Excess eating apples

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I have seven trees and have just picked the last I normally pick, a late eater called christmas pippin, gorgeous flavour btw. A whole month early. All those which are slightly blemished have been brought into the house and I will deal with them in the next few days. The others are now nestled in my slatted apple trays in a cool dark place to eat up to february. My go to way of dealing with the blemished apples is to prep in some way for my freezer

Primrose

Another nice recipe is stir fried onions, thinly shredded red cabbage, a mixture of cooking and eating apples , with some chopped frankfurters mixed in. The Bramles dissolve and help create some nice juice whereas the eating apples tend to stay firm. Good served with mashed potatoes.

Farway

They also make a nice chutney

MallyGirl

Primrose wrote: »

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.

Thanks for this - I had never heard of apple butter but I now have some going in the slow cooker. We have a big Bramley type tree which is producing a lot of windfalls in this weather so it is good to have a recipe for chunks of apple.
Next question will be how to use it but I'll see if it tastes any good first.

I love dried apples so I may give that a go next.

Primrose

I'm told Apple butter is delicious on pancakes, hot crumpets and toasted tea cakes as well as toast. I imagine it probably also goes well with porridge.

jackyann

I you look in American recipe books - or just look online where there are loads of American recipes, you will find 'apple butter' used extensively.

I am told that it was very popular in pioneering days when getting any dairy stuff was difficult, and of course, it would often not keep. But you could set aside time to prepare apples, and if careful, could boil them down over an open fire. Bottled (Sears used to ship huge numbers of preserving jars) it was then easier to keep than apples which would attract vermin. You then had a tasty store of Vitamin C for the winter.