[Magdalen] apples

[Jay Weigel]

Chutney would be good. Apple chutneys are excellent with meats. My friend
Polly is a master of all kinds of chutneys and usually brings along one or
mi=ore kinds for my freezer when we meet in Lexington. (She lives in
Dublin, VA.)

Another thought is pie filling, although if they're sour you'd have to
sweeten that up a lot. I used to do it thusly: make the pie filling as
usual and dump into a foil-lined pie pan. Cover with foil and toss in
freezer. When frozen solid, remove and wrap securely. Return to freezer.
When the hankering for a pie occurs, or a pie is needed for some occasion,
make a crust. Remove frozen fruit filling from freezer, unwrap, and drop
into crust. Dot with butter. Top pie as usual and cut slits, or or do
lattice or whatever crust you do. Bake as usual for pie, no extra time
needed. This can be done with any fresh fruit you have an oversupply of.
Trust me, it works! I used to do this all the time in my "earth mother"
years.

On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 10:02 AM, P. Dan Brittain <pdan.brittain at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 10:13 PM, Charles Wohlers <chadwohl at satucket.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Cider usually needs a mixture of varieties. One year we pressed straight
> > Macs, and it was pretty bad cider. Adding some wild apples improved it a
> > whole lot.
> >
>
> ​I also have a Jonathon and a Golden delicious, but they aren't bearing
> yet.​
>
>
>
> >
> > Taste one. Does it taste good? Or unripe sour?
>
>
> ​The later.​
>
>
>
> > If the latter, toss them in the compost pile, preferably far away from
> the
> > tree.
>
>
> ​That's what I had been doing, but I was wondering ​if I could make chutney
> or something like that from them,
>
>
> ​ Understand that apple trees normally drop a fair number of apples early,
> especially if there are a lot on the tree to begin with. However, in your
> climate, that usually would have happened last month. Up here, it was a
> week or two ago.
>
> That's what I had thought, and we had dropped some - but we had that really
> hot spell for a couple of weeks, may have done some stress,
>
> >
> > Me, I'll have to wait a few months for my Sweet 16's. Meanwhile, started
> > picking blueberries (wild & cultivated) and red raspberries today.
> >
>
> ​My blackberries are finished​, as is their jelly and jam. Didn't get as
> many of those this year. I suspect the apricot tree, which was supposed to
> be a dwarf, but isn't, shaded some of the canes too much.
>
> Tomatoes are doing really well, start canning some of those this week; and
> won't be long till salsa making time.
>
>
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