Apples: The Taste of Variety and Health

The apple, a member of the Rose family, is a very unusual fruit. To celebrate this delicious and healthy fruit, www.earths-best-e-books.com has published a website with 91 free apple recipes at http://www.earths-best-e-books.com/apple-recipes.

San Diego, CA (PRWEBP July 6, 2006 -- The apple, a member of the Rose family, is a very unusual fruit. To celebrate this delicious and healthy fruit, www.earths-best-e-books.com has published a website with 91 free apple recipes at http://www.earths-best-e-books.com/apple-recipes.

The apple, a member of the Rose family, is a very unusual fruit. Take a seed from a Pippin apple, for example and plant it in your garden. When the apple tree grows you would expect to see Pippins on the branch, but you would be wrong.

Apples do not grow true from seed. Each time a seed is planted a different variety of apple appears. Most of these “New Apples” or cultivars are sour to the taste and usually not very pretty to look at. So when a new variety of apple appears which is sweet on the tongue and easy on the eyes, a fortune can be made.

Pippin apples and all the different kinds of apples thus originate from one tree. A trees whose branches have been grafted on root stock to create orchards of Pippin or Red Delicious or Fujis , etc.

How did Apples become an American fruit? “American as apple pie,” is a phrase that harkens to our American heritage. Originally from Central Asia, the apple was brought over by early settlers. Eventually one man, known as Johnny Appleseed crossed the plains and mountains going every westward, planting apple seeds where ever he roamed. The orchards that sprang up was his gift to the pioneers who came after him.

But most of the time the fruit grown from these seeds were not edible. What did these pioneers use the fruit for? Hard apple cider. The juice from pressed apples is easy to ferment. Hard apple cider or applejack became a mainstay alcoholic beverage for the first European colonists in America and for their descendents. In fact, applejack was readily available until Prohibition was enacted in the 1920’s. This ban on the manufacturing and selling of alcohol almost put apple farmers out of business.

An advertising slogan saved the day for the apple industry. “An apple a day, keeps the doctor away,” helped convince the general public to buy apples for both their flavor and for their nutritional value. Concentrating on fruit that is lovely to look at and full of individual flavor has lead to our grocery stores loaded with all the different apples we see today: Macintosh, Golden Delicious, Gala, Fuji, Pippin, Granny Smith and 7500 other varieties.

To celebrate the Apple, www.earths-best-e-books.com has published a website with 91 apple recipes available at http://www.earths-best-e-books.com/apple-recipes.

Individual recipes can be printed and include: APPLE CRISP, APPLE CAKE, APPLE CHARLOTTE, APPLE-ORANGE COMPOTE, APPLE DUMPLINGS, APPLE FRITTERS, SAGO APPLE PUDDING, APPLE SAUCE, APPLE SOUP, APPLE OMELET, APPLE PIE, APPLE BUTTER (with cider), BUTTERSCOTCH APPLES, etc.

About the author, Sam Frea: is an amatuer chef whose love of apples lead him to publish http://www.earths-best-e-books.com/apple-recipes.

Contact:
Sam Frea
http://www.earths-best-e-books.com

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