Old Southern Apples, Revised & Expanded by Creighton Lee Calhoun Jr.

Not far from the cliff above Muddy Creek, I found an old cellar hole, nearby a settled pairing of scraggly lilac and apple tree. Autumn’s HeirloomsĪdventurous in my walking, I studied the growing wood near my home. This entry was posted in Antique apples and other orchard fruit, Baking with Orchard Fruits, cooking with heirloom apples, Heirloom Apple Varieties, Heirloom Apples and Cheese and tagged American baking apple, American heirloom apples, antique apple orchard, antique apple photographs, antique apple pictures, antique apples, apple orchard, apple trees, apples, Bramley's Seedling, Calville Blanc d'Hiver, clothbound cheddar, David Tansey, English heirloom apples, food, French baking apple, fruit, hard cider iced, heirloom apple orchard, heirloom apple pictures, heirloom apple pie, heirloom apple trees, Heirloom apples, heirloom apples and cheese, heirloom apples baking, heirloom apples cooking, heritage apple orchard, heritage apples, iced cider, Jane Booth, Jane Booth garden photographer, Jane Booth garden writer/photographer, Jane Booth photographer, Jane Booth writer/photographer, Northern Spy, Rhode Island Greening, Shelburne Farms cheddar cheese, uncommon apples, unusual apples, Vermont food, Vermont heirloom apple orchard, Vermont heirloom apples on Maby Jane Booth. We vow to do just so when the new crop of apples are ready for harvest. Tasting the clothbound cheddar again I tell David the cave-aged mushroom mustiness would be an excellent foil to the carmalized sweetness of a tarte tatin made with Calville Blanc d’Hiver, a fine French cooking apple dating to 1598. We try the same effect again with a creamy cheddar from Shelburne Farms, not as sharp but just as nice with the pie. The cheese adds a sharp tangy crumbly bite cutting into the sweet sureness of apple, flavors melding into a taste sensation. And says all things yummy when I suggest he try a bite with a piece of Grafton’s clothbound cheddar attached to his forkful of apples and crust. Admires it more when he tucks into a slice. My husband admires the way it looks it from the time he arrives home for lunch.

The pie, much to my delight, is a success. It is my absolute favorite when baking a tarte tatin. Calville Blanc d’Hiver, the classic French baking apple has a crown shaped base.

Old Southern Apples, Revised & Expanded by Creighton Lee Calhoun Jr.