Apples for baking

Many apple varieties can be used for baking. Author Amy Traverso recommends Pink Lady and Jazz apples for baking whole (they retain their shape and, unlike other varieties, their red hue). Here are some other apples growing at local orchards to use in pies, crisps, and cakes.

Baldwin

Black Oxford (growing in N.H. and Maine)

Cortland

Golden Delicious

Granny Smith

Gravenstein

Idared

Jazz (growing at very few
orchards)

Mutsu

Northern Spy

Pink lady

Rhode Island Greening