![]() Cut the apples into thumb-sized pieces (larger pieces are hard for the blender to deal with and get stuck on the blade if you fill the blender – which you will). Wash the apples to remove all excess dirt or grit. linen bag, nut milk bag, or old, clean cotton t-shirt.knife + cutting board + apple core remover (not essential, but faster.The fun is just beginning! What are you going to do with all this your bounty? and to indulge with: Apple Almond Cake with Crumble Topping.Beluga Lentil Salad with Apple and Summer Herbs.Though you’ll miss out on all the fun that’s about to follow, so you may want to try this anyway.Īnd then, when you get sick of juice, well, there are other options, too. Unless of course you own a juicer then use that. Recipe to follow.īut for now, apple juice. I used some of this fresh apple juice to create a new recipe for granola, and turned out the crispiest, chunkiest granola on record. I’m confident (er, strongly hoping) that apples will be available any day now – the neighbors down the road have the same challenge my father-in-law did does – more apples than they can eat off of trees producing record quantities.īut now, that’s more a pleasure than a problem: forget making lemons into lemonade – it’s apple juice we’re talking about, and it’s way, way better. So now, I’m on the lookout for more free apples (anyone?!?). Fresh, clean, sweet, crisp, with just the right balance of tartness, I can’t say I’ve had better apple juice anywhere.Īnd, well, it does give a whole new meaning to the concept of “hand-pressed juice”. This is seriously some of the best apple juice I’ve ever tasted. We may need to go back for another visit tomorrow. I poured this through into a linen bag (a nut milk bag or old, clean t-shirt would work as well) twisted the top, and “milked” the juice out of the bag. After tamping the apples a few times, the blender made short work of the apples, and I was left with apple puree. I filled my trusty blender to the brim, and sent the blades spinning. I washed the apples, removed the cores, left the skin on, and chopped them into thumb-sized chunks. ![]() So I decided to hack a juicer – with my blender + a linen bag. Heavy for their size, and so juicy you couldn’t bite into one without juice running down the apple, onto your hand and dripping on the floor, there would have been no point in trying to turn these into sauce or pie. ![]() They were clearly apples meant to be pressed into juice. There could have been more, but I declined, because I reasoned: “what are two people going to do with more than 5 kg of apples”. He sent me home with a big pail of apples. No worries, though: my father-in-law has 2 apple trees in his yard that are ripe and loaded, and he’s more than happy to share. We don’t own any apple trees ourselves, but we do own “apple shares” in an organic apple farm, from which we get boxes full of beautiful, delicious Amarosa apples every October. There’s no better time to make fresh apple juice.īut if you don’t own a juicer or a juice press, how in the world are you gonna make apple juice? Turns out – there’s an easy way to get the job done. We are now looking at apple trees loaded with apples, everywhere we go. The pollinators got busy, and with sunny days and no rain during this glorious Spring it appears they’ve done their job well. With the warm spring, the apple blossoms were more abundant than they’ve been in 10 years in Finland. Ladies and gentlemen, apple season is upon us. ![]()
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