In our garden we have two rather large and old crab apple trees - there are many different kinds of crab apple trees, and the two trees we have are different too, one tree has dark pink flowers and very tiny dark red crab apples (these apples are the most sour - they are almost unedible when uncooked), and the other tree has white flowers and yellow crab apples with red cheeks. In Danish crab apples are called paradisæbler, which can be translated into apples from Paradise.
The apples are very small and measure about 1 to 3 cm in diameter when they are ripe - and like mentioned above they are incredibly sour - but with a little bit of work and a little bit of love, they can be turned into the most delicious sweet and sour grab apple jelly.
In the previous years these two trees haven't really yielded that much, but due to the very hot and very long summer there's now an abundance of crab apples.
If you want to make jelly from the crab apples you need to pick them just before they are ripe, so my husband picked them all yesterday - and after sorting them and weighing we ended up with a total of 27.4 kilos... which is way more than the usual 3-5 kilos ... so... I guess I know what I/we will be doing the next few day... cleaning, sorting, cooking crab apples and making delicious jelly...
