Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption
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Bulgarianlily
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14 sacks of applesI have 14 large sacks of apples. I can't trade them with neighbours as they all have loads already. I think about one third is good enough to put into store, leaving me with about 9 sacks of apples to cut up and process. So far I am making apple chutney, apple and green tomato chutney, a brown fruit sauce for breakfast, apple compote, spiced apple butter, and apple jelly.
What you would do with the remaining 7 sacks? I have no livestock to eat them.
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Behemoth
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Fruit leather
Juice
Cider
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gil
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Cider; apple wine, Apple juice.
Other kinds of jelly from low-pectin fruit that apple inclusion would help set.
Spiced or herby apple jelly.
Dried apple rings
Freeze stewed apple for use as apple sauce.
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Bulgarianlily
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Best way of turning it into juice? I haven't got the apple press / scruncher yet, 
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Nick
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Spend an hour building a press. That's all it'll take.
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Bulgarianlily
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The press I can figure out, it is how to get the apples well mashed up before you put them into the press that has me stumped. Right now I am whizzing them in the food processor, then boiling them with some water, then running them through a jelly bag....
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Nick
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Electric drill, with a cutty thing, in a bucket.
Mash with a log, in a bucket.
Food processor, if you're happy to wear it out.
Garden shredder, petrol (this is the best way).
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