I just stumbled upon this channel, I’ve never really worked on a garden but listening to you talk about it makes me want you. You’re energy is amazing sir you’ve just uplifted my day, thank you!
I love your videos! This year I tried for the first time to make Apple Syrup, by cooking down apples, straining them with a jelly bag overnight, and then cooking the juice down until it became thick. It is fantastic over yogurt, pancakes, and ice cream!!!
I love using apples with the berry mix and making a nice crisp for the family to enjoy! Really loved all your ideas on storing and how you store them correctly!
I just made apple butter for the first time - delicious. Canned 7 jars for self and gifts. Will definitely make more and recommend for toast, and alongside cheese and biscuits, or for baking with. Ideal if you have a slow cooker or an AGA.
Having inherited two apple trees, a plum tree, and countless wild blackberries in the house we bought a few years ago ... there is only so many puddings you can make ... so I decided to make wine from them all. It's cheap, it's pretty easy and delicious. If you drink wine, you'll save a fortune from store bought versions. There is no end to your options too, last year I made a wine from the leftover tomato crop, that was the tastiest wine yet, but they've all been good.
See the comment re applesauce: "One thing not mentioned in the video is that if you peel the apples as well as core them before juicing, the remaining pulp in the sieve can be turned into applesauce by simply adding a little sugar and a pinch or two of cinnamon to taste." Hope this helps. :-)
Applesauce! I grew up with a Golden Delicious tree in our backyard. Home made applesauce was a staple in our home served regularly at dinner and is way better than anything you can buy at the store. It freezes well and can be processed in large quantities.
Delicious applesauce! One thing not mention in the video is that if you peel the apples as well as core them before juicing, the remaining pulp in the sieve can be turned into applesauce by simply adding a little sugar and a pinch or two of cinnamon to taste.
I love all of your videos! So happy to have found this channel. I’ve been canning apples for years and I think having apple pie filling spiced and ready to pour up into pie crusts to bake is a great time saver and also a fun way to store apples. I’ve added bourbon for a boozy apple dessert for clients, but my favorite is a standard apple pie filling served warm with vanilla ice cream or in crêpes!
Why, thank you! Traditional apple presses are always the most efficient way of pressing apples to enjoy juice. Some places offer a bring-your-own apples service, where you take along your apples for pressing and they'll give you an equivalent amount of apple juice to take away. But if you've not loads of apples the stewing method works well.
I didn't know about the lemon juice preventing coloring, thanks for the tip. Stored a ton of apples this year, and all the bruised, bad or wormy ones were still good for drying. Also I chop up apples and freeze them in portions for apple strudel :) Apples are the best :)
We foraged a few late summer kilos from the tree opposite our home with all the neighbours and made sauces and chutney. It was so satisfying to make them, as it wouldn't have lasted the winter, our cellar is not cold to store long. Will try apple chips next year. But our apples were not that good, some had worms in them.
We have loads of apple trees in upstate ny, they store well in a refrigerator but space is an issue. I make hand pies, frozen apple purée...enjoyed all your ideas too!
I miss eating apples. Im Keto now, and can't have them because of the high sugar content. Thanks for the education. I will be using some of your suggestions. I have many family and friends that will love the dehydrated apples, and apple juice..
Using a solar oven for the drying process is a great way to free up your oven, while saving on energy. Run out of sun for the day? A quality oven allows you to seal foods inside overnight to try again the next day. Scorching food in a solar oven is pretty much impossible as well. I made bread in there, leaving it for a couple hours past completion. Someone also once gave me a peeler with a crank. Push the fruit on, turn the crank, and it will be peeled, or turned into a sliced apple "slinky", or both! Easy to finish making the slices after it's a slinky. Makes it fun for the kids. ;)
Merci! Just an add on... Yo Alice tour Apples for dehydrating, instead of cutting them with a knife, use your revolving tool, from the beginning of your video, pull away the peeler and slice and core. Take the sliced still round apple and slice vertically thru. You will get perfect slices in no time!
* All of the apple scraps (except the seeds) can be used to make jelly. Just follow a recipe and replace the amount of apples called for with your scraps. * Another use is a natural vinegar. There numerous tutorials on the internet on how to do this. * Finally, you can toss the scraps into a bucket and top them off with water. Cover the bucket with a cloth to keep out insects and let it ferment for a week. Strain out the solids for your compost pile and mix the liquid in with your normal watering schedule to feed the micro-fauna in your garden.
Thanks for all the good ideas. FYI I bought my eyeglasses through Zenni Optical online only $58. When I bought from an optician the same were $300! I'm getting blue frames next time. Your daughter and wife made a good choice.
Pumpkins keep well, so you shouldn't need to worry too much. Harvest them with a lot of stalk then keep them outside to finish fully colouring up. If it's very frost, bring them into a greenhouse or cold frame if you have one. Store them somewhere well ventilated, ideally between 50-60F (10-15C) and away from frost. They'll be fine till Halloween and unused pumpkins may even store like this until early next spring.
If it's a very light frost that merely lightly kissed the apples then they'll probably still be fine to harvest and use. You'll be able to tell right away anyhow. If the apples have gone soft where the frost touched then clearly the flesh inside has been damaged. If they're still firm to the touch then get on and harvest them now before you get a harder frost.
thanks a lot for sharing, very kind of you and useful indeed. Do you have any experience with drying the apples in a conservatory or in the air, instead of the oven?
I haven't personally, but I know you can thread thin apple slices onto a line of cotton thread and then suspend the slices over a heat source to dry - e.g. a radiator or wood burner. Someone here has also suggested using a solar dryer, but you'd need to be somewhere relatively sunny to use this I guess. You could try cutting them as thinly as possible and laying them in the sun in the conservatory. If you do this, I'd recommend first treating the slices in lemon juice so they don't go brown. And check the slices regularly for any signs or deterioration. Really oven or dehydrator is best.
Cooking damage enzymes and photochemical,peels are healthy fibers probiotics if organic ,harvested from ur own home apple trees.Safe energy by drying in glass rooms or under sun light as dehydrators use a lot of energy.Used dehydrator all time till asked by a young intellegent doctor ,how much energy are you using?that was the end of not using dehydrators for drying mints,apple slices,tomatoes,use sun shine .Thank you .
Apple cider is one of our favorites. We don’t make it ourselves, though. We give apples to a cider maker and we get some cider in exchange. 😊
I STORE MINE IN CLAY POTS BURIED IN THE GROUND STILL GOOD IN MARCH
I just stumbled upon this channel, I’ve never really worked on a garden but listening to you talk about it makes me want you. You’re energy is amazing sir you’ve just uplifted my day, thank you!
You've very welcome Sam - thanks so much for watching.
Using newspaper for planting containers is pretty smart, thanks!
I love your videos! This year I tried for the first time to make Apple Syrup, by cooking down apples, straining them with a jelly bag overnight, and then cooking the juice down until it became thick. It is fantastic over yogurt, pancakes, and ice cream!!!
Sounds totally delicious!
I love using apples with the berry mix and making a nice crisp for the family to enjoy! Really loved all your ideas on storing and how you store them correctly!
I just made apple butter for the first time - delicious. Canned 7 jars for self and gifts. Will definitely make more and recommend for toast, and alongside cheese and biscuits, or for baking with. Ideal if you have a slow cooker or an AGA.
Having inherited two apple trees, a plum tree, and countless wild blackberries in the house we bought a few years ago ... there is only so many puddings you can make ... so I decided to make wine from them all. It's cheap, it's pretty easy and delicious. If you drink wine, you'll save a fortune from store bought versions. There is no end to your options too, last year I made a wine from the leftover tomato crop, that was the tastiest wine yet, but they've all been good.
Loving this idea to use up a glut! Fantastic!
I am making applesauce this afternoon! What great timing for this video. Ill have to make some apple rings too! Thanks for the idea :)
See the comment re applesauce: "One thing not mentioned in the video is that if you peel the apples as well as core them before juicing, the remaining pulp in the sieve can be turned into applesauce by simply adding a little sugar and a pinch or two of cinnamon to taste." Hope this helps. :-)
Applesauce! I grew up with a Golden Delicious tree in our backyard. Home made applesauce was a staple in our home served regularly at dinner and is way better than anything you can buy at the store. It freezes well and can be processed in large quantities.
Delicious applesauce! One thing not mention in the video is that if you peel the apples as well as core them before juicing, the remaining pulp in the sieve can be turned into applesauce by simply adding a little sugar and a pinch or two of cinnamon to taste.
I love all of your videos! So happy to have found this channel. I’ve been canning apples for years and I think having apple pie filling spiced and ready to pour up into pie crusts to bake is a great time saver and also a fun way to store apples. I’ve added bourbon for a boozy apple dessert for clients, but my favorite is a standard apple pie filling served warm with vanilla ice cream or in crêpes!
Love the addition of bourbon!
Apple crisp and Apple pie freezes well too. I like to freeze serving sizes so don't have to unthaw the whole dessert.
What a wholesome chap, I wish he'd juice my apples. . .
Why, thank you! Traditional apple presses are always the most efficient way of pressing apples to enjoy juice. Some places offer a bring-your-own apples service, where you take along your apples for pressing and they'll give you an equivalent amount of apple juice to take away. But if you've not loads of apples the stewing method works well.
I didn't know about the lemon juice preventing coloring, thanks for the tip.
Stored a ton of apples this year, and all the bruised, bad or wormy ones were still good for drying.
Also I chop up apples and freeze them in portions for apple strudel :)
Apples are the best :)
Glad you still managed to make the most of all that bounty!
It was a good year for apples this year :)
Greetings from upstate NY. I also make fruit leather. I love your channel, please keep it up.
Will do Cee Dee. Thanks for watching.
We foraged a few late summer kilos from the tree opposite our home with all the neighbours and made sauces and chutney. It was so satisfying to make them, as it wouldn't have lasted the winter, our cellar is not cold to store long. Will try apple chips next year. But our apples were not that good, some had worms in them.
We have loads of apple trees in upstate ny, they store well in a refrigerator but space is an issue. I make hand pies, frozen apple purée...enjoyed all your ideas too!
I miss eating apples. Im Keto now, and can't have them because of the high sugar content. Thanks for the education. I will be using some of your suggestions. I have many family and friends that will love the dehydrated apples, and apple juice..
Brilliant advice, thank you!
Using a solar oven for the drying process is a great way to free up your oven, while saving on energy. Run out of sun for the day? A quality oven allows you to seal foods inside overnight to try again the next day. Scorching food in a solar oven is pretty much impossible as well. I made bread in there, leaving it for a couple hours past completion. Someone also once gave me a peeler with a crank. Push the fruit on, turn the crank, and it will be peeled, or turned into a sliced apple "slinky", or both! Easy to finish making the slices after it's a slinky. Makes it fun for the kids. ;)
Love the idea of using a solar oven. No sense in using energy if it's free from the sky.
I’ve got a solar oven and you’re right. You have to wipe condensation off the glass every once in a while. Using a car dashboard is good too
@@johnransom1146 Never considered that, worth a try!
Merci!
Just an add on...
Yo Alice tour Apples for dehydrating, instead of cutting them with a knife, use your revolving tool, from the beginning of your video, pull away the peeler and slice and core. Take the sliced still round apple and slice vertically thru. You will get perfect slices in no time!
Awesome tip - merci bien!
Lovely stuff. Thanks, guys.
Great video and info, thank you!
* All of the apple scraps (except the seeds) can be used to make jelly. Just follow a recipe and replace the amount of apples called for with your scraps.
* Another use is a natural vinegar. There numerous tutorials on the internet on how to do this.
* Finally, you can toss the scraps into a bucket and top them off with water. Cover the bucket with a cloth to keep out insects and let it ferment for a week. Strain out the solids for your compost pile and mix the liquid in with your normal watering schedule to feed the micro-fauna in your garden.
Wonderful tips, many thanks for these!
You’re English and didn’t mention cider? Cider, definitely cider lol
Haha - yes indeed John - very good point!
Thanks for all the good ideas.
FYI
I bought my eyeglasses through Zenni Optical online only $58. When I bought from an optician the same were $300! I'm getting blue frames next time. Your daughter and wife made a good choice.
Thanks, very happy with these glasses. I'm no style guru so take all the sartorial advice I can get!
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I have pumpkins to keep for Halloween and they've just turned what's the best way to keep them and store them
Pumpkins keep well, so you shouldn't need to worry too much. Harvest them with a lot of stalk then keep them outside to finish fully colouring up. If it's very frost, bring them into a greenhouse or cold frame if you have one. Store them somewhere well ventilated, ideally between 50-60F (10-15C) and away from frost. They'll be fine till Halloween and unused pumpkins may even store like this until early next spring.
If the frost has kissed the apples, can they still be harvested and used?
If it's a very light frost that merely lightly kissed the apples then they'll probably still be fine to harvest and use. You'll be able to tell right away anyhow. If the apples have gone soft where the frost touched then clearly the flesh inside has been damaged. If they're still firm to the touch then get on and harvest them now before you get a harder frost.
thanks a lot for sharing, very kind of you and useful indeed.
Do you have any experience with drying the apples in a conservatory or in the air, instead of the oven?
I haven't personally, but I know you can thread thin apple slices onto a line of cotton thread and then suspend the slices over a heat source to dry - e.g. a radiator or wood burner. Someone here has also suggested using a solar dryer, but you'd need to be somewhere relatively sunny to use this I guess. You could try cutting them as thinly as possible and laying them in the sun in the conservatory. If you do this, I'd recommend first treating the slices in lemon juice so they don't go brown. And check the slices regularly for any signs or deterioration. Really oven or dehydrator is best.
many thanks!
Cooking damage enzymes and photochemical,peels are healthy fibers probiotics if organic ,harvested from ur own home apple trees.Safe energy by drying in glass rooms or under sun light as dehydrators use a lot of energy.Used dehydrator all time till asked by a young intellegent doctor ,how much energy are you using?that was the end of not using dehydrators for drying mints,apple slices,tomatoes,use sun shine .Thank you .