The apple most home cooks reach for in fall is not always the right one for baking. It might taste great right off the tree and looks fine in the cart, but neither quality tells the whole story once the apple hits a hot oven. The qualities that make an apple great for snacking are not always the qualities that make it great in a pie.
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