Can I make a crumble with just eating apples?

[turquoise]

I've got a huge bag of eating apples that are just soggy and bland when you bite into them, it's such a waste to throw them but they're no good as eaters - I've only made crumbles and pies with bramleys though. Would these be too sweet or fluffy to cook? Any ideas for anything else I could do with them? TIA.

I don't think they really distinguish between cooking and eating apples over here like at home, do they Turquoise? I'm sure they would be fine. Maybe cut back on the sugar a bit, and up the cinnamon etc. if they're not very tasty.

Yes, just go easy on the sugar. They cook slightly quicker too.

there's a thing called apple snow - the apples need to be sieved so mushy ones would be fine (if dull!)

there's a thing called apple snow - the apples need to be sieved so mushy ones would be fine (if dull!)

Thanks. Think they are just going to be tasteless mush though! Sadly my family hate cinnamon - not a good dislike to have here!

oops!

You can make it twice, turquoise!

Oooh thanks JanH - perfect!

Apple pie with no cinnamon?

That's un-American!

I've made pies and crumbles with eating apples and they've turned out OK - I think I used less sugar.

What about roasting them with parboiled potatoes, squash, parsnips etc? Toss them in oil and herbs and roast in the oven for 35 minutes. Dh likes that with pork dishes.

I also chop them up and throw them in with pan-fried pork chops - brown the chops, throw in chopped leek, mushrooms and cored, quartered apple, fry for a couple of minutes then add stock, cover and simmer for 20 minutes.

Dh also likes apple chopped up in things like sausage or pork casserole - you can do a nice one with pork, prunes, onion and apples bunged in a casserole dish with some stock.

Thanks all. Pork chops and apple snow for tea then!

there won't be any texture to them. you could make apple sauce (freeze it for the next time you have roast pork) but if they are soggy and bland raw, they will be mushy and bland cooked.

mind you hot apple sauce on vanilla icecream is delicious, maybe that would disguise the blandness?

Except that, if she made apple sauce without cinnamon she would be thrown out of the country!

Apple Charlotte is good made with eating apples:

butter thin bread each sid and line a souffle or similar high sided dish completely,
peel, core and cook the apples (no sugar) then puree in blender,
pour pureed apple into the bread-lined dish and put more buttered bread as a lid over the top,
sprinkle with demerara sugar and cook in hot oven for approx. 30 mins
eat with creme fraiche

Thanks everyone. Pph was right (as I'd feared) they were tasteless pap. Will try the other recipes with some other variety though - sadly they all seem to be versions of red delicious .
Oh for a crunchy russet with a wedge of wensleydale!

Russets are in the shops now, turquoise, and they're gorgeous! You can keep the Wensleydale, though ... (ugh!)

Not my shops WWB
Americans like their apples (and cheese) BLAND, or else lost in a vat of cinnamon.

Turquoise, is it too late to go apple picking? (Something we can't do down here.) We used to go to a place in Far Hills and got some gorgeous apples. We did used to go before Halloween I think though - it might be too late in the year now.

I was wrong. The place we used to go to was in Oldwick.

Apples in New Jersey!

Thanks Kate, that's really thoughtful. We need some kind of expedition this weekend too, as dp is back in the UK. Some of them say they're year round, so even if the apples are dwindling off there'll be something to do, if the forecast rain isn't too heavy!