What To Do With Apples?

Pink.

Hi spenaholic chick,

There's a recent thread on using apples that should help so I've merged your thread with it to keep all the suggestions together.

Pink

Atalanta

Thanks Pink-winged, there's loads of brilliant suggestions there.

filigree_2

This is my favourite apple cake recipe, sorry if I've already posted it somewhere!

Apple and Sultana tea loaf

6 oz marge or soft butter
6 oz caster sugar, golden is nice
3 beaten eggs
6 oz self raising flour sifted with 2tsp cinnamon
6 oz raisins or sultanas
2 eating apples, peeled cored and grated
2 oz ground almonds

Cream together the butter and sugar
Stir in the eggs
Fold in the flour/cinnamon
Stir in the sultanas, apple and almonds

Spoon into a 2lb loaf tin that has been lined with baking parchment. Bake for about 1 hour - 1 hour 15 mins. I use a fan oven at 160 degrees.

Leave it to cool in the tin then turn out and eat in slices - no need for butter. Ice cream is nice though

reehsetin

this may sound very weird but i love apple crumble just not the crumble, how can i make just the apple bit, just in a ban with a bit of sugar? will it cook in the same way just in a pan or does it need to go in the oven?

filigree_2

reehsetin wrote: »

this may sound very weird but i love apple crumble just not the crumble, how can i make just the apple bit, just in a ban with a bit of sugar? will it cook in the same way just in a pan or does it need to go in the oven?

You can cook it in a pan with sugar and a little bit of water, or you can cook it in the oven at the same time as something else like a roast or casserole. You can even cook it in the microwave, I did that the other day and it was fine. I can't remember the timings, just zap it for one minute at a time till it looks done.

M.E.

Very easy recipe for apple compote or "smashed apple" in our house.

Wash apples, take off the stalk and any leaves.
Chop the apples into chunks. Put into a microwave safe bowl. I use a large pyrex bowl, takes about 8 - 12 windfalls when cut up.
Squirt some lemon juice over the apples ( to keep them from going brown).
Add half a cup of water.
Cover.
I use a pyrex plate.
Zap for 5 minutes. Stir. Zap. Stir. Zap. (Time varies depending on microwave and kind of apple)
The apples will go fluffy and soft. When all the apples are soft and mush down, simply sieve using a plastic spoon through a fairly open sieve.
All the pips/skin/core gets left behind in the sieve.Chuck on the compost heap.
In the container underneath you are left with really smooth apple puree or compote.
This can be put into small poly bags and frozen, or into jars. Will keep in the fridge for several weeks.
Sweeten when you use it, as much as you want. Children love it.No bits.

lindens

I have been giving a small box of mainly eating apples and need to use them up. I have made my chutney already and now have no jars so cant do that.
I was going to part-stew a load and then freeze it - then can use it for pies etc. Is that a good idea? I haven't stewed for ages, what proportion of apple and sugar should I use or just keep tasting it??

Penelope_Penguin

Hi, there. Eating apples tend not to cook very well - they don't soften and cook down like cookers.

How about tarte tatin? Or just eat them!

If you do decide to try cooking them, the proportion of sugar depends on the variety, and how much sweetness you like. We have 2 old cooking apple trees and I don't use sugar when I cook with either, though the Small Penguins add some sugar at the table.

Penny. x

D&DD

Hi Lindens if I am going to use them for pies I normally first drop them in 1/4 cup of lemon juice to 1 cup water to keep their colour.I generally half fill my biggest pan with apple slices,sprinkle them with a tablespoon of sugar then and add water to literally just cover the apples then parboil them til they just start to change colour.Strain and dry off carefully then I pack them into rigid containers seperating the layers into around a piesworth I use a layer of easyleave from lakelands in between but you can also use a sandwich bag cut in two (I get cheap 12p packs from Wilkos) HTH

Penelope_Penguin

Plenty more ideas on this older thread - what to do with apples?

It includes ideas for eating apples.

HTH, Penny. x