple butter because each apple brings it’s own flavor profile…from sweet to tart. Some folks opt to freeze it instead and of course if you make small batches you can eat it straight from the fridge for a few days. When you make either applesauce or apple butter more than likely you are going to can it in jars for later. Where possible we have included some links to recipes that we have to use up those apples in your slow cooker.īest Apples For Applesauce & Apple Butter: But these days many apple varieties have been bred to have better and longer storage times so we can even get delicious apples all year long!īut how do we choose? Here are Crock-Pot Ladies best suggestions for what are the best apples to pick for various uses. Farmers markets and pick your own apple farms will have a better selection of locally grown apples.Īpple season usually runs from late July to Late October for locally grown apples. With a better open trade market and better transportation we now have a much broader variety of fresh apples to choose from in the grocery stores. Growing up there were really only three apple varieties that I can recall eating… Red Delicious, Golden Delicious and Granny Smith. Some apples have flesh that holds it shape when cooked and some apples are easier to process into applesauce or apple butter. Some apples are more sweet and some apples are more tart. Some apples are just plain better for cooking versus eat fresh. Whether you grow your own apples in your backyard or buy them at the farmers market, grocery store or pick your own farm it is always a good idea to know what kind of apples to use for whatever dish you are making. Pin this guide on Pinterest Guide To Picking The Best Apples
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