Apple - uses For Each Variety

Apples for Specific Use

Apples are a favorite fruit of many people for eating out of hand or in fresh salads. The fruit of many apple varieties are also excellent for making a wide variety of cooked products. Apples best suited to particular uses are indicated below.

Fresh

• McIntosh

• Cortland
• Jonathan
• Red Delicious
• Golden Delicious
• Stayman Winesap
• Melrose
• Franklin
• Prima

Applesauce

• Golden Delicious
• Melrose
• Yellow Transparent
• McIntosh
• Cortland
• Jonathan
• Grimes Golden
• Stayman Winesap
• Rome Beauty
• Lodi

Pies

• Cortland
• Jonathan
• Grimes Golden
• Melrose
• Rome Beauty
• Yellow Transparent
• McIntosh
• Golden Delicious
• Stayman Winesap
• Lodi

Baking

• Jonathan
• Golden Delicious
• Stayman Winesap
• Rome Beauty
• McIntosh
• Cortland
• Grimes Golden
• Melrose
• Stayman Winesap

Freezing for Slicing

• Jonathan
• Golden Delicious
• Stayman Winesap
• Red Delicious
• Grimes Golden
• McIntosh

Freezing for Sauce

• Yellow Transparent
• Wealthy
• Cortland
• McIntosh

Freezing for Baking

• Baldwin
• Northern Spy

Cider

The best cider is usually made from a blend of different varieties of apples. Varieties are grouped into four groups according to their suitability as cider material.

Sweet Subacid

• Rome Beauty
• Delicious
• Grimes Golden
• Cortland

Astringent (Crab apples)

• Florence Hibernal
• Red Siberian
• Transcendent
• Martha

Aromatic

• Red Delicious
• Golden Delicious
• McIntosh

Mildly Acid to Slightly Tart

• Stayman Winesap
• Jonathan

General Use

• Jonathan
• Golden Delicious
• Stayman Winesap
• Melrose