What to do with all these apples?

Question

went apple picking yesterday. Have about 30lbs don't know what to do with them all HELP!!

Answer 1

Applejuice, applesauce, apple pie, toffee apples, or just give them to your friends and family.

Answer 2

Make apple butter, baked apples, apple pies, apple cakes. The cakes and pies can be frozen for a few months. Just be sure to seal them really well before freezing. Go to websites such as foodnetwork.com, and kraftfoods.com. You could invite some friends over to bake, and cook them. Have them bring recipes, too. Let them take some home, or enjoy them with coffee and/hot chocolate.

Answer 3

You've got some great advice from so many people. I really like the detailed one from: banec1

The joy of cooking and baking also goes well with the joy of giving, so if you decide to venture out and make some apple recipes...share the final results with your friends and family. Yummy!!!

In fact, I got a huge bag of apples today and I will be making my friend some apple crisp. She is so excited, since she doesn't cook.

Answer 4

Pie and crumble and sauce, obviously.

If you want to preserve some, make apple butter --
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/230706

I make a soup with white potatoes, sweet potatoes, and apples that is very tasty (just follow a recipe for potato soup and replace some of the potatoes with apples and yams).

Have you tried slicing apples, potatoes, and onions and frying them up like home fries? A very tasty breakfast.

Sliced apples are also good steamed with carrots.

Bon appetit!

Answer 5

I'll take some!!! I've been dreaming of Jewish Apple Cake, also thought a Sour Cream Apple Pie sounded good...put some dried cranberries in it too...
Applesauce is very easy to make in a crock pot, also.

Answer 6

make apple juice and save them in the fridge.

make apple pie

make fruit salad and share with friends

send them to China - i love apples.

Answer 7

Make apple pie, applesauce, apple crisp, dehydrated apples, apple cobler, cinnamon apple muffins, caramel apples, apple spice cake, apple cider, make fruit baskets for some close people or if you have a new neighbor to welcome them to the neighborhood

Answer 8

Get creative. dig out some old apple-related recipies and put those apples to good use.

Answer 9

Hi there,

You could make apple sauce, pie and apple cider. Here are some recipes. Hope this helps you.

Cheers,


Cocktails Recipes. Mixed Drinks
Apple Sauce Recipe

Ingredients
1 oz Spiced Rum
3 oz Apple Sauce
4 oz Sweet and Sour Mix
1/4 oz Triple Sec
12 oz Crushed Ice

Mixing Instruction
Pour all ingredients into a blender, and blend until slushy. Pour into a tall glass; highball, hurricane, or collins, and serve.

BASIC APPLE PIE RECIPE
8 servings

This is my mom's recipe for apple pie (I've even successfully made it a few times!) You can make the crust or you can use a premade one.

CRUST (recipe makes one double crust):
2 1/2 cups white flour
2 tbsp. sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 cup cold butter, broken into small pieces
5 tbsp. cold vegetable shortening
8 tbsp. ice water

Measure the flour, sugar and salt togetherl. Stir to combine.
Add the chilled butter pieces and shortening to the bowl. Cut them in with a pastry cutter or knife. Don't over mix them.
Add the ice water. Mix until the dough holds together (add a bit more water, if necessary).
Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface, knead it together, then divide in half.
Flatten each half into a disk, wrap in saran wrap and chill for at least half an hour.
Roll out one of the disks on a lightly floured surface until you have a circle that's about 12 inches in diameter.
Put the circle in a 9" pie plate, trimming any extra dough from the edges with a sharp knife (parents only). Return it to the refrigerator until you are ready to make the pie.
Add filling (see below)
Roll out the second ball of dough and cover top. Use a fork or your fingers to pinch the edges together. cut a couple slits in the top.

FILLING
1/3 to 2/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Pinch of salt
8 medium sized apples (a medium apple = about 1 cup)
2 tablespoons margarine

Heat oven to 425 degrees.
Peel, core and slice the apples. Try to keep the size of the slices even.
Mix sugar, flour, nutmeg, cinnamon, and salt in large bowl.
Stir in apples.
Pour into pastry-lined pie plate.
Dot with margarine.
Cover with top crust and seal the edges. Cut slits in the top.
OPTIONAL: Cover edge with 3-inch strip of aluminum foil to prevent too much browning. Remove foil during last 15 minutes of baking.

Bake 40 to 50 minutes or until crust is brown and juice begins to bubble through slits in crust.

APPLE CIDER
Makes 1 Gallon -- for larger quantities, multiply everything except the yeast, which is sufficient up to 5 gallons.

14-16 lbs Apples (or 1 gallon of juice)
1/2 cup Dextrose
1/2 tsp Pectic Enzyme
1/2 tsp Andovin Super Nutrient
1 Campden Tablet (crushed)
1 pkg Lalvin EC-1118 Wine Yeast

Cut apples into smaller pieces, which will help in juice extraction. Crush, press, and add juice to primary fermenter with all ingredients except wine yeast. Cover primary.

Pressing: if a fruit press is not available, add fruit to a nylon straining bag. Strain out juice, and when finished, tie the bag up & add it to the primary fermenter as well.

After 24 hours, strain the juice from the pulp, & discard straining bag. Add yeast.

Rack to secondary carboy after SG drops below 1.010. Rack again when fermentation is complete (SG below 0.999), or in 3 weeks -- whichever is later.

Fining & Stablilizing: If you are NOT going to sparkle your cider, you should add 1/2 tsp of Potassium Sorbate per gallon to stabilize the yeast. After this is done, you'll be able to sweeten your cider to your liking. A clarifier may also be added.

Racking: Any further racking should be done with the addition of 1 (crushed) Campden tablet per gallon.

Sparkling Cider: When ready to bottle, add 1/4 cup dissolved table sugar PER GALLON to an empty pail. Syphon the cider into the pail, give a quick stir, and bottle into beer bottles (or pop bottles, or Champagne bottles), and cap accordingly.

Allow to sit 4 weeks before sampling. Age in a cool, dark place

Answer 10

you may try making some home made apple jam, by referring to the cookery sites for jams, and also distribute some to your friends and neighbours, they will be happy to receive fresh apples.