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  • From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] and now for something completely different:CRABAPPLES!!!
  • Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 14:53:06 -0500

I made apple butter with my crabapples. I steamed them whole until they were soft, then put them through a food mill to remove the seeds and skin. Then I cooked them down, adjusting the sugar and seasoning (cinnomon and clove) as it cooked down. It's really 'zingy' and good.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co, PA
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rebecca Lewinski" <rebas_own AT hotmail.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 1:09 PM
Subject: [Homestead] and now for something completely different:CRABAPPLES!!!



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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