Apples (2 Viewers)

[dowel]

There are many apples in mmy parents garden, bramley...but also two desert apples. one is called beauty's bath(?), and is amazing, even beats the gorgeous apples you can get at food markets.


Baked them, with cinnamon/sugar/pecans and sultanas in the core.
Stewed them with some maple syrup instead, BUT, make some caramel, with butter+sugar and cook them in that, tis the best...yum! On was on my way to making Tarte Tatin, but gave up, caramel apples do the job!

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

apples are great. i made two apple cakes last week, also i bought two braeburn there a few minutes ago to help me through the day

 

[dowel]

forgot apple cake, and CRUMBLE...although, it's best with rhubarb

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

i love apple warm crumble with cream or icecream and coffee. i've never managed to bake an edible rhubarb crumble. maybe it wasnt ripe yet or something.

 

[Squiggle]

Beauty of Bath are my favourite apples in the whole world - but I love just eating them picked freshly off the tree. They don't keep well so you either have to eat them or process them. My parents juice them and freeze the juice... best apple juice ever.

But, if you're looking for other things to do with the apples, Bramleys make amazing apple chutney.
If you have a freezer you can freeze batches of stewed apple which is great for making quick apple pies, crumbles etc later in the year.

 

[dowel]

Chutney, savage!
Beauty of Bath, it's hard to describe how gorgeous these apples are, it's true, will make some juice today!
Gonna go up the step ladder with my rake + bucket, cause it's a windy one, don't want any more smash-down atrocities on the path.
Ta Squiggle

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Bramleys make amazing apple chutney.

how would you go about this?

 

[Squiggle]

how would you go about this?

Chutney is very easy to make, but I can't remember the recipe I normally use off the top of my head, I'll post it up here this evening if I remember. Got some lovely Bramleys from my folks yesterday so I might make some myself.

 

[magicbastarder]

grabbed about five kilos of apples from a friend's tree at the weekend. now i just have to figure out what to do with them.

if you're thinking of buying a few apple trees, have a look here:
http://www.irishseedsavers.ie/

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

the neighbours have an apple tree that overhangs our garden - i must rob a few

 

[dowel]

They're yours! get a rake!

 

[Scientician 0.8]

My sister's back garden has an apple tree, think I'll go a-picking. Dunno what brand o' apple they are. maybe I'll take a pikchure and ask one of you more appleknowledgable folks.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

i just went out there to pick a few apples and take pics for identification but there isnt a single apple on the tree. heres a picture of the apple cake i made the other day instead. i took a picture of it. it was nice, but a bit on the soggy side

 

[Scientician 0.8]

How do you like dem apples? ---> what type are these and what could they be used for?

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

 

[Squiggle]

Apple Chutney

Ingredients
1 Lb Onions grated or finely chopped
1/2 pint Vinegar
2 Lb peeled, cored and chopped apples
2-4 oz dried fruit (optional)
teaspoon pickling spice (tied in a muslin bag)
teaspoon salt (or less)
teaspoon ground ginger
12 oz sugar

Put onions in a saucepan with 1/8 pint of the vinegar and simmer until almost soft. Add the apples, dried fruit, pickling spice, salt, ground ginger and enough vinegar to prevent burning and simmer until the fruit is soft. Add the remainder of the vinegar and the sugar and stir well. Boil rapidly until thick, remove spice sachet and pour into hot jars.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

this sounds nice and easy but what kind of spice is pickling spice? and how much is a muslin bag and where would i get one?

 

[Squiggle]

this sounds nice and easy but what kind of spice is pickling spice? and how much is a muslin bag and where would i get one?

Pickling spice is a mixture of whole spices... you should be able to get it in a good market type store, I'm guessing fallon and byrne will have some. I'm going looking for some myself today so I'll let you know.

As to the muslin bag... well, that's what the recipe says, but a square of any kind of clean, fine, white (very important) cloth would be fine - just put the spices in it and knot it securely. Don't use any kind of coloured string to tie it closed though

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Pickling spice is a mixture of whole spices... you should be able to get it in a good market type store, I'm guessing fallon and byrne will have some. I'm going looking for some myself today so I'll let you know.

As to the muslin bag... well, that's what the recipe says, but a square of any kind of clean, fine, white (very important) cloth would be fine - just put the spices in it and knot it securely. Don't use any kind of coloured string to tie it closed though

why not?

 

[Squiggle]

why not?

It might turn the chutney strange colours.

There are pickling spice recipes on the web so if the worst comes to the worst and I can't find some pre mixed then I guess I can make up the mixture myself.

Anyway, that chutney is amazing. You need to make sure that the jars are warm when you put the chutney in (putting them in the oven on a fairly low setting for an hour or so is the easiest way - at home it was bottom oven of the Aga). It keeps very well as long as the jars are airtight and once opened keeps equally well in the fridge.