If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Carl Sagan I'm good with the King Arthur recipe :) We have four apple trees. One is a Golden Russet which once hit with a couple of good frosts offer the sweetest little apples. The second is a Northern Spy tree which inevitably find their way into pies, muffins, waffles and tomato pasta sauce. The third is our tree of many cultivars. I love this tree and am thankful for the man "Frank" who, whenever he came across a delicious apple would graft a branch onto the trunk. We have counted 9 different apples cultivars including one so large when sliced it covers a generous slice of bread. I suspect a Wolf River apple. The fourth is a small apple, not quite crab small but still smaller then a Russet. It turns a deep red in the Fall and is perfect for making jellies.

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