| Grex > Kitchen > #111: Apples |
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Oct 12 14:43 UTC 2013 |
So it's apple season again. My favorite apple these past few years have been the Honeycrisp apple... It's been a couple years since I've made the applesauce that Mary posted early in this item but hope to at some point after I get more settled after my move last week. My crockpot is fairly small which is just as well since my fridge/freezer is on the smaller side, too. So what kinds of things have people been doing these past 2-3 years or plan on doing this fall?
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Oct 13 22:39 UTC 2013 |
I have been picking up the green/yellow crunchy apples that fall off our neighbor's tree and drying them. They are tart enough to make excellent dried apples once you cut out the bruised and buggy spots. Doing the same with our Seckel pears, and a few plums and peaches. The very ripe pears make pear sauce, the very green ones cooked pears, and I freeze both. We will have pear candy for a couple of years from this year's bumper crop.