So many apples!

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We have 2 apple trees in our garden and this is our first year here. There are so many apples that we just don't know what to do with them all! Any ideas welcome! I can prob cook 1 pie a week and maybe we can eat a dozen a week between us but that still leaves an awful lot. We can't put them in the green wheelie bin. Have ordered a compost bin but again can't really put them all in there either. Any ideas for using up apples welcome.... I have one eating and I e cooking apple tree!

Window1 just taste a bit! If it's sweet, you'll know it's an eater.
You can cook with eaters too, but a) they're sweeter, and b) they don't cook down into that lovely appley mush. I like a mix of apples in my baking, but tbh that's probably really because I'm using up my own apples.

@TheSpottedZebra

Window1 just taste a bit! If it's sweet, you'll know it's an eater. You can cook with eaters too, but a) they're sweeter, and b) they don't cook down into that lovely appley mush. I like a mix of apples in my baking, but tbh that's probably really because I'm using up my own apples.

Thanks I'll have a taste of one and see. We have too many to be able to just eat normally so will look at some of these ideas. Can you follow the recipes with either type of apple?

You could call your local animal shelter/donkey/horse rescue and see if they will take some.

I recall driving past a house once with lots of apples in a basket at the front and a sign saying 'please help yourselves'
I thought it was really lovely!
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I read that cooking apples is a UK thing, most other countries make no distinction. I’m not sure how true this is, eg Portugal have a large russet apple which seems to be used cooked and is disappointingly mushy eaten raw.

window can you ask your neighbour wahat variety they are? Of course it’s possible they don’t know.

If they’re eaters you can still cook with them, just don’t add so much sugar as they’re sweet already. They won’t be so good as apple sauce with meat as they’re less acid, but a quick “instant chutney” of apple cooked till soft with a bit of cider vinegar is lovely with Lincolnshire and similar sausages.

@MereDintofPandiculation

window can you ask your neighbour wahat variety they are? Of course it’s possible they don’t know.

If they’re eaters you can still cook with them, just don’t add so much sugar as they’re sweet already. They won’t be so good as apple sauce with meat as they’re less acid, but a quick “instant chutney” of apple cooked till soft with a bit of cider vinegar is lovely with Lincolnshire and similar sausages.

Apple chutney sounds lovely.

I’ve got about sixteen apple trees plus about the same pear trees, we use as many as we can (using lots of the methods already mentioned) but still have mountains left. The only thing that made a difference was when both my DDs started working for a local animal rescue with lots of pigs (and other assorted apple munching animals) - no more waste (it’s also where the huge bags of acorns go too now, apparently the pigs love them)