Crabapple Delight
tammy July 21st, 2008
I made the yummiest apple crisp for dessert last night, with crabapples. These little beauties taste like a cross between cherries and apples. So delicious! I got them from a tree in my mother-in-law’s yard. She didn’t know what they were and had been telling the kids not to eat them because they were poisonous! Somehow I had never seen this tree in her yard before, but I’m glad I finally discovered it.
(sorry the pics are a bit fuzzy… don’t know what is wrong with my camera)
First take out the seeds. The crabapples are small, so this part is quite tedious. The quickest way I found was to just cut the flesh from all around the sides. No way I was peeling them, though!
Then coat your baking dish with butter and drop in the cored crabapples.
Make a crumb topping from brown sugar, butter and flour. I didn’t have any regular wheat flour, so I ground some flax into flour instead. Sprinkle the mixture all over the top. Bake until lightly browned. Yum!
I spent the morning with my mother-in-law attempting to also make jelly from the recipe I found here: http://earthnotes.tripod.com/crabapple.htm, but alas it did not jell as it was supposed to. I now have liquid “jelly” — anyone know what I could do with this sweet, tasty liquid?
P.S. the chickens really loved the cores!
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Yummy! When my jellies don’t gel I use them as syrup.
On pancakes, vanilla ice cream, in baked goods, or add carbonated
water for “soda”.
Awesome! Yes, a perfect syrup it would be.
Nadine, on another forum, also sent information for making pectin from apple peels that could then be added by reboiling and canning the jelly.
In case anyone is interested in making their own pectin, here is the link to the info:
http://www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com/The_Forager/pectin.htm
I have made jellies for about 30 years. You can rework the jelly and it usually does set but frequently I just use the syrupy stuff for ice creams,pancakes, or to flavor recipes and teas. Do you have any good suggestions for using lemon verbena? I love the way this plant smells and will try it in the white vinegar household cleaner recipe you provided. I can’t wait to see how it does. Also, I’m an amatuer herbalist and absolutely love your site. What an excellent resource for info. Thanks.