59 minutes ago, Smithy said:One of the crabapple trees a mile or so down the road produces delightfully tart-sweet, crunchy fruit every 2 or 3 years. This year its crop was especially good. I came back from a walk or two with a couple of quarts' worth. The only problem with them is that they're labor-intensive to get the seeds out...and I'm not a fan of applesauce so they can be cooked down without coring.
They'll be going into litle hand pastries, I think.
What about a hand food mill? That's what I use for apple sauce. I don't peel them or core them...just cook them and then into the mill.
ps. We have no apples this year. Two years ago the harvest was so heavy that a branch actually broke right off our Macintosh tree.