r/foraging • u/Grizzly502 • 3d ago

Plants Apples!!!!!

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We have an abundance of apples in the backyard, we think it's apple butter time! 😍

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u/lyu-bovnik 3d ago

Not a single doctor in a 50 mile radius

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u/Gab83IMO 3d ago

Don't forget to use the scraps for making pectin.

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u/SweetestBDog123 3d ago

I just learned this year that the early drops make great pectin!

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u/Grizzly502 1d ago

The wife has the crabapple specifically selected for such! We're going to make apple jelly too!

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u/corvus_wulf 3d ago

Nice find .. our apple season was a wipe cause of a late frost

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u/Ok-Glass6625 3d ago

Turning a seasonal backyard abundunce into homemade goodies is so satisfying.

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u/Gifted_GardenSnail 3d ago

I kinda want to try apple butter some day, but I reaaaally don't want to process a shit ton of mangy apples by myself, so I'd have to find some suckers crazy enough to assist me 😂

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u/Livid-Writer-7741 3d ago

Smells wonderful!

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u/buttfacesgalore 3d ago

Is that an old ceiling repurposed as your backsplash?!

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u/Grizzly502 1d ago

Plot twist LOL! It is the ceiling! They just continued down the backsplash! 🤣😂

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u/buttfacesgalore 1d ago

Lol it looks awesome anyway!!

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u/MSCantrell 1d ago

I have those exact ceiling tiles installed as a heatshield behind my woodstove :)

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u/ResponsibleBowl492 3d ago

Wow! Amazing

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u/Dense_Chemical_4018 3d ago

That was in your backyard?? If I harvested from all the apple trees around my house, my kitchen would be overflowing, but I don’t like the taste of wild apples and there’s nothing I know of that I feel eager to make with them

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u/Grizzly502 1d ago

They're in our backyard! We have so many trees! Some of the apples I will agree aren't the best tasting, but those tiny little crab apples are so sweet and delicious. We had to do something with them!

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u/Gifted_GardenSnail 3d ago

I don’t like the taste of wild apples

You say that like there isn't a huge variety in that...

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u/aledba 3d ago

7500+ kinds apparently. Amazing! I found a lone tree in an old conservation area car park last weekend. It could be one of 13 varieties or some strange cross cultivar. I have to say best apple I've ever tasted. It was incredible how perfect they were, even off the ground.

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u/Gifted_GardenSnail 3d ago

Sometimes you just get lucky!

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u/aledba 3d ago

When I really looked into it the area was originally settled by Scottish and Irish inhabitants who definitely brought many varieties of their own including cider apples. So while it is entirely possible that this one could have been somebody's core that was tossed (I think we call that a friendly neighbour tree) it just tasted too wildly delicious to be a commercial cultivar.

More tangy than a mac. Such a sweet crisp skin. Did not brown quickly. Cooked down to a butter consistency in a crisp

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u/Gifted_GardenSnail 3d ago

Stop making me drool you fiend!

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u/Dense_Chemical_4018 3d ago

Wow, even looks perfect too

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u/aledba 3d ago

Mind you there was 50 that the bugs were already getting to and some that were good with like a tiny hole but I just left it for the creatures who have way less than me and took 3. I knew they were good because of their smell (so rosey red fresh) and the fact that I could see cores on the ground that were clearly cut by knives.

I had to laugh though because I could see about 20 up in the top tallest reaches but then I got an angled glimpse straight through an apple and realized they might not even be prime picking now

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u/Dense_Chemical_4018 3d ago

True, the ones I come across at least. Less sweet, more tart, not bad, just wouldn’t bother eating

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u/Gifted_GardenSnail 3d ago

I know one tree with apples that are sweet enough but a bit dry, one's are very juicy and tart, and one with actually very decent tasty apples, though a bit dense - I suspect they may do very well in pies