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Weekly Cooking (and related issues) Thread

Posted on 09/14/2016 4:29:56 PM PDT by Jamestown1630

It's getting to be Apple Time here in the Mid-Atlantic; and the P&G email newsletter recently had a clever way of serving things in apple cups:

https://www.pgeveryday.com/home-garden/crafts/article/how-to-make-apple-cups

For the see-and-do folks, here's a video of how it's done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kke5d7qNCgM

And to go in them, from the great 'Pick Your Own' site - Cider, which I've never made, but it doesn't look more difficult than any other simple canning; and there's also a link in the article for making fermented and hard cider ;-):

http://www.pickyourown.org/applecider.htm

And last, a very simple recipe for Apple Fritters, from Allrecipes:

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/90295/moms-apple-fritters

-JT


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1 posted on 09/14/2016 4:29:56 PM PDT by Jamestown1630
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To: 2nd amendment mama; 4everontheRight; ADemocratNoMore; afraidfortherepublic; Aliska; Andy'smom; ...

This week: Apples!

(If you would like to be on or off of this weekly cooking thread ping-list, please send a private message.)

-JT


2 posted on 09/14/2016 4:31:19 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

If our drought ceases (will it ever?) and the heat dies down, I may start to think about autumn food, my favorite. But apples are starting to appear in the farmer’s markets.


3 posted on 09/14/2016 4:34:42 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: Jamestown1630

Bookmark


4 posted on 09/14/2016 4:36:07 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Jamestown1630

Apple Brown Betty?? Baked apple with brown sugar and stuff?


5 posted on 09/14/2016 4:38:39 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: SkyDancer

I love baked apples!


6 posted on 09/14/2016 4:39:46 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630
Use only firm apples with no evidence of rot to press for cider or juice. Penicillium expansum causes soft rot of apples and produces a mycotoxin called "patulin" and is found in juiced apples that have soft rot. Depending upon how many "bad apples" are used, the juice may have an off taste and could be harmful. Just a fungus for my thought.
7 posted on 09/14/2016 4:42:12 PM PDT by Fungi (Bread, you want bread? Have your bread and all the fungi that come with it!)
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To: Jamestown1630

That picture of apples with cinnamon looks great also. A bit of brandy or some other adult beverage in there? Hard apple cider I bet. :)


8 posted on 09/14/2016 4:43:30 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Fungi

LOL! Now you’ve excited my eternal fear of poisoning people with my canning ;-)

I will be careful, and intrepid!


9 posted on 09/14/2016 4:44:21 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: SkyDancer

I hadn’t thought of anything but Cider - but some apple-y adult beverage would be very fine on a chilly Autumn evening, beside your first fire of the season ;-)


10 posted on 09/14/2016 4:47:09 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

“Intrepid” in thinking of whom you could off? :)


11 posted on 09/14/2016 4:47:17 PM PDT by Fungi (Bread, you want bread? Have your bread and all the fungi that come with it!)
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To: Jamestown1630

Is canning tomatoes a cooking or garden topic? LOL

Somebody here said they did it with salt (some say lemon juice).

I would be a first-time canner with no pressure devices; counting on the cooling of the hot liquid to vacuum-seal.

It can’t be that difficult; folks were doing this in the 1930’s and before.

All advice appreciated. I won’t have a lot but want to try if I am able.


12 posted on 09/14/2016 4:53:50 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Fungi

Intrepid in terms of overcoming my fears. When I was a young starting-out cook and a relative gave me my first avocado to cut, I asked, “What’s the proper approach to an avocado?”

She said, ‘Full Speed Ahead!”

-JT


13 posted on 09/14/2016 4:58:31 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: SkyDancer

Pork Chops with Apple Towers.

Brown the 1” chops on both sides. Place each on a baking dish on top of a 1/4 cup mound of cinnamon apple sauce. On top of each chop place a cored apple pre-prepared with cored out area filled with brown sugar and raisins. Sprinkle with some ground cloves. Bake at 375 for about 40 minutes. Temp probe the chops for internal temp the first couple of times. Tent with foil during cooking.


14 posted on 09/14/2016 4:59:18 PM PDT by KC Burke (Consider all of my posts as first drafts. (Apologies to L. Niven))
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To: Jamestown1630

I bought a bag of apples at the farmers’ market today. Can’t wait to see all the recipes :-).


15 posted on 09/14/2016 5:05:08 PM PDT by NorthstarMom (God says debt is a curse and children are a blessing, yet we apply for loans and prevent pregnancy.)
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To: SaveFerris

If you haven’t done much canning - I have done very little, myself - I would suggest the Ball Canning website, full of information:

http://www.freshpreserving.com/canning-101-getting-started.html

There’s also ‘The Bible’:

http://www.freshpreserving.com/ball-blue-book—guide-to-preserving-%2837th-edition%29-1034026VM.html#q=blue%2Bbook&start=1


16 posted on 09/14/2016 5:06:18 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: SkyDancer

I’ve been a teetotaler most of my adult life; I started waitressing a year ago and sometimes fill in as bartender. Some of those drinks look so good that I’m changing my ways. Your suggestion of brandy with hot apple cider almost has me looking forward to cooler temps. Almost...this is Minnesota after all and winter is long and brutal!


17 posted on 09/14/2016 5:09:07 PM PDT by NorthstarMom (God says debt is a curse and children are a blessing, yet we apply for loans and prevent pregnancy.)
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To: Fungi

It’s theorized that the symptoms of mycotoxin ingestion in rye lead to the Salem Witch Trials in 1692.

It’s also been thought to cause the outbreak in Middle Ages the disease was known as “St. Anthony’s fire,”. Heck, It’s been traced backed to causing major problems since the ancient Greeks.

I think your post is a really good heads up. Fungus among us should be avoided! Thanks!

Fungis are a whole nother story!!!


18 posted on 09/14/2016 5:13:31 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: Jamestown1630

Used to be able to get this great hard apple cider but stores quit carrying it. Closest thing to it I’ve found is Jack Daniels Honey liquor which is a mild form of Yukon Jack.


19 posted on 09/14/2016 5:14:58 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: KC Burke

Got it. Printed and pasted to a file card. TNX!!!


20 posted on 09/14/2016 5:15:29 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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