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27 Things You can Do with Apples
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Got apples? If you’ve got apples, you’ve got the basic ingredient for more than a dozen delicious foods. Apples are one of God’s best blessings to humanity because they’re a great combination of fiber, nutrients, and delicious!
Here are 27 ways to put apples to work, along with a lot of great recipe links!
- apple butter
- pies
- home-canned apple pie filling
- fruit leather
- apple sauce
- my Mom’s Apple Kuchen
- apple jelly
- fried apples
- apple pancakes
- dehydrated apple slices
- apple chutney
- baked apples
- cheesecake
- apple juice
- apple pectin
- plant apple trees
- apple cider vinegar
- apple crisp or cobbler
- apple turnovers
- apple cider
- apple strudel
- plain apple slices, canned
- caramel apple jam
- apple cake
- spiced apple bread
- apple fritters
- Indian Relish
If you need more recipes, check out this cookbook!
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Anita Chamblee
Here are a few of our favorite apple recipes. http://busyhandsbusyminds.blogspot.com/2011/11/co…
Kristina
Apple peel jelly- This uses the peels (and I always throw the cores in, too). It is fabulous, easy, and it uses all those peels and cores that you get when processing large batches of apples.
TheSurvivalMom
If you have a good recipe, post it!
Kristina
This is the recipe I use. I use everything left over from my apple pie, cores and peels.
Place apple peels (I use cores, too), lightly packed, into a 4.5 qt pot with 5 cups water. There should be about 3-4 inches of peels in the pot. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and boil for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat, put the lid on the pot and allow to stand overnight.
Strain the liquid into a measuring cup, and make certain you have 5 cups. Return to the pot. Gradually dissolve 1 box of pectin into the liquid and bring to a full rolling boil, over high heat. Add 7 cups of sugar (all at once), stirring to dissolve. Return to boiling, and boil hard for 1 minute.
Remove from heat, skim foam, and pour into hot ½ pint jelly jars. Process ina hot water bath for 10 minutes.
You can reduce the amount of sugar, and also easily double and triple this recipe if you have a large enough pot.
katzien
A bit off topic here. I was checking out your lists and looking at food storage, and I wonder…can anything be done about the way we download files?? It's horrible…mediafire opens 3 or 4 windows, I have to click a link to download, after I clicked the link from your list, then a new window opens, click again…a new window, etc. I think I got a confirmation that the download completed, but then couldn't find where it downloaded my list to….grrr. Why not just a simple pdf? Or a link ot a web document? There must be an easier way. thanks.
TheSurvivalMom
Kat, I HATE Mediafire for just the reasons you mention. Earlier this week I was checking into GoDaddy\’s document hosting option and will try to make an improvement by the end of the year.
Canadianmom
Behind our home is an abandoned apple orchard. More than 200 trees, many different varieties, many different harvest times. Very convenient maybe for some kinds of disaster. I harvest the apples nearest our property to help discourage bears from coming too close. Some apples go to our 3 horses. I will give you my grandmothers simple recipe for apple squares. I love it because it uses a lot of apples. I double the recipe and usually freeze squares and put the frozen squares in the kids lunch boxes. By lunch time, they are unfrozen. Best of all, this is super fast to prepare.
1 c flour
1/2 c sugar
Pinch of salt
1/2 c butter
Mix, sprinkle 1/2 in bottom of 9 x 9 bake pan. Cover with 4 chopped apples. Sprinkle with a dash of cinnamon and
sugar.
Sprinkle with rest of the above flour mix. Bake 400F for 1 hour or until rosy in color. Enjoy!
TheSurvivalMom
Nice!! You're a lucky lady!
Janet
mmmm .. we’re SO jealous Canadianmom! We’re heading over to Willcox (in SE Arizona) this weekend to get a few boxes of fresh picked mountain apples.
Thanks for all the tips and links Lisa..!
Jan
This isn't really a recipe, but an easy snack. My kids love apple slices and peanut butter. I zap the peanut butter in the microwave for about 30 seconds. Just so its a little warm, its like a dip at that point. The I add different things to spice it up. My kids like honey, coconut, mini choco chips, jelly, etc. They like when I add a little bit of chili pepper and honey to the peanut butter. They will eat the chili pepper/honey pb on apples, carrots, celery, etc.
RightWingMom
Many of us have purchased dehydrated apple chips. (Mine are from LDS.) A small bowl of those with peanut butter as a dip would make an excellent no cook and healthy snack….or mini meal if needed. Add a little honey, cinnamon, raisins, etc. to increase the nutritional value.
Jan
I hadn't thought about using dehydrated apple slices. We make those year and they never last long. Thanks!!
alicia
Dried apple slices keep really well just in a ziplock bag in our pantry. Plus you can keep alot more apples in a smaller amout of space when they're dried. We sprinkle cinnamon on ours – yum!