Millions and millions of apples

[Lifeinthepit]

What do I do?? Cooking apples mostly. The wind last night has brought a lot down and so I'm not sure how well they will store. This year's crop is bumper too.

Usually I do crumbles until it's coming out of everyone's ears. Or just stew them for breakfast but I don't think it's going to cut it this time. I like cooking so would love any recipe ideas!

Dry them and make apple rings https://www.theorchardproject.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Making_dried-apple_rings_schools_ErnestCook.pdf

Chutney, apple pie, spiced apple cake, tarte tatin, apple sauce to go with pork and crackling; plum and apple jam; baked apples stuffed with dates, almonds, raisins and a sugar butter mix that turns to toffee; apple turnovers in puff pastry.

We planted a pear tree about 15 years ago but no fruit. I apprecaite it's pears for heirs, but 15 years seem a long time! I wonder if I need another tree?

@TranquilityofSolitude I'm making this chutney. I've had to use a few ingredient substitutions eg ancho chillies rather than paprika so fingers crossed! I think as suggested also an apple cake and will try drying some apple rings. Plenty to be getting on with.Thank you everyone!

Proper apple butter uses up loads of apples & is easy in a slow cooker also delicious.
or my great aunt would have stored them in sand - she only stopped doing this in her 90s when she found the climb to the attic to turn/retrieve them too tricky!

Apple butter is a good shout, and Yotam has a fantastic apple and olive oil cake recipe. We have a similar problem with pears, so many this year.

www.allrecipes.com/recipe/24352/easy-apple-cinnamon-muffins/

https://www.ricardocuisine.com/en/recipes/3655-apple-crisp

This is great. I do not add sugar to the apples, the topping is sweet enough

It sounds like your pear tree needs some fertiliser with potash. Give that a try for next year!

OP you are welcome to send me as many apple crumbles as you like!

Chutney? Dorset Apple cake. If I was your friend I’d happily take a slice 😁

Jealous as our tree fell down and had to be felled last year. 😞

When you have cooked up every recipe you can think of, what I used to do with my excess is stew them and freeze it in those small plastic containers you can get. Then every time I wanted apple sauce for roast pork, or stewed apple for breakfast, or for puddings, I just had to get one small container out of the freezer. It does rely on you having enough freezer space though.

Another lovely apple chutney recipe , the pink peppercorns make it really tasty https://www.talesfromthekitchenshed.com/2022/06/sweet-and-spicy-apple-chutney/

I've also made this apple & pear chutney this year as our pear tree was abundant (after a barren year last year ) https://lostinfood.co.uk/spiced-pear-apple-chutney/

after that I will be filling freezer bags with apple sauce, apple slices for pies and crumbles and breakfast, and making crumbles and cakes for my in-laws https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/caramel-apple-loaf-cake, https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/magazines/dorset/22609722.recipe-make-dorset-apple-cake/

@Lifeinthepiti think you do. Try Frank Matthews’s, which is nationally recognised as good. https://www.frankpmatthews.com/catalogue/type/fruit-trees/

This apple pudding is great. It’s easy to make and you get a fabulous fudgy sauce at the bottom of the dish.

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/sticky-toffee-apple-pudding

Damn, if I had pecans I would make that NOW.

Tarte tatin is lovely, uses a lot of splles because you cook them in sugar/butter first which means they cook down a lot.

I’d just make it anyway! It doesn’t need the pecans to make it delicious 😂

Reading with interest as I'm just about to pick my Red Love apples, they are a gorgeous reddy pink so make really pretty crumbles etc. But they are small, so peeling and coring is a bit of a slog. I've picked all my Katy apples and cooked them to have with yoghurt and crumbles. We also got a new apple tree growing out of our Red Love tree which had yellow apples.
There's a good cake recipe I got from ye olden day Mumsnet recipe section, Devonshire Apple cake - basically a sponge mixture with apples and chunks of marzipan in the middle.

Cool place shelf or box and none touching. They'll keep.

A few more ideas....
Sausage and apple casserole
Pork chops with apple and onions in a mustard sauce
Warm salad of black pudding and caramelised apples on bitter leaves
Add grated or finely chopped apple to sausagemeat for stuffings or sausage rolls
Make mincemeat with plenty of chopped apple
Dutch apple cake
Apple fritters (try apple fritters with a gammon ham steak)

Ooh apple flapjacks are amazing

I'm also drowning in apples (it's a mast year I think) and so far I have made:

Invisible French apple cake (https://www.seriouseats.com/gateau-invisible) - this uses a full 1.1kg of apples, any kind (the miso is optional, I've made it with and without and it's nice both ways)

Apple sharlotka (https://smittenkitchen.com/2012/01/apple-sharlotka/) - calls for 6 large apples but I assume that's if they're Bramley sized. I made it with 12 smaller Discovery apples from the garden. Has eggs, but is dairy-free.

In fact Smitten Kitchen has a huge apple recipe collection and her recipes haven't failed me yet: https://smittenkitchen.com/recipes/fruit/apple/

Apple olive oil cake from Anna del Conte (https://nourish-me.typepad.com/nourish_me/2008/08/thirty-seven.html) - this one keeps forever in a cake tin, it just gets better and better over the week - a real cut and come again tea cake

Apple caraway seed cake from Rachel Roddy (https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/feb/20/apple-caraway-loaf-cake-recipe-rachel-roddy-irina-georgescu) - another almost savoury tea cake, also very nice with a glass of marsala. Only uses 200g apples though

I've peeled, sliced/chunked and frozen two massive bags of apple pieces too that I can just pull out to make a pie or a crumble in future.

Invisible apple cake I just made this afternoon!

I've just made some apple turnovers using up a roll of pastry from the freezer.