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[Dizzy-Deb]

In field next to where I work there is an apple tree which is bursting with apples this year.

 

Seems a shame to let them fall and rot, so have been busy baking a few apple pies and crumbles this week, but wondered if anyone had any suggestions as to what other things could do. I am not very good in kitchen but willing to have a go.

 

Thanksxx

[BeckyBoo]

Seasonal chutney a la HFW's preserves book is a good one, apples can be used in jam, you can put them into pasties which I'm fairly sure would freeze (like a cornish pasty but apple!) I've never been very good at drying them into rings but they make good fruit leathers

 

BeckyBoo

[Olly]

I usually have this problem - sadly not this year, as my most prolific tree is a late flowering one, and it got caught by the frost. Chutney, apple jelly, stewed apple for the freezer; apple sauce; Eve's pudding, apple crumble, Apple Snow; baked apples, apple dumplings; spiced apple cake. I still run out of things to do with them, and then I Freecycle them or give them away to friends.

[SJChick]

Hi

 

My old Aunt used to have loads of apples from her garden and she wrapped them individually in newspaper and laid them in empty drawers in dressers etc in cooler rooms in the house and they kept right into the winter and she just used them as she needed them! The year before last we gathered what we had in the garden and laid them side by side on a shelf in our shed and used them for puddings and crumbles etc into the Autumn and most of them were fine. One or two went a bit squish but not too many.

[Dizzy-Deb]

thanks for great suggestions, really appreciate it.

 

I have just been googling too and see loads of recipies for some kind of apple cake... if only I had my chucks and they were laying it would be great to be baking something with them.

 

I like the idea of storing them, so if they havent all been scrumped when get back to work on Tues will go get some more. The tree been there for years but never had such a bountiful crop. Must have been right conditions this year for it.

 

I have only got a few left from todays collection so will do a bit of apple sauce with them.

[BeckyBoo]

OOOoooh, Dorset Apple cake - my favourite cake in the world - AND IT FREEZES!!! Really lovely with a bit of cinammon in, or you can add sultanas, nice warm from the oven with thick cream.......oooh, I know what I'll be making tomorrow

 

BeckyBoo

[stehaggan]

German baked apple cake

 

 

NGREDIENTS: (for 3 servings)

3 small apples (i used Bramaer Red Apples - small and sweet)

3/4 oz raisins

1 3/4 oz marzipan (i used plain white marzipan)

1 TBS vanilla essence (the actual recipe said dark rum so you could try that, but the calories will go sky high *lol*)

1 cinnamon stick (cut into 3 sections)

1 egg

1/2 cup flour

1/4 cup stork marg

1/4 cup ground almonds

1/2 TBS baking powder

1/4 cup canderel (or fine caster sugar if you don't care about the cals)

1 pinch salt

1 generous pinch Ground Cinnamon

Icing Sugar to dust (optional)

 

Pre-Heat your oven to 180c. Grease your baking tin (i used baking paper cause i'm lazy *lol*)

Core your apples

Mix together Marzipan, Raisins and Vanilla Essence (or Rum).

Stuff mixture into your cored apples, so a little peeps over the top.

Place in 1 section of cinammon stick

Set to the side for now.

 

Chuck marg, canderel, ground cinammon, salt, flour, ground almonds, baking powder in a bowl, crack in your egg and mix up the whole lot.

When creamy thick consistency, chuck it in your baking tray.

Put your apples into the mixture.

Bake for around 25 mins or till golden!

 

Its low calorie too!!!

 

EAT EAT EAT!

x

[Alis girls]

I was going to post this. I am in danger of being burried under a mountain of the things from our tree. They are a cross between bramleys and an eater. I have made apple and plum jam, apple and balckberry and apple an blackcurrant. The worst of it is there are some apples over looking our allotment and no picks them - different variety but I hate seeing them go to waste. I am appled out.

[kerryegg]

The other thing I do is store some in the greenhouse for winter for the birds. My varieties go soft when stored but the birds seem to love them through the winter when food can be scarce.