Cooking Apples

Mrs_Optimist

I have access to mountains of cooking apples and have beeen busy making crumbles, apple sauce and giving them away but still they come. I can't bear the thought of wasting them but am crumbled out - does anyone have any other uses for them that they are happy to share? I have all the usual baking ingredients (but can't make pastry to save my life!):rotfl:

Pink.

Hi Mrs Optimist,

These threads should give you some ideas:

What to do with cooking apples?

Glut of Bramley and eating apples

Bramley apples & raiding the forest!

Help with bramley apple windfall

What To Do With Apples?

I'll add your thread to the first link later to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

RAS

Mrs_Optimist wrote: »

I have access to mountains of cooking apples and have been busy making crumbles, apple sauce and giving them away but still they come. I can't bear the thought of wasting them but am crumbled out - does anyone have any other uses for them that they are happy to share? I have all the usual baking ingredients (but can't make pastry to save my life!):rotfl:

Hi

The simplest thing you can do if they are Bramley's or similiar is to store the good sound ones in a cool place. They could last until spring if you keep them somewhere cool and damp like a garage as long as it does not freeze in there.

That is the whole point of the keeping apples like Bramley.

Use any that are bruised or have been attacked by wasps etc for the frozen foods.

Rikki

I cook and freeze in apple pie size portions.

mi_jardin

I am doing baked bramley apples, cored and stuffed with mincemeat, for dinner tonight. Other than that my idea list is limited to crumbles, pies and sauce like you!

horsechestnut

Apple cake.
Chutney.

Rikki

Cakes, apple crumble muffins and you could make your own mincemeat with them too.

ragz_2

You can make apple sauce and use it in place of fat when making certain cakes. Best google it though as I haven't done it.

YORKSHIRELASS

I am not one to normally turn down free food but I sympathise! I know people who freeze cooked apple for later use but I dont have much freezer space.

Hubby came in today with 3 carrier bags full of apples and I did groan a bit. I might put some in trays in the greenhouse to see if they will keep for a few weeks.