Cloud Mountain Farm Harvest 2004 Report
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jinianApples
"Jonamac" -- Complex flavor, okay texture, not very sweet or tart.
"Pinova" -- Tartish.
"Spartan" -- Nice crisp texture, mild flavor.
"Idared" -- Tart and crisp, very nice.
"Elstar" -- A better version of Idared. *
"Royal Empire" -- Very crisp, nice complex flavor. *
"Creston" -- Sweet, interesting.
"Ashmead's Kernal [sic]" -- Very tart! Small, light brown. Originates before 1700.
"Karmijn de Sonneville" -- Tart! Excellent flavor. *
"Royka Rezita" -- Complex.
"Brown Snout" -- Cider apple. Not tasted, just written down for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Pears
UC-848 -- WSU trial fruit, an apple/pear cross with excellent traits from both parents.
"Shipova" -- Claimed to be a mountain-ash/pear cross, which is cross-generic but in the same subfamily; possible, but I look askance at it. Interesting flavor, but hard and not sweet so not particularly nice.rubricity suggested cooking with meat.
Grapes
"Canadice" -- Sweet-tart, with a flavor like wild berries.
"Interlaken" -- Strong and sweet.
"Neptune" -- Tart and interesting.
"Saturn" -- Very tart.
"Lynden Blue" -- Classic grape flavor, sweet.
Currants and Gooseberries
White pearl currant -- Sweet and balanced.
"Orus-8" -- Currant/gooseberry cross. Sweet-tart with Mahonia-like flavors.
"Poorman" gooseberry -- Tart and well flavored.
"Consort" currant -- Very flavorful with somewhat bitter finish.
Quince
Oh, so that's what a quince is like raw. Not even notably sour, rather like "Shipova", only more so. I did not taste the skin, but it was said to be very tannic.
They were out of Honeycrisps, alas, but I got Elstars, which are excellent apples for cooking as well as eating fresh, and a few pears, plus two pie pumpkins for very cheap.
And we had a lovely drive, so pleasant I didn't even finish The Grand Tour before coming home. Good conversation, though I had a hard time hearing (migraine threat? road noise?), and beautiful scenery. Plenty of turning trees along the road, though not as many as there'll be in a week or two, and great views of Mt. Baker and its associates.
Also one of the large LED displays that shows time and temperature added to those data "PREGNANT?" and then "DON'T KNOW", which cracked us up. (It went on to say "WHO TO CALL" and suggest a clinic that sounded like an anti-abortion place.) Wim, who is very smart, thought that it should've been a radar area, like those signs that tell you how fast you're going, only maybe ultrasound instead for the in-motion pregnancy test.
"Jonamac" -- Complex flavor, okay texture, not very sweet or tart.
"Pinova" -- Tartish.
"Spartan" -- Nice crisp texture, mild flavor.
"Idared" -- Tart and crisp, very nice.
"Elstar" -- A better version of Idared. *
"Royal Empire" -- Very crisp, nice complex flavor. *
"Creston" -- Sweet, interesting.
"Ashmead's Kernal [sic]" -- Very tart! Small, light brown. Originates before 1700.
"Karmijn de Sonneville" -- Tart! Excellent flavor. *
"Royka Rezita" -- Complex.
"Brown Snout" -- Cider apple. Not tasted, just written down for
dustbath.Pears
UC-848 -- WSU trial fruit, an apple/pear cross with excellent traits from both parents.
"Shipova" -- Claimed to be a mountain-ash/pear cross, which is cross-generic but in the same subfamily; possible, but I look askance at it. Interesting flavor, but hard and not sweet so not particularly nice.
rubricity suggested cooking with meat.Grapes
"Canadice" -- Sweet-tart, with a flavor like wild berries.
"Interlaken" -- Strong and sweet.
"Neptune" -- Tart and interesting.
"Saturn" -- Very tart.
"Lynden Blue" -- Classic grape flavor, sweet.
Currants and Gooseberries
White pearl currant -- Sweet and balanced.
"Orus-8" -- Currant/gooseberry cross. Sweet-tart with Mahonia-like flavors.
"Poorman" gooseberry -- Tart and well flavored.
"Consort" currant -- Very flavorful with somewhat bitter finish.
Quince
Oh, so that's what a quince is like raw. Not even notably sour, rather like "Shipova", only more so. I did not taste the skin, but it was said to be very tannic.
They were out of Honeycrisps, alas, but I got Elstars, which are excellent apples for cooking as well as eating fresh, and a few pears, plus two pie pumpkins for very cheap.
And we had a lovely drive, so pleasant I didn't even finish The Grand Tour before coming home. Good conversation, though I had a hard time hearing (migraine threat? road noise?), and beautiful scenery. Plenty of turning trees along the road, though not as many as there'll be in a week or two, and great views of Mt. Baker and its associates.
Also one of the large LED displays that shows time and temperature added to those data "PREGNANT?" and then "DON'T KNOW", which cracked us up. (It went on to say "WHO TO CALL" and suggest a clinic that sounded like an anti-abortion place.) Wim, who is very smart, thought that it should've been a radar area, like those signs that tell you how fast you're going, only maybe ultrasound instead for the in-motion pregnancy test.
