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How do you make crab apple syrup??? Sheesh, I never even thought about using crabapples for anything, though we've been trying to make use of everything edible on our property, except our own chickens, of course! I'll trade you some salsa peppers for some tomatoes...we didn't get ANY tomatoes from our garden this year!
Have you ever heard of the nutri-steamer? (
http://www.ultimate-weight-products.com/page/UN/PROD/stainless/H-bb-n12&QTS=froogle) Well I hadn't, until my friend got one, and she started steaming EVERYthing! It was so awesome ~ and took hardly any prep time or even watching time ~ a FANTASTIC canning product if ever there was one!
Anyway, if you use this steamer, it will get the juice out of the crabapples, without any hardly any work at all. The juice is VERY sour, however, with sugar added, it makes a HEAVENLY syrup, just cook it till it boils, let it boil for about 5 minutes, to thicken ( it won't be terribly thick unless you add karo syrup or similar, however, i don't like karo syrup, so I just used turbinado sugar, which worked very well & so would regular white sugar.) then take it off, and either can it (with a 25 minute water bath) or use it!
The syrup also makes a delicious sweet n sour sauce for your asian cooking. You can also add pectin (simply use the recipe for grape jelly, with the low sugar pectin version) & it makes a very tasty jelly. (Similar to fireweed jelly, almost.)
This steamer is so great though, I have never wanted to go to all the trouble to steam & press & sieve my rose hips, even though they are a fantastic source of Vitamin C, among other things, but with this steamer, it is a BREEZE!
I am saving up all of my rose hips and making rose hip mint jelly this year, because that steamer makes it soooo easy!
And that link is the best price for one too. I paid $150 for mine off of
eBay ~ they are $200 in the store.
~Red
) and put that into each pocket, then spread mayonnaise into it, just to layer the sides with it, and then fill with cranberry sauce.
