I've been enjoying, of all things, Gingergold apples that I found in a local supermarket.
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Every Gingergold I have ever had has been local and fresh. The commercial space they occupy is pretty far from that contested by Honeycrisp and its pretenders.
Yet these Gingergolds had clearly been in industrial-grade storage. Each wore a glistening coating of wax.
In August, Gingergold is refreshing and light, sweet and a little spicy, and very easy to like.
They are so wonderfully crisp that I suggest Gingergold as something for Honeycrisp fanatics to console themselves with while they wait for the Great Sugarball harvest just a bit later in the summer or early fall.
So how do they fare in storage, and at the hands of the great wholesale machine?
No one should expect an August apple to be pristine in April. The flavors were a bit stepped back, but the texture was very good.
For me, these evoked summer and the start of the harvest. A definite win!
Gingergold is named not for its spicy qualities but for a redhead.
I always look forward to gingergold's arrival in late summer. There's a semi-local commercial orchard in Atlantic Canada supplying the supermarket with them in what seems like very limited supply. It feels like a small lottery win when I find them!
ReplyDeleteWe don;t usually see these in supermarkets at all. Finding some in April was a real treat!
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