Eating Apples - How to store for the winter - Can anyone help.

[ed_blackadder_1]

The Apple Fairy has just been and dropped off 2 bags of eating apples on my doorstep, can anyone help with how to store for the winter, they are lovely and clean with no blemishes so it would be a shame to use for cooking.

[rhubarbcity]

We just used to wrap each loosely in paper place in a box and store in a cool place, make sure they don't touch

[ed_blackadder_1]

Does it have to be brown paper or can I use newspaper?

[rhubarbcity]

We always used newspaper, and put under the bed in the spare bedroom, it was cool as we didn't have heating, you do need to check ever so often

[ed_blackadder_1]

Thank you thats very helpful, I have plenty of newspaper and I could put them in the garage. I was going to have a go at drying some as well.

[captainbovine]

oooh never thought of drying off some apples, for wreaths at Christmas?

I have tons of apples too and just can't eat them all on my own, the neighbours don't want them either....why won't people have a couple of lovely fresh English apples from me?

[1311rose]

I'd have some but I'm too far away from you!

I got a load of crab-apples yesterday from the trees at work.  I've made a batch of crab-apple and rosemary jelly and will make  batches of crab-apple and mint and crab-apple and thyme with the remainder.  The trees were covered in fruit and it was just going to waste.  Got some lovely jars to put it in so easy pressie

[ed_blackadder_1]

My husband is staying with friends tonight after having helped his brother move house, and he has found some crab apples so another job for me during the week. Putting mint with it sounds great I must try that. Waiting for rose hips now if the farmers haven't chopped them all off.

[lhasa.two]

captain   Your glut of apples made me think that perhaps with all the 'food banks' around it could be a good place to take them...

I was only thinking about this earlier when drinking my coffee looking out of my kitchen window at neighbours enormous fruit laden trees - it's been a brilliant year for apples -  and nearly all of them will go to waste...  

As for storage, in the 'old' days there were lovely wooden apple boxes with slats in the bottom. You placed the apples on them (without touching) and put them in a cold room or the attic. You could also cook some up for 'apple sauce' and make heaps of chutney for Christmas presents. 

[ed_blackadder_1]

Thanks I have already made 10 jars  of chutney and 10 jars of jam with the cookers and have 20 bags of stewed apple for apple sauce and 7 Apple crumbles in the freezer, it was just that the eaters don't cook down well unless you do an open tart. and like captain I am finding it hard to give them away, we have quite a few houses in the village that have just put bags of them by their gates with free to a good home on them, such a shame to waste them.

[rose2008-2008]

You been busy Ed cooorrrrr lucky people Apple Crumble my favourite mmmmmmmm.

[lhasa.two]

OMG, well done you!

I thought I had been good making bramble jelly, bramble & apple jam, redcurrant jelly, fig chutney, greengage jam, blueberry jam etc etc LOL

I don't actually have an apple tree in my garden. 

[ed_blackadder_1]

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@lhasa.one wrote:

OMG, well done you!

I thought I had been good making bramble jelly, bramble & apple jam, redcurrant jelly, fig chutney, greengage jam, blueberry jam etc etc LOL

I don't actually have an apple tree in my garden. 

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Me neither its all freebies