23 October 2008
Apples Apples Everywhere
It is autumn. Which means its apple season here in Ohio. Last weekend I went driving around the country side because it was my birthday and I do random things like drive with no place to go. I love looking at the colorful leaves (no matter how weak they look this year because the summer was so dry), being out of the city, and finding random new things in the areas around where I live.
One of those things was an apple orchard. My roommate and I bought an entire peck of apples for about 8 dollars (that’s alot of apples, about 10 pounds). We got granny smiths, cortlands, and rose varieties. We also got a gallon of real apple cider (non-pasturized which means after enough time we could have some real fun with that liquid gold).
That’s almost a 50% discount compared to supermarket prices of $1.50-$1.70 per pound of apples, we got them at about $0.75 a pound!
But what in the world do two people do with ten pounds of apples?
You freeze them.
Following my new Joy of Cooking cook book, it recommends 1/2 a cup of sugar to 4 pounds of apples, give or take some sugar depending on your method (one requires you to blanche the apples before freezing). So I peeled, cored, and sliced about 8 pounds of those apples and mixed them with sugar. After that I spread them on baking sheets to freeze individually, then transferred them to large ziplock bags for storage in the deep-freeze.
What in the world am I going to do with them from here? Probably make pies in the cold dark months of winter that are ahead of us. Or other tasty apple foods that wouldn’t need specifically fresh apples (like my contest winning Apple Cider Ice Cream).
Tags: easy, fruit, vegan, vegetarian
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