I read an Old Wives tale and it said: you should combine the alphabet and an apple to find your true love. While turning the pip of an apple, recite the letters in the alphabet. The letter at which the pip falls off is the first letter of the name of your true love. (is it the stem?)
What is a pip?
Thanks.
Isabelle
It’s the seed
A pip is Britiash slang for “seed”.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a pip is
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But back when I was in school, we used the stem - I’ve never heard of the seed being used that way.
In context, it does sound like this ‘turning the pip’ thing is talking about the stalk
Oh what do those pips know? If you want the name of your true love, peel the apple in a long, thin band, then drop it on a tabletop. It’ll fall into the shape of your love’s first initial.
If you get varying results do not worry: if you look at the side of your left hand between the pinkie and the heel, you’ll see at least one crease. Some people have more than one. The number of creases predicts the number of times you’ll marry.
The pip is the seed, but that twisting thing is the stem. I remember it from school. Many schools ago.
And after you twist the stem off, you poke it into the skin while reciting the alphabet again. The letter where it breaks through is your future spouse’s last initial.
And does anybody else have memories of “[sub]a b c[/sub] (yank)D [sub]e f g[/sub]”, and the like, when one had a particular person in mind?
Yes. And because I am not married to Lori, I know that the apples lie.
Yep. Too bad I don’t eat apples anymore. I could pull out the stem on C. 
I think that what is referred to is the blossom end of the fruit or apple.
Possibly the stem but which has no direction to the seeds as does the blossom.