Apples

The one everybody asks for. Explosively crisp, honey-sweet, with just enough tartness to keep it from being boring.

• Fresh Eating
• Cider

Soft, aromatic and properly tart. Breaks down beautifully — this is your sauce apple.

• Sauce
• Baking
• Cider

Mild, mellow and easygoing. The apple kids will actually finish.

• Snacking

An eating apple, first one of the year.

Yellow-green with a red blush, crisp and honeyed — and it won't brown once you cut it, so it's the one for a fruit salad you're not eating right away. One of the very first apples of the season — the true sign fall's started.

• Snacking
• Salads

A cooking apple. Sauce in twenty minutes.

Tart, snappy, deep red skin over white flesh. Doesn't keep long, so this is the one you eat fresh or cook down this week.

• Sauce
• Baking