Late apple harvest

I’ve always looked on the bright side.

I mean, so what if we’re all going to perish in the downward spiral of climate change, at least we’ll be eating some yummy apples and pie along the way.

So, I just harvested my last apples, yep, I did. They were still hanging on the tree in January so I picked them off. I thought they were going to be pithy and dry and tasting of cardboard.

I have large hands, so that is one big puppy.

But they weren’t, they were crispy and juicy and as big as grapefruit. 

I planted the tree 2 ½ years ago at my mom’s house. I bought it bare root—one of those 5-in-1 grafted multivariety trees.

Here’s the first apple pie I made from the last harvest of these incredible apples. I’ll be making the next one tomorrow.

That apple pie is gone now of course, it lasted about 12 1/2 minutes.

This is my recipe for Apple Pie filling:

Peeled and sliced apples, enough to mound up in a pie plate.

(I’m not good at measurement stuff)

½ cup brown sugar

3 tbsp flour

1 tsp. cinnamon (I don’t like cinnamon in apple pies very much)

½ tsp cardamom (I like the combo of these two spices)

Toss the ingredients together.

Throw into a Trader Joe’s piecrust and bake for 425 for 8 min.

Reduce to 325 for at least 1 hour.

Make sure the pie is bubbly when you take it out of oven.

 

Let cool out of reach of pet dogs.

Do you want the rest of that?