Right, I’m an idle cook blessed with a garden either side of me with superb cooking apples and this year it’s the best crop I have seen in many years. There is one problem which is the time cost effective method of cooking them. Yesterday I cut them into quarters, got rid of any insect damage, pealed the quarters covered them with water, bought them to the boil reducing it to a simmer until they had all disintegrated into a mush which my wife then fed through a sieve.
My thought is that there just has to be a better way, so, what about just cutting them into quarters, getting rid of any insect damage and then bunging into a saucepan, bringing them to a boil then a simmer and then giving them to my wife to put through a sieve?
If anyone has a better idea please tell me because there are hundred weights of cookning apples waiting to be scrumped, cooked and frozen to have over the next few months with icecream.
My thought is that there just has to be a better way, so, what about just cutting them into quarters, getting rid of any insect damage and then bunging into a saucepan, bringing them to a boil then a simmer and then giving them to my wife to put through a sieve?
If anyone has a better idea please tell me because there are hundred weights of cookning apples waiting to be scrumped, cooked and frozen to have over the next few months with icecream.