[barley]

Hello cooks

well besides the usual apple pies / crumbles etc. any more good suggestions on what to do with a huge tree full of apples ?

I also use them for sweetening red cabbage and chutneys but would love some more ideas please 

[Beetroot Queen]

What about freezing some apple sauce in plastic bowls, i am doing this fr florence in portions

Apple chutney for me and lots of it, plus crumble 

[ghost61]

Fresh mint jelly, or cinnamon and apple jelly? Both are yummy.

[Beetroot Queen]

I did a nice apple and raspBerry jelly and thats really nice

[Annen]

I'm planning to slice and dry mine when they start coming off the tree.

[mumofstig]

Chilli apple jelly
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chilliapplejelly_7293

or there are plenty of recipes on line using home grown chillis, rather than just the seeds - these make a beautiful pink jelly 

[grendel]

we have the same problem, we have a fruit dryer and one of the apple corer/ peeler/slicer machines from lakeland, - its a matter of a few minutes work to peel and core an apple, one cut with a nife and you have apple rings, load into dryer and 6 hours later you have a bowl of dried apple rings, great for taking to work to snack on.
others get peeled, cored and sliced, then vacuum bagged and into the freezer. the peeler/corer makes preparing apples for pies and sauce a breeze too, all the prep on the apple in just a few seconds.
Grendel

[Mrs Bee]

try this one, it is gorgeous. You get a sponge topping on apples which are covered in a fudge sauce. Totally addictive.


85g melted butter
140g SR flour
100g caster sugar
1 tab baking powder
200ml milk
1 beaten egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
12oz peeled sliced apples

topping
140g  soft dark brown sugar
50g roughly chopped nuts of your choice, walnuts, pecan, hazelnuts.

Grease 2 litre ovenproof dish
Mix dry ingredients together, apples in the dish.
Mix wet ingredients into the dry and top the apples with the mix.

Pour 250 ml boiling water on to the brown sugar and mix until smooth. Pour over the other ingredients in the dish.
top with nuts and bake 180C 160 f GAS 4 for about 40 mins.
Serve with cream, icecream or custard.

[Trillium]

Like grendel, we have a dehydrator and do apples. They're great to eat as is, or cook in a slow cooker for any sort of pudding. Most of my apples are peeled, sliced and frozen for winter use.

I do applesauce, either for dessert as is or side dish for pork.

You can make lovely apple butter, another name for thick apple jam sweetened with apple juice rather than sugar. Google some recipes.

From the peeling scraps, you can make fruit scrap vinegar to use in salads and such. RECIPE

I always add lots of apple chunks to rice pudding before I cook it.

[chrissie B]

I use mine in apple and orange marmalade , its a little cloudy but very nice and it spreads those expencive saville oranges . the recipie is an old one from a book about apples
chrissie b

[Coldfeet]

I make this chutney every year.   Delicious, and uses lots of apple. 
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2646/classic-apple-chutney