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Just stripped about 60lbs of crab apples off the tree in our garden, mainly to stop them rotting on the grass when they fall off. I tried one, they're pretty bitter but not entirely unpleasant so I'm wondering what they could be used for. Jam? Wine? Cider? Anyone have any recipes?
Jelly.
Chutney?
If you'd have let them fall and lie on the grass and then stored them together for a few weeks there's a chance you might have made a good cider but with random trees it's a lottery. Next year I'd keep 25kg or so of them and try making a cider.
I thought they were poisonous? (Or am I mixing them up with something else?)
Apple seeds are (a bit). As are many other fruit seeds (cyanide). But only if you get through the hard shell.
Feed them back to the crabs..
Or dilute on a 400-1 ratio with sugar..
crab apple and blackberry jelly ftw
The taste of a 70's childhood
Jelly.
Boom.
One taste and I am transported back to 1984 in Sutton Park, harvesting them with Gran on a sunny afternoon and then having them on every sandwich for the next three months until stocks were exhausted...
Quince isn't far off the same as well...
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crab apple and blackberry jelly ftwThe taste of a 70's childhood
Correct. My Mum was the best jam & jelly maker EVER!
(except for the time she did marmalade in a pressure cooker & the weight came off. Marmalade geyser/kitchen ceiling interface) Oh how we laughed. 😆
Boil them, mush them, add sugar, spread on a baking tray and cook at 60 degrees for a couple of hours, makes a leather like thin layer which can be rolled up and chopped into pieces. Very tasty, easy and minimal mess.
Google fruit leather, I did it a couple of years ago.