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Cooking & Baking

brer cat

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5. I never cared for pickled crabapples, but they make the best applesauce ever.

Reply to Retrograde (Reply #4)

Thu Nov 23, 2023, 12:44 AM

Nov 2023

The apples we buy come from older places in the area where the old trees are still producing. There may be some in your area. Do you have something like a farmers' bulletin where people post their want/sale items? You might find them there.

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Crabapples - are they still a thing? [View all] Retrograde Nov 2023 OP

Until your post, I hadn't thought of them in many years. Glorfindel Nov 2023 #1

I haven't seen them in a grocery for decades. They were always used as decoration sinkingfeeling Nov 2023 #2

We find them at our local farmers' market brer cat Nov 2023 #3

That's a little far for me! Retrograde Nov 2023 #4

I never cared for pickled crabapples, but they make the best applesauce ever. brer cat Nov 2023 #5

I have a crabapple tree. My niece Emile Nov 2023 #6

The only crabapples I've ever known were ones that PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2023 #7