10.17.2006


Mom dropped some wild crabapples and some of her Concords off at our house before we left for Long Island. I should be putting them into jars right now instead of putting snapshots in an electronic belly. Vibrant fall colors are so pretty on my kitchen floor, though.

Spun by Abigail on Tuesday, October 17, 2006

5 comments :

Anonymous said...

Concord grapes are wonderful. I talked Teman into buying 2 cases. (Almost all of Rundy's grapes split from excess rain, and spoiled. Drat.) They were wonderful--and we wound up having enough for us all to eat plenty plain, to make 5 yummy beyond imagining pies, and 40 pints of quickly-being-devoured jam. And it was a good thing they ran out after that, because I ran out of pint jars.

10/17/2006 2:25 PM
Rebecca said...

What do you do with crabapples?

10/18/2006 5:34 AM
Abigail said...

Those 40 pints will probably not last out October, if the stories I've heard are true! I've never had a grape pie, and I'd had the time, I would have skinned these babies to make one. (I was lazy, though, and just made grape juice, some of which may be made into grape jelly during the winter when I'm not running around like a headless chicken.)

Rebecca,
Crabapple jelly is the standard way to use them, and I made jelly and yummy apple butter with them. I love the tartness and unusual flavor of wild crabapples, and I want to make some pies with them, too, if I get more.

10/19/2006 7:43 AM
Michelle said...

Oooh, my mouth is watering at the sight of those grapes! That sweet puckery taste is so delicious! :P (That is me drooling...)

10/24/2006 6:57 PM
Abigail said...

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(That's a plate on which your drool can fall.)

10/26/2006 11:53 AM

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