Cabashea
- Description
- From Western New York. Often cited as being too large for cooking, despite having an acceptable taste.
- Flesh quality
- Rather firm, coarse, crisp, juicy, subacid or quite acid, fair for dessert, and good for cooking.
- Flesh color
- yellow tinged, green
- Skin quality
- Moderately tender, smooth, and slightly unctuous,
- Skin color
- yellow-green blushed, yellow-green mottled, yellow-red blushed, red striped
- Sizes
- very large, large
- Shape
- round, elliptical, ribbed, oblate
- Uses
- dessert, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- September
- Eating season ends in
- October
- Also known as
- Cabashie
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 28.