My apple trees this year are off the charts! What’s your favourite way to preserve apples?

by cowskeeper

21 Comments

  1. Make them into cider, or apple sauce and/or apple butter. And maybe a little bit into apple pie filling.

  2. darktideDay1

    Cider! Both sweet and hard. And then make some of the hard into brandy.

  3. Otis2341

    Make a bunch of pies and freeze them. Nothing like apple pie all year round.

  4. Lunatika_2022

    Core, peel and quarter them, then can them in honey/water syrup. You can use these for pies, tarts, or mash them, syrup and all for ‘instant’ applesauce in the future.

  5. Torpordoor

    I like to peel and slice gallons worth, they get dipped in a lemon water bath drained and frozen on cookie sheets then put in freezer bags. Then you’ll look like a goddamn apple pie or crisp wizard when you can just whip out a bag a perfectly prepared slices. I do the same process for gallons of small diced apples with the skin on for oatmeal. Well worth the effort.

  6. Apple sauce, apple butter, apple pie filling.

  7. Proud-Bicycle9671

    I just did apple pie filling today! Canned and ready for the holidays

  8. NoFee474

    Well done 👍 alcohol is a great cleaning product and fuel , cider vinegar , brandy , pie , crumble , man the list keeps on going lol

  9. microflorae

    Crockpot apple butter isn’t the solution for ALL your apples but is a nice one because it requires minimal processing and minimal fussing over as it cooks. I think you can even leave the skin on? Just cut the core out while cutting the apple into chunks.

  10. abnormal_human

    I peel slice season stew and can or freeze. Then I eat a couple big spoonfuls with my morning yogurt all winter long.

  11. ihccollector

    If I find myself some apples, they are used primarily for fresh eating. Whatever isn’t eaten fresh gets ground, pressed, and fermented into hard cider.

  12. Are you in a drought zone right now? I noticed that the apple trees do fantastic in drought years but the next years they’re lower production to recover.

  13. We’ve done it all: applesauce, soft cider, hard cider, dehydrated slices, pie filling both canned and frozen, and apple cider vinegar. I suppose my favorite is canned pie filling.

    Our apple tree looks like that, too — heavy branches touching the ground.

  14. Baked_Jake94

    What do you use to keep pest away from the apples?

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