What to do with cooking apples?

Ily

WOW.... just WOW!!!
You have offered me so many ideas! What a fantastic and resourceful community this is!

I am busy this week but as soon as Saturday comes, I shall have a trip down the bottom of the garden, collect a bucket of apples and, armed with a printout of your suggestions, I shall spend the day experimenting in the kitchen.

Thanks again for the wonderful suggestions, I can't wait to try them all!!!

zara*elise

Ooh, another option is apple sorbet... it's delicious! We had it in a haute cuisine restaurant and made an awesome palate cleanser.

Or, why not make jams and chutneys for gifts? Or sell them?

xx

keith969

The house that I grew up in as a kid had 2 cooking apple trees, one was a Bramley, forget what the other was.

Every autumn we would pick them and they were wrapped in a bit of newspaper each and stored in the shed to stay cool. This was in the 60's when we didn't have a freezer or anything fancy to preserve them - I seem to recall they kept until after Christmas fine.

Mum made the usual stuff with them - apple crumble, baked apples, apple & blackberry pie, you name it.

You could probably also make cider/wine out of them, we never tried that, only made wine from crabapples.

helyg

You could make chutneys and mincemeat for Christmas? My boss gives me loads of cooking apples from her garden and I use them for this every year.

thriftlady_2

This old thread might help- What to do With Cooking Apples

BramleyHouse

I have a whole tree of bramley cooking apples what can i make?

I have tried apple crumble before but fancied a bit of a change can you think of anything else?


Thanks:rotfl:

misskool

i'm going to make apple butter, cider and give it away to friends.

presumably you can dry them, make apple sauce

BramleyHouse

That sound great thanks might do the apple crumble!!

Do you know when you should pick them ?

Thanks

purpleivy

misskool wrote: »

i'm going to make apple butter, cider and give it away to friends.

presumably you can dry them, make apple sauce

Has anyone used a dehydrator for apples? Or plums?

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BramleyHouse wrote: »

Do you know when you should pick them ?

Thanks

Hi BramleyHouse,

When to pick will depend on where you live but I find end of September is best here.

There's an earlier thread with more suggestions on using bramley apples so I've added your thread to it to keep the replies together.

You might get some more ideas from this thread:

What To Do With Apples?

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