FORAGING CRABAPPLES + What To Do With Them | Vegan Cooking | Plant Based Jam | HCLF

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Lots of people know the trees that lose their leaves in autumn and keep their tiny red fruits throughout winter but aren't aware that the latter are edible. After figuring the tiny crab apples are sour but can be used as food, I decided to go foraging and then experimented with my first crab apple harvest in my kitchen.
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// WHAT TO DO WITH CRAB APPLES //
I didn't follow any recipes but did some freestyle cooking. Here's the details:
1. As I'm not a big jelly fan, I made an easy jam. The time consuming preparation included removing the seeds, bad spots and blossoms of the crab apples. Once I was done, I filled them into a pot, covered the fruits with water and cooked them into a mushy pulp. For sweetening, I added raw cane sugar until it was sweet enough for my personal taste. I didn't puree the pulp because I wanted a chunky jam. Due to the high pectin content of the apples, the pulp was already pretty firm, so I only added about 0.5 teaspoon of agar agar, activated in a little lemon juice.
2. I made a cloudy apple juice. This time I only removed bad spots and blossoms, but didn't cut the apples. I filled them into a pot and roughly estimated the amount of water needed to cover the fruits. I filled the water into my high speed blender and added raisins (dates would work great, too, I think). I blended the water raisin mix, adding more raisins until it was sweet enough for my personal taste. Then poured the liquid into the pot and cooked everything into a mushy pulp. The latter went into a strainer that was sitting on a big bowl and was lined with a fine laundry mesh (nut milk bag or cheese cloth would work, too). I let the juice drip into the bowl for about 2 hours, then closed the laundry bag and pressed and squeezed out all the remaining liquid.
The method described leads to a cloudy juice, exactly what I wanted. If you prefer clear juice, use a jelly straining bag like this one: www.amazon.com...
More things you can do with crab apples:
● Make a jelly (make sure to use organic sugar for a vegan jelly): www.bbcgoodfood...
● Pickle them (make sure to use vegan vinegar and sugar): theviewfromgrea...
● Make syrup, fruit leater or apple butter (for the leather, to make sure to use maple syrup for a vegan version, and use organic sugar for the other recipes): www.uaf.edu/fil...
My raspberry jam recipe mentioned in the video:
• BEST RASPBERRY JAM EVE...
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