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  • From: DSanner106 AT aol.com
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] and now for something completely different: CRABAPPLES!!!
  • Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 13:55:08 EST

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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