Just walked down the street to pick more apples from a tree in the yard
of an empty house about to go into foreclosure. Sad. After ~20 years
with two really nice families who raised their children and moved on,
the past two or three inhabitants have been really shady and have lasted
in the house less than a year apiece.

I made applesauce last week,end with a basket of the apples. We think
they may be golden delicious but they are unpruned, unsprayed, and many
are wormy but the flavor is worth the prep required. There is also a
thick layer of rotting drops on the ground that would probably make
great compost

Last night we had dinner at Daughter's house and I took an apple crisp,
lots of sliced apples in the bottom of a glass baking dish, topped with
a mixture of oats, brown sugar, butter, a little flour and salt, baked
until the apples were tender and served warm with vanilla ice cream.
Heavenly and healthy, too--think of all that oatmeal! (Hah!)

gloria p

Gloria P wrote:
>
>
> Just walked down the street to pick more apples from a tree in the yard
> of an empty house about to go into foreclosure. Sad. After ~20 years
> with two really nice families who raised their children and moved on,
> the past two or three inhabitants have been really shady and have lasted
> in the house less than a year apiece.
>
> I made applesauce last week,end with a basket of the apples. We think
> they may be golden delicious but they are unpruned, unsprayed, and many
> are wormy but the flavor is worth the prep required. There is also a
> thick layer of rotting drops on the ground that would probably make
> great compost
>
> Last night we had dinner at Daughter's house and I took an apple crisp,
> lots of sliced apples in the bottom of a glass baking dish, topped with
> a mixture of oats, brown sugar, butter, a little flour and salt, baked
> until the apples were tender and served warm with vanilla ice cream.
> Heavenly and healthy, too--think of all that oatmeal! (Hah!)
>
> gloria p



I picked a bucket of crabapples from the only Dolgo tree I know of in
town last month. I made a bunch of jelly (some of my best ever) and I
have a quart of leftover juice and about 5 or 6 pounds of leftover
crabapples in the freezer that I'm going to use to flavor some mead. I
might get that started this weekend; it's getting close to the top of my
todo list.

There are crabapple trees planted all over town. Hundreds of them;
maybe even a thousand. And almost all of them are varieties with hard
little apples not much bigger than a pea. The stay on the trees all
winter and never fall and even the birds won't eat them. (no they are
not Bradford pear) I still haven't figured out why people plant apple
trees and then go out of their way to get varieties that aren't even
good for feeding the wildlife.

Bob

zxcvbob wrote:
>
> There are crabapple trees planted all over town. Hundreds of them;
> maybe even a thousand. And almost all of them are varieties with hard
> little apples not much bigger than a pea. The stay on the trees all
> winter and never fall and even the birds won't eat them. (no they are
> not Bradford pear) I still haven't figured out why people plant apple
> trees and then go out of their way to get varieties that aren't even
> good for feeding the wildlife.

Same reason the cherry trees on the Capitol mall don't
bear fruit. They were selected to be ornamental, in which
case you don't want a bunch of rotten fruit on the ground.
Or bird messes.

On Oct 3, 4:45*pm, Gloria P > wrote:
> Just walked down the street to pick more apples from a tree in the yard
> of an empty house about to go into foreclosure. *Sad. *After ~20 years
> with two really nice families who raised their children and moved on,
> the past two or three inhabitants have been really shady and have lasted
> in the house less than a year apiece.
>
> I made applesauce last week,end with a basket of the apples. *We think
> they may be golden delicious but they are unpruned, unsprayed, and many
> are wormy but the flavor is worth the prep required. *There is also a
> thick layer of rotting drops on the ground that would probably make
> great compost
>
> Last night we had dinner at Daughter's house and I took an apple crisp,
> lots of sliced apples in the bottom of a glass baking dish, topped with
> a mixture of oats, brown sugar, butter, a little flour and salt, baked
> until the apples were tender and served warm with vanilla ice cream.
> Heavenly and healthy, too--think of all that oatmeal! *(Hah!)
>
> gloria p

Just passed one of my favourite 'gleaning' apple trees this afternoon:
Not an apple left on the tree. Autumn has arrived.

John Kane, Kingston ON Canada

Gloria P wrote:
>
>
> Just walked down the street to pick more apples from a tree in the yard
> of an empty house about to go into foreclosure. Sad. After ~20 years
> with two really nice families who raised their children and moved on,
> the past two or three inhabitants have been really shady and have lasted
> in the house less than a year apiece.
>
> I made applesauce last week,end with a basket of the apples. We think
> they may be golden delicious but they are unpruned, unsprayed, and many
> are wormy but the flavor is worth the prep required. There is also a
> thick layer of rotting drops on the ground that would probably make
> great compost
>
> Last night we had dinner at Daughter's house and I took an apple crisp,
> lots of sliced apples in the bottom of a glass baking dish, topped with
> a mixture of oats, brown sugar, butter, a little flour and salt, baked
> until the apples were tender and served warm with vanilla ice cream.
> Heavenly and healthy, too--think of all that oatmeal! (Hah!)
>
> gloria p


I've been eating sour apples all week for lunch. I bought a half
bushel of Harelson seconds and culls last weekend for $8 at the local
orchard. Tonight I brought the still-almost-full bag in the house and
decided to cook something with them. I found this recipe posted here
last year by "Martha", all I did was reformat it. It uses twice as many
apples as my usual apple cake recipes. I made a 8x8" for supper
tonight. Yes, we had cake for supper :P The batter tasted too salty
when raw, but the cake is just right.


Knobby Apple Cake
(recipe from Farm Journal)

1 cup sugar
3 Tbsp butter, soft [I used 4 Tbsp]
1 egg
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 c flour
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg [I substituted ginger]
3 cups chopped apples [I used Haralson]
1/4 cup chopped walnuts or pecans

Cream together the sugar and butter; add egg, and beat well. Sift
together the dry ingredients, add to the wet and blend until well mixed.
The batter will look like stiff cookie dough. Stir in the apples and
nuts, and spread batter in well-greased 8x8" pan and bake at 350° until
done, about 40 minutes. Serve warm.