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My mum always said to me that if I ate apple pips I'd have apple trees growing outta me 'ead!!

Well I can tell you now it ain't true!!

I've got a load of apples to freeze, I'll peel, core and cut into slices putting them into a bowl of water with some lemon juice then I'll blanch them and freeze them. I will make some apple sauce too and freeze that.

I've got a bit behind today, I was meant to be making a load of quiches for freezing, which I did but I never got to start making Ragu sauces from the glut of tomatoes I have!

Ah well tomorrow is another day!

Gidday

Well I was about to say a loada crap about the cyanide but when I look I found this:-
http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/apples.asp

But I haven't wasted an apple pip for about 20 years now and last time I look, I was actually still alive. I think anyway.

Actually, I read about 20 years ago how American Folk Medicine says that apple pips contained good quantities of potasium and were very good for you. It also say that if you eat the apple from the end, you can eat the cor and all and waste nothing and that is what I have been doing ever since. So when I cook apples nothing is thrown away.

We've been drying apples for about 15 years now. This is how we do it.

Buy an apple corer/peeler/slicer. It's the hand crank model that you spear the apple to on one end.

Fill a 1-qt. bowl 3/4 the way with water. Add 2 T. lemon juice. After you've sliced your apples, drop them in the water for a couple of minutes. Place the slices on a kitchen towel to drain briefly and then put them on th dehydrator trays. Dehydrate at 135F for about 8 hours. We dry 10 trays of apples at a time.

If you want them to be really tasty and don't mind the sugar, mix up sugar (3 parts) and cinnamon (1 part) and sprinkle on slices before drying. Delicious! My children call this apple candy and it's not too sweet.

We prefer Yellow Delicious or Jonathan varieties for drying.

Sounds nice!