Eating Apples for cooking?

[Emmgee]

I have been given a load of eating apples. Can I use them for apple pies and apple sauce?

Yes, although the results wont be exactly the same as they don't spontaneously turn to fluff. I've made apple sauce from eaters, by cooking well and mashing.

Some recipes are better done with eaters, I think - eg tarte tatin (never made one myself!) where you want the apple to stay in slices.

I think for a pie I'd precook to make sure it wasn't too lumpy.

brilliant thank you - got past my first post and thread!

tarte tatin - lovely! apple charlotte - lovely!
all with eaters and both dead easy if you use frozen pastry.

Also it depends on the flavour of the eating apple. If it is quite a sharp variety, then you will get a better taste I think. If it was already a very mild, delicate flavour then it may be a bit tasteless.

I put some lemon rind & juice in with the applesauce to tart it up a bit (apt use of 'tart' there )

I often get a load of unidentified pples from my mother, often eaters with grubs in. I stew those (after removing grubs, of course)and they are delicious. They tend to stay as slices, in the main, but that is not a problem.