Cooking apples - best recipes other than crumble

[Suddengeekgirl]

SIL has a massively laden apple tree so we took about a dozen big ones - a whole fruit bowl full!

Other than crumble what else can I do?

Apple cake is gorgeous especially with lots of cinnamon or mixed spice - I don't use any particular one recipe, I just google one. As its a 'cake' more than a 'pudding' its also more versatile for putting in lunchboxes or taking to a friends if you go for coffee.

My Gran used to make baked apples - really simple and lovely stuffed with dates and served with custard (just core a whole apple, no need to peel. Stuff with dates, brown sugar and bake - might have had a bit of liquid too, can't remember)

You could make some apple sauce and freeze it in portions. Stew some more in bigger chunks for apples pies etc and freeze that. Or oyu could risk freezing some raw chunks and using it from frozen - it usually works well. German apple cake is good - there's a few recipes of that type out there.

I am heartbroken as my Bramley had to be cut down.
I used to love making this tucks apple cake which seams really dry when all mixed but comes out a dream. I also used to prep a bag load of peeled and quartered apples for the freezer for small amounts of apple stew in the winter.
Will have to go scrumping!

I love Peasant Girl with a Veil. Pureed, sweetened apple, layered (2 or 3 layers max) with breadcrumbs fried in butter with brown sugar and whipped cream, topped with grated chocolate, eaten cold from the fridge.

Fried apple and onions is yummy with pork sausages - peel, core & slice apple & fry with onions til nicely caremelised.

Like ouryve I cook and freeze various combinations and textures of apples/sugar/booze then freeze them in portions for puddings and sauces later.

You can make apple jelly from quite a small quantity of apples, they are also night in pectin so you only really need to buy a muslin cloth, you don't need all sorts of kit.

Last year I made a 'straight' jelly (1kg of sugar to 1kg of fruit). It was ok, a bit meh. But I also made a version with a little less sugar, which was boiled with pricked chillies and then jarred with big sprigs of rosemary. It was delish.

And my big succes last year was apple pickle. I googled a recipe for lime pickle and basically followed it to the letter, except with apples instead of lime. It needed a good few months in the jar to mellow out, but omg, once it matured it was fantastic.

Apple crumble muffins, apple snow, apple sorbet, apple chutney, apple puffs, apple fool.

Cheesecake / strudel / muffins / Pie / cake / crumble / sauce / jelly / compote to put on pancakes / stir into porridge.

If you wrap each one in newspaper and put in a cardboard box somewhere cool they will keep most of the winter as long as not bruised. They may go a bit wrinkly after a few months though .

I don't know, but my solution has been to cook them down a bit and then freeze bagloads. We will have apple crumbles available from now until armageddon.

And and and - if you have £9.59 spare, this Lakeland peeler is the best way of spending it you could find. It has revolutionised my apple peeling life.

apple and swede go really well together as an accompaniment to haggis (or sausages, or liver and bacon, if you weren't brought up in Scotland)