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:
- Picked a bunch of crabapples and them in warm water.
- Set a large pot of boiling water on the stove.
- 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.
- Took some small mason jars and stuffed them full of crabapples.
- 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.
- Let the crabapple-and-sugar-water-filled jars sit in the boiling water for a while.
- 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!
