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Uses for Crab Apples

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  • 20-09-2020 8:33pm
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    Jim_Hodge
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    I've a huge glut of crab apples this year. A relative has taken her usual quantity for crab apple jelly but I'm left with bucket loads. Has anybody any ideas for other uses? I'll have plenty of cooking and eating apples shortly but hate to throw away these crabs.


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    magicbastarder
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    cider?
    juicing them can be a pain though.


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    rje66
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    Cider no
    Jelly yes


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    SouthWesterly
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    Think yourself lucky. We have 7kg sloes, 3 kg rosehip, 3 kg elderberry, 13 kg blackberry, 8 kg rowan Berry and 4 crates of crabapple


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    sdp
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    Besides Jelly, I've made pickled crab apples, and crab apple liqueur,( Gin or Vodka,) and chutney.


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    Alun
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    SouthWesterly wrote: »
    Think yourself lucky. We have 7kg sloes, 3 kg rosehip, 3 kg elderberry, 13 kg blackberry, 8 kg rowan Berry and 4 crates of crabapple
    Not sure if you could use the crab apples for it, I usually use bramleys, but you could make sloe jelly and rowan jelly with the berries, and sloe gin of course!


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    looksee
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    sdp wrote: »
    Besides Jelly, I've made pickled crab apples, and crab apple liqueur,( Gin or Vodka,) and chutney.

    The chutney sounds like a possibility!


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    SouthWesterly
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    I saw nice Kelly's. Crab and mint, crab and orange, crab and sloe.. Crab and anything else you want.

    I ordered 48 more jars last night.
    I've 16 jars of blackberry jam
    3 bottles of elderberry syrup
    10 jars of rowan and apple jelly(some with rosemary)
    9l of blackberry wine


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    legend99
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    SouthWesterly wrote: »
    Think yourself lucky. We have 7kg sloes, 3 kg rosehip, 3 kg elderberry, 13 kg blackberry, 8 kg rowan Berry and 4 crates of crabapple

    13kg of blackberries?! That's a lot of blackberries!


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    SouthWesterly
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    legend99 wrote: »
    13kg of blackberries?! That's a lot of blackberries!

    We got over a kilo from our back garden and didn't get them all


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    legend99
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    SouthWesterly wrote: »
    We got over a kilo from our back garden and didn't get them all

    That sounds like an excellent return. I must look into getting some plants so - return from the apple trees and pear tree here is pretty sparse - I think a total of 15 pears on the pear tree which isn't great


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    smacl
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    rje66 wrote: »
    Cider no
    Jelly yes

    You can certainly make cider from crab apples, see https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/using-crabapples-in-cider.232884/ for some further discussion.


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    looksee
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    Or also if you don't really need them you can just leave them for the birds!


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    SouthWesterly
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    legend99 wrote: »
    That sounds like an excellent return. I must look into getting some plants so - return from the apple trees and pear tree here is pretty sparse - I think a total of 15 pears on the pear tree which isn't great

    My back garden is nearly 5 acres :)

    Made a crab apple and mint jelly this evening


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