[Ag-eq] Apples

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Tracy:

Your apples sound wonderful; I love the sweet tart ones.  It's hard to get a
really good apple here in Arizona.

Could you freeze the cooked appple side dish that you're making?

If you know how to can, you could can apple sauce and the like.  One of my aunts
makes and cans wonderful apple butter.  My Mom makes lots and lots of dried
apples.  She always sends me some and they are yummy!

I don't have any good ideas for getting the apples off the tree.  Could you
shake it, or some of the limbs?

  Good luck.

Nella




Quoting Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>:

> I have a bumper crop of apples this year.  They're not as big as
> store-bought, but they have a wonderful sweet-tart crispness that can't be
> beat.  The fruit drawer on my fridge is full of apples, and the harvest is
> just starting.
> I just ordered a food mill from Amazon.  I'm hoping that it will make apple
> cooking easier.  Because the apples are small to medium-sized, and harder
> than store-bought, I don't think an ordinary apple-corer would do a good job
> on them.  Right now, if I want to cook some, I slice them and pare out the
> core, which takes a bit of time, since I need to fix several apples.  Then I
> saute them in a little butter for a minute, add a little water, cover and
> cook them for about 15 minutes, and get a delicious side-dish.  When my mill
> comes, I'm hoping to branch out into actual applesauce.
> I've also gotten a lot of apple dessert recipes, but there's a limit to how
> much dessert we can eat without getting fat, which is too bad, because I
> enjoy baking.
> Does anyone have any hints about apple storage or apple cooking prep?
> Also, our method so far for harvest is to pick up what falls on the ground,
> keep the good ones, and chuck the damaged ones in the compost.  I've put
> nets on a few of the low-hanging fruits too keep them from falling, but
> there's too much to net them all. My neighbor talks about going up a ladder
> and picking apples off the tree, but I'm not keen on climbing a ladder every
> day to see if I find any ripe apples at the top. Any ideas about apple
> harvesting, better than picking up windfalls?
> Tracy
>
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