Operation Fill The Freezer

[flick]

Last weekend, we were given a bucket of cooking apples, and today I peeled and chopped and lightly cooked them before putting four big bags in the freezer, ready for making crumble latter in the year

Comments

[resonant]

Does lightly cooking help them last longer, like blanching?

[flick]

You know, I have no idea. It probably does.

(I was doing it because the first stage of my apple crumble cooking is to lightly cook the apples, and this way I don't need to do that when I use the fruit.)

[_nicolai_]

Might some sharp sand on the matting improve the grip for horses and people?

[flick]

I think it would just run through the holes, tbh. It's this sort of stuff, and even when the grass has grown through it it can be a bit slippery, but it's better than mud!

[_nicolai_]

Yes, I think you're right. I was imagining a flatter upper surface to it, I think sand will just run down into the gaps there. And enough sand to fill the gaps would both be expensive, and squash the grasss, doubleplus ungood.

[frostfox]

I went scrumping at the business centre again today, I've had a very good crop of Bramleys off three trees but that's the end of them for this year. The remaining apples are too high up, too small or too maggoty to be of interest, plus I have broken the picker, much get a new basket for next year.
Eating baked apple with custard (packet, take that, Titchyknob) as I type.

FF

[drplokta]

We had exactly one Bramley this year from the tree that we planted a year and a half ago. We expect more next year.

[resonant]

I had to look up "scrumping".