We’ve had one of the driest summers ever where I live, and my crabapple tree suffered for it.  I managed to only scrounge about 1.5 L of the tiny fruit today which I decided to preserve.  I have no idea if I did this right, so we’ll see what happens in a few months time.

Here’s what I did:

1. Picked a bunch of crabapples and them in warm water.
2. Set a large pot of boiling water on the stove.
3. Set a smaller pot of boiling water on the stove, adding as much sugar to it as possible.  I would add a bunch of sugar, stir it until it dissolved, then repeat.
4. Took some small mason jars and stuffed them full of crabapples.
5. Put a crabapple-filled jar into the large pot of boiling water, then fill the jar to the top with the sugar-water from the smaller pot.  Repeated for all jars.
6. Let the crabapple-and-sugar-water-filled jars sit in the boiling water for a while.
7. Sealed up the jars and placed them on the counter to cool off.

The result:

I’m hoping the apples will soak up the sugars and sweeten to delicious treats.  We’ll see what happens!