9 million eating apples on our tree; what can I make with them?

[Gatekeeper]

I have run out of ideas- they don't puree or make decent crumbles or pies as they aren't sharp enough

I have bunged them in smoothies and dried a few in slices but am now stuck. Don't have a juicer or press to make apple juice so needs to be cooking recipes

thanks

How about baked apples? Core them, fill the core with dried fruit and nuts, drizzle with honey and then bake. Serve with greek yoghurt/icecream.

Pork and apple casserole?

Bulk out a curry (I seem to remember my Mum putting apple in curry in the 80's - seems a bit weird now but I remember it tasting nice).

Mincemeat
grate into cakes
apple chutney

For many years I peeled , stewed and froze the fruit from two different apple trees in our garden. Days and days. It's amazing how little puree you get from each bucket of Apple's.

This year............ No more....life's too short.

Use them in cooking but add flavourings that enhance the small amount of flavour you have lemon plus a squeeze of juice maybe, or raisin & cinnamon.

We have a tree that left to its own devices produces lots of large and tasteless apples. We used to spend days picking them up & throwing them away. Now, we have it pruned every year so we don't get any apples, and buy, or get given, ones with flavour.

It seems every house in our town built in the 1920s had a tasteless apple tree planted in the garden - our last house had the same variety...

Could you donate some to your local foodbank?

Stew them with or without sultanas. Eat them with oats and milk like muesli. Delish!
Look up recipes for Apple bread or apple cake. Also delish!

Box on the road by your house with a sign 'free apples'?

I like stewed apple and blackberries with ginger.
Baked apple cores out with ginger cake pushed in is also good.

applesauce to go with roast pork, or apple cider vinegar?

Do you have any local cider makers about? There are 2 near us. We took 95kg of apples there earlier on this week, and walked away with 14 litres of cider as 'payment'!

I agree, life is just too short to stew 9 million apples. Or 9 apples even...

If they're eating apples they won't make good cider.

Food bank is a good idea, fresh produce is expensive and I'm sure they'd be really appreciated.

I have made apple butter (which is basically apple jam)
It is a great recipe, because you don't have to peel and core, you rough chop the whole apple and cook, then put through an ordinary sieve.
Then add sugar and boil til ready.
Very easy, tasty on toast but also works with cheese and crackers.

I also make apple turnovers. Peel, core and chop, add teaspoon of cinnamon, splash of orange juice and spoonful of brown sugar. Cook a bit until soft but still lumpy. Let it cool a bit.
Buy sheets of puff pastry, cut sheets onto squares, put apple in, milk round edges to seal, fold over so you have a triangle. Milk and sugar on top. Put in hot oven for 20 ish minutes.
Very easy and very easy to eat.

You don't need sharp apples for crumble, add spices - cloves or cinnamon or nutmeg. Or if (like me) you had kilos of blackcurrants 2 months ago and they are sitting in a bag in the freezer, mix blackcurrants and apple for crumble (25% blackcurrant)

Our foodbank won't take fresh stuff only long life.

oh the apple butter is full of cinnamon and nutmeg spices too.

Hopeful -They take any apples. Eaters or cooking. Pears as well.
If you're in Hampshire, ring Mr Whiteheads Cider near Selborne.

lots of ideas here thank you

regretfully no cider makers but have now promised a load of them to a local organisation who make & sell juices and cordials and use the profits to plant community orchards etc- foodbank won't take them

Apple turnovers sound great

Put some in a box in front of your house for the neighbours - I pick some up every time I go past this one house that is giving them away at the mo - makes my day! :)

Fruit leather. Make a puree with a little added cinammon and sugar (if necessary). Spread very thinly on a baking tray/sheet. Dry on a very low heat 90/70 fan for several hours. I usually leave mine overnight on a timer.

I sometimes mix other fruit such as peach or nectarine in to the puree as well.

I've done quite a few apple recipes recently for the exact same reason! Hopefully these will give you some ideas :)

Apple & Pear Turnovers - www.eatdrinkcook.co.uk/recipe-pear-apple-turnovers/
Spiced Apple Butter - www.eatdrinkcook.co.uk/recipe-spiced-apple-butter/
Apple & Blackberry Cheesecake - www.eatdrinkcook.co.uk/recipe-apple-blackberry-cheesecake/
Salted Caramel Apple Crumble - www.eatdrinkcook.co.uk/salted-caramel-apple-crumble/

*coletterbox" drool......

our neighbour came round earlier with a huge bag of apples for us

probably to pay us back for all the courgettes we lobbed at him last year !