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Excess eating apples

davholla
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I have more eating apples than I can eat, any ideas what I can do with them? They are fiesta, jester and polero (all cox like apples).
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  • Nargleblast
    Nargleblast Posts: 10,762 Forumite
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    Use them as cooking apples. Pies, crumbles, Eve's pudding (sliced apples with sponge cake on top), cooked till soft then pur!ed to use with custard, ice cream, on toast, as a cake filling, with yoghourt. Apple sauce to serve with roast pork. If you can't decide, just peel and slice them and put them in the freezer to use another time.
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  • VfM4meplse
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    Stew them down and freeze. It's also handy to make crumble mix in advance and store in the freezer. Defrost the fruit overnight, add the crumble mix straight from the freezer and bake for a super-easy dessert and brilliant crowd-feeder. Just don't forget the cream and custard!
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  • Primrose
    Primrose Posts: 10,620 Forumite
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    Make apple butter ? Various recipes available courtesy of Google.
    Alternatively you could try peeling and coring them, then slicing them and slow drying/ dehydrating them on trays for several hours in a very low oven to eat as healthy snacks.
  • QueenB.
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    We have been blessed with a massive crop of apples from our little tree this year and I would agree with all the above posts, great ideas. You could also use some in jam or maybe give apple pie vodka a go. I'm not a big drinker but I have used some of my apples to make some of this to give as gifts this Christmas
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  • jackyann
    jackyann Posts: 3,433 Forumite
    Do you have somewhere cool to store them? How well I remember as a child carefully wrapping each apple in newspaper ( so that if it went off, it didn't infect any others) then we put them in drawers in my grandmother 's spare room, and collected a bag full from her every week. Depending on the variety, they keep for months, and if they go a bit soft for your liking, then use as above.
    The classic tarte tatin which I have to make at least once a year, can really only be made with eating apples. British cooking apples don't work.
    You can also bottle them.
  • frugalmacdugal
    frugalmacdugal Posts: 10,077 Forumite
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    edited 11 September 2017 at 5:24AM
    Hi,

    try a sliced apple and cheese sandwich, on brown bread.

    You can also try, tuna, diced onion and diced apple mixed, or use in curries.

    Edit: to that tuna mix you can add lemon juice/cider vinegar or salad cream/mayo.
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    small peeled cubes. Simmer gently for 40 mins with butter and small amount of sugar. A fanatastic base for crumble topping, to die for with crumbled uncooked flapjack mix. Then bake for 40 minutes. Apples off the tree will need to mature before eating raw
  • grunnie
    grunnie Posts: 1,789 Forumite
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    I have 3 apple trees and I store the apples in the garage. Wrap in newspaper so they don't touch each other and they will be fine.
  • culpepper
    culpepper Posts: 4,076 Forumite
    If you do decide to store some, treat them as though they were eggs when handling and any that get dropped or have marks, use at once.
  • maman
    maman Posts: 28,581 Forumite
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    Similar to other ideas but DH likes to make a compote (seems like stewed apple to me) for topping his morning muesli. I find it handy to add to braised red cabbage.
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