What's It Like?
  • The fruit is large
  • there is a clear-yellow shade with bright-red tints, distinctly streaked with the yellow under-colour
  • very juicy, crisp, tender and sweet with a rich, aromatic subacid flavor

Best Uses
  • "Spys for pies!" says Nan, the pie baking champion of Central Lake. 
  • Good for sauce, baking, pies and freezing

Special Hint
  • the best cooking apple

Availability
  • Spying's best from October to March
NORTHERN SPY may have originally been called Northern Pie Apple, and is also known as Red Spy and Red Northern Spy. It was found in an orchard at East Bloomfield, New York, with seedlings brought from Connecticut about 1800. It has been selected for use in the development of new varieties and in rootstock research.