We’re trying to catch up with the garden which has been doing rather well without us. We’ve found the patio again, which is useful as it doubles as a workshop, so now we can get on with making a compost bin out of pallets I’ve been collecting*. The slugs very kindly decided to let us keep the leeks in exchange for the kohl-rabi.
The boys spent some time harvesting apples until they ran out of buckets. There are several more apple trees, and some pear trees, and a lot of blackberries.
Apples are very useful things -we’re currently using a bucketful as a door stop- but I’m hoping some of you have some apple-based recipes so we can preserve some of the harvest and keep eating them through winter. In particular, all our apple chutney recipes require malt vinegar, which we can’t get. Can we just substitute other vinegars and carry on regardless?
*I can report that transporting pallets with a Bakfiets is possible, and jolly exciting down hills.
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September 14, 2011 at 4:29 pm
Oldfool
Yes you can. Just Google apple chutney recipes.
I love chutney but I’ve never made any. The recipe that a friend used has red wine vinegar but I can’t seem to find it. if I ever get some surplus apples Ii’ll make some.
Right now I’m being a carpenter.
September 17, 2011 at 4:16 pm
Andy in Germany
Thanks OF. Now we have to find time to make the stuff, in the middle of making the garden ready for winter, and fixing middle son’s bike, and building the compost toilet…
September 14, 2011 at 11:26 pm
the_big_smile
Did you try Apple Jam?
Apples, “Gelierzucker” (We used 3:1 in the correct ratio.), some Lemon Juice and a little bit of Cinnamon. (Allwas be carefull, not to overdose Cinnamon!)
First peel the the apples, cut the “Kerngehäuse” out and chop them to dices about 5 mm. Cook them with the “Gelierzucker” and ad some lemon juice an Cinnamon. (I used the juice of one Lemon and fairly half a teaspoon of Cinnamon for 1 kg chopped apples.)
All together should boil about an hour.
Fill it into glasses and seal the glasses while hot.
Tastes fine!
And you can mix other fruits into it, as long as you correct the amount of “Gelierzucker” according to the amount of fruits (including aples) you use.
September 17, 2011 at 4:17 pm
Andy in Germany
Thanks Bog Smila: I like the idea of apple jam. Thanks for the ingredient suggestions as well: it can be suprisingly hard to find simple stuff if you dont know the name in the local langiuage.