Crabapple Pickles

[Chholing Taha]

My wonderful organic Crabapple Tree did a good job this year.
I cooked up a batch of crabapple pickles for this first time, YUM!

Here's the formula:

SPICED CRABAPPLES
1 1/2 qt. crabapples with stems
1 qt. vinegar
4 c. sugar
2 sticks cinnamon
1 tbsp. whole cloves
1 tsp. mace
1 tsp. allspice
Choose round crabapples, uniform in size. Wash and drain. Do not peel. Mix sugar and vinegar; add spice bag; bring to a boil. Add crabapples and heat slowly, being careful not to burst the fruit. Let stand in syrup overnight. Pack cold, leaving 1/2 inch head space. Cover with boiling hot syrup. Adjust lids. Process in boiling water bath for 5 minutes.

One word of advice: do not over cook the fruit, heat them slowly so they don't explode open.

[Laurie]

Got on the band wagon and just pickled the last of my green tomatoes. Spicy pickles green tomatoes. Like these lots better that friend green tomatoes... Those don;t seemd to do it for me all I taste is the fry.

[Chholing Taha]

Not sure. I'll try to find the source. I bought it from a 100% organic fruit tree nursery in California along with my two dwarf winesap apple trees :)

[Laurie]

Yumm... This inspires me to plant a crabapple in the yard. What variety do you have?