This recent planting effort joins other Newtown
Pippin apple tree plantings resulting from Mr. Baard's efforts.
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For Earth Day yesterday, TreeHugger TV dropped in at the Earth School on Manhattan's Lower East Side to listen in on a chat about New York City's own Newtown
Pippin apple and to plant a seedling with the gradeschoolers.
2 cans Bush's Bourbon & Brown Sugar Grillin» Beans 2 cans Bush's Authentic Smokehouse Tradition Grillin» Beans 1 large can mandarin orange segments, undrained 1 cup golden raisins 1
Pippin apple, minced 1/2 cup cane syrup (or molasses) 1/2 cup Sprite soda 1 small onion, minced 2 tablespoons yellow mustard 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, ground 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg, ground 1/2 cup ketchup 2 tablespoons orange juice 1 (8 - ounce) package refrigerated biscuits
In my latest shipment I received: quince, celery root (or celeriac), ribston
pippin apples, and pomegranates!
Newton
Pippin apples were the first apples exported from America, in 1768; some were sent to Benjamin Franklin in London.
Not exact matches
It's a mix of more than a half - dozen
apples that produce a consistent premium flavor including red delicious, gold delicious, gala, Fuji and granny smith, with the standout player being the Newtown
Pippin.
«Many varieties of
apples are used, including Jonathans, Winesaps, Staymans,
Pippins and Delicious
apples.
Tart
apples like
Pippin, Empire, Winesap, and Granny Smith retain their shapes when cooked, so choose them for this recipe.
2 1/4 pounds assorted
apples (such as Pink Lady,
Pippin, and Golden Delicious), peeled, quartered, cored, cut into 1 / 2 - inch - thick wedges
1 1/2 cups peeled, cored, chopped
apples (use a good cooking
apple such as Jonagold,
Pippin, Granny Smith, Jonathan, Golden Delicious, Gravenstein, Mcintosh)
Use any type of firm, tart
apple such as Granny Smith,
pippin, Northern Spy, or Sierra Beauty.
Colours range from red, to yellow and green, but all varieties fall into one of two categories: eating, also sometimes called dessert
apples (including Cox's Orange
Pippin, Golden Delicious, Granny Smiths, Braeburn, Gala, Pink Lady and Jonagold) or cooking, with the latter being more tart in flavour, a result of their higher levels of malic acid (the best is Bramley, though Blenheim Orange, Grenadier, Reverend W Wilkes and Ida Red are also available).
Tart
apples like
Pippin, Empire, Winesap, and Granny Smith retain their shapes when cooked, so choose them for this recipe.
The
apple trees were pretty bare at this time of year, but we still picked a few pounds of
pippins, red delicious, rubies, and granny smiths, all of which ended up in a pie I made later that night — JUST CALL ME QUEEN DOMESTIC.
Obsessed with the welfare of his
apple trees, especially his rare and delicate Golden
Pippins, James makes his orchard the third party in their relationship.
But
Apple also had Lisa, Newton,
Pippin, the G4 Cube, and a host of other failures.
Remove that from the equation and suddenly
apple's
Pippin ain't the worst selling console no more.
This week's Gaming Flashback is the Amiga classic Shadow of the Beast, while the Gaming History takes a look back at the
Apple Pippin.
This weeks gaming podcast covers some cool news, some cool haiku's and takes a look back at Paperboy and the history of the
Apple Bandai
Pippin.
Or as Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison from France, «They have no
apples here to compare with our Newtown
Pippin.»
You can join
Pippin restoration visionaries and Erik Baard, Helen Ho Edwin Yowell for a discussion of the
apple's history and potential future, and the projects long - term goals at Solar1 on April 27, 2009 from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm.
Green
Apple Cleaners, Slow Food NYC, GreenThumb, MillionTreesNYC, Cummins Nursery, and others are partnering to plant 50 Newtown
Pippin saplings (and 50 pollinators) this year in all five boroughs; in botanical gardens, museum grounds, schoolyards, community gardens, university campuses, and perhaps even select streets.
Still, gourmets to this day refer to the Newtown
Pippin as «the prince of
apples» and «the Founding
Apple.»
Michael Pollan writes, «The Newtown
Pippin is one of the all - time great American
apples — storied, delicious, and overdue for a comeback.»
More amazing history and hear what Michael Pollan has to say about the Newtown
Pippin when you let Newtonian physics pull you down through the fold.We lost this heritage through industrialization and unfortunate name games: In the 19th century, Virginians stripped the Yankee name from the
apple made fashionable by their luminaries (renaming it the Albemarle
Pippin for the Virginia county) and Newtown later changed its name to Elmhurst, Queens to avoid association with the polluted Newtown Creek.
The
Pippin was then grown in Virginia, but rebranded as the Abermarle
Pippin and for a century the Newtown
Pippin was forgotten except to foodies and historians, until Erik Baard stumbled upon the
apple in 2005.
In 2008, Baard began planting hundreds of Newtown
Pippins and other heirloom
apples in schools, community gardens and other public spaces throughout NYC, sponsored first by Green
Apple Cleaners and then New York Restoration Project.
The
Pippin was
Apple's 1995 entry into the video game console market; it was a failure and only 42,000 units were sold world wide.
Apple doesn't have the best history with OS X-powered gaming — anyone remember the
Pippin?