Peaches and Apples
@capirani (2817)
United States
October 21, 2008 7:13pm CST
I just made the first homemade apple sauce I have made in about 16 years! Don't ask why so long...it's a long story. Anyway, I was thinking about all the things I can still make with the apples I have here. My daughter has an apple tree and a peach tree and every year this fruit just pretty much goes to waste. I didn't realize until this year that her trees produced so much. Nothing was ever done to keep the worms away so she never really did much with them, if anything. I think next year I am going to make arrangements to have as much from her apple and peach trees as I can manage to get.
So, my question is this: What all can I do with the peaches? I don't want to deal with canning them. I want to make things and freeze them. For instance, I know I can make peach pie, peach cobbler, peach crisp. Is there such a thing as peach sauce made like apple sauce?
My mom always made apple sauce in large quantities and froze it so we had it all year long. Also, she made apple cobbler, without baking it, and froze it so it would be available to bake all year long. I would like to do things like this with the peaches too. Also, other apple ideas are welcome.
Okay all you mylot cooks out there....what do you do with fresh peaches and fresh apples?
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@happythoughts (4109)
• United States
22 Oct 08
When we get a lot of extra fruit we clean them and put them in the blender. We freeze them in small bags and use them through the year. We make smoothies, ice cream toping, or just eat them like apple sauce.
@capirani (2817)
• United States
23 Oct 08
Unless I misunderstood, it is against the rules to start a discussion with a recipe, but not to respond with them. But I may be wrong. I see them on here all the time though.
@fasttalker (2796)
• United States
22 Oct 08
I make apple butter and I start with applesauce. If not you can cook your apples down to applesauce first.
Place 6 cup of applesauce in a crockpot
Add 1 package of red hot candies (or you can use 3-4 drops of liquid cinnamon but the red hots will add color to the finsihed apple butter.)
2 cups sugar
1 tsp ground cloves
Make sure you place aluminum foil over your crock before putting the lid on. This prevents the water from gathering on the glass lid. And set your crockpot on high and cook for at least 6 hours more if possible. Stir occasinally but don't stir too often as you will loose your heat. Place in jars and if it doesn't seal turn them upside down and they will.
Have fun!
@capirani (2817)
• United States
23 Oct 08
Thanks. This sounds fairly easy to do. I never heard of that trick about turning the jars over to get them to seal.
