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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

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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