this puts me in mind to go to the Farmers market this afternoon and get some lovely apples to make an Eve's Pudding!

Being in Los Angeles, the only way to find really good old varieties of apples is to go to a farmer's market. The ones in the stores are nice but they are all mostly new varieties and come from japan or New Zeland. nothing wrong tose apples mind you but they just aren't quite the same as heirloom varities with more dappled skins and less perfect shapes. Back East in new York, we had a wider selection of old types which I miss.