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Candy apples (or toffee apples in Commonwealth English) are whole apples covered in a sugar candy coating, with a stick inserted as a handle. These are a common treat at fall festivals in Western culture in the Northern Hemisphere , such as Halloween and Guy Fawkes Night , because these festivals occur in the wake of annual apple harvests. [ 1 ]
In 1922, Ulysses Hedrick described Esopus Spitzenburg (sometimes simply called "Spitzenberg") as "one of the leading American apples ... [A]bout the best to eat out of hand, and very good for all culinary purposes as well." [4] In particular, it is a good apple for baking pies and is also valued as a cider apple. [5]
An early candy apple recipe from a 1923 book on children's parties. The recipe uses a brown sugar caramel glaze. Hunter's Candy in Moscow, Idaho began selling caramel apples in 1936. Hard-coated candy apples had been around since the late 19th century, [3] but Hunter's Candy created a new treat by coating the apples with their caramel. During ...
Among its specialty characteristics is that it does not brown quickly even if cut open, and keeps shape and texture at high temperature baking. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Lady Alice is distinguished from other cultivars with its pink blush over creamy-yellow background; the background color darkens after harvest.
Apple cobbler (also known as apple slump, apple grunt, and apple pandowdy) is an old recipe in which the baked apples are topped with a cobbler crust formed of batter, pie crust or baking powder biscuit dough. The topping may be dropped onto the top of the apples in clumps, which have a 'cobbled' appearance, thus the name. A 'grunt' is a ...
The MN55 cultivar apple developed by David Bedford, a senior researcher and research pomologist at the University of Minnesota's apple-breeding program, and James Luby, PhD, professor, Department of Horticultural Sciences, Horticultural Research Center, is a cross between Honeycrisp and MonArk (AA44), a non-patented apple variety grown in Arkansas.
As a result of the Honeycrisp apple's growing popularity, the government of Nova Scotia, Canada, spent over C$1.5 million funding a five-year Honeycrisp Orchard Renewal Program from 2005 to 2010 to subsidize apple producers to replace older trees (mainly McIntosh) with newer higher-return varieties of apples: the Honeycrisp, Gala, and Ambrosia.
A way for candy makers to show that a candy was trademarked was to stamp an image or initials on the candy. [ 4 ] In the late 19th century and especially the early 20th century, industrial candy making was almost exclusively a masculine affair, and home-based candy making was a feminine affair. [ 5 ]