Lets get pickled!

OK it probably will not look or taste anythink like this but at least it’s ours!

When we moved into our house a little over two years ago we noticed to one side in the garden was a fairly big apple tree. For the first couple of years it really didn’t really produce much in the way of fruit, but this year! I don’t know if it’s because of the unusually sunny April we’ve had or the extra rain we’ve had over the past few weeks but the trees actually bending under the weight of the apples. So, in an attempt to relieve the poor tree we removed about 5kg of apples and then wondered what on earth we were going to do with them. Not being one who likes to waste food we decided to try our hand at making something.

A short while of looking through our recipe books and surfing the net we came accross an old book which had mainly preserves and pickles in it, which is where we found a recipe for ‘Apple, Onion and Mint pickle’.

An afternoon of chopping slicing and dicing has left us with five 750ml jars of pickle that now needs to sit for about a month. By the end of August the pickle should be ready to eat (apparently it’s very good with cheese!) and I will make a post telling you all about the flavour, the smell and whether it was a worthwhile process.

If in the meantime anyone else has any recipes for using up an abundance of cooking apples then please feel free to send them to me.