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Heh,
     Mostly my brother and I threw them at each other,  but my mother made 
some really good crabapple jams and jelly. She also made a  compote of some 
sort 
with them and canned that too. I wish I had her recipes, I  would pass them 
to you, but I do not.
 
Good luck,
Drew
 
 
In a message dated 11/6/2008 1:10:14 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
rebas_own AT hotmail.com writes:


hi  all, 
haven't posted anything here since last spring when I was trying to  put in a 
raised garden bed using strawbales.  Spouse was being  excessively 
obstructive so I gave up for this year.  I'm still plotting  on getting that 
raised bed 
in before next spring though, and I'm subversively  getting my neighbors on 
board for getting their own gardens in for next year  (I do believe we will 
all 
be needing them, as the current economic crisis  steamrolls along**).

Thought I'd introduce something other than  politics, so here goes.

I made like a bee last spring and  handpollinated a lot of our fruit trees, 
since our local bees were few in  number and pretty sluggish (I'm hoping my 
newly-installed mason bees will take  over next year).  Since no good deed 
goes 
unpunished, I was rewarded with  a bumper crop of all sorts of fruit, which I 
either canned or took to the  local food bank.  One of the trees turned out 
to 
be a crabapple which is  now rewarding me with a few boxes of fruit.  I'm 
trying out making  crabapple liquer with some of them and I pickled a bunch, 
but I 
still have  dozens of pounds of fruit left.

WHAT DO YOU DO WITH  CRABAPPLES???

I need ideas!  Points for silliness, in addition to  usefulness.

off to start another batch of crabapple  likker...

-Rebecca in the great NorthWet (we're expecting a deluge  tonight on top of 
all the rain we've had this week)
**speaking of the  economic crisis, I highly recommend a daily visit to 
George Ure's website,  UrbanSurvival.  I've been following him for two years 
now 
and his advice  is spot-on.  He's in cahoots with some guys in Olympia, WA, 
who 
devised a  "predictive linguistics" software program.  It sounds like voodoo, 
but  they get pretty good information out of it, and it helps to have a  
headsup.  It saved our  401K...


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