This is a good guide:
http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-store-apples-for-the-wi-68778
I would get some close friends together and bake apple pies to give to some shelter.
I’m sure they would appreciate it.
I would just get some close friends together and drink that “gone bad” cider. But that’s just me.
Use up some of the excess applesauce to make oatmeal breakfast bars/muffins.
Thank you all so much for the suggestions. I had to avoid reading this thread until I had a real meal because it kept making me hungry!
I didn’t know apples stored for so long. I’m going to make a few of these and store the rest for a Friendsgiving.
I buy my apples from a vendor at a local food market, and he stores them in special coolers all winter long. He continues swelling the previous year’s apples throughout the summer. And they taste fresh.
I can applesauce and dry apples. I also store some by wrapping individual apples in newspaper and putting them in a box in a cool corner of the basement. Certain varieties store better than others. It’s important that apples don’t touch if you are trying to keep a quantity - one bad apple WILL spoil the whole bunch!
The key to making applesauce in quantity is getting an apple peeler, corer, slicer https://www.pamperedchef.com/search-browse-results?searchText=Apple+Peeler+Corer+Slicer&GlobalHeaderSearch=GlobalHeaderSearch&itemType=TPCProduct&categoryType=Product&secondaryCategoryType=Recipe&userSelection=false or at least an apple peeler. Last year I invested in a dehydrator and a strainer. Strainer: http://www.amazon.com/VICTORIO-VKP250-Strainer-Sauce-Maker/dp/B001I7FP54 Both products made my life so much easier. I love to snack on dried apples at night. Just Sunday I made a huge container of applesauce and dried slices of apple at the same time. I can smooth applesauce made with the strainer and chunky applesauce that I do with just the peeler and this: http://www.amazon.com/stainless-B-Chef-Dishwasher-accessory-compliment/dp/B0127TK22W/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_1?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1447165573&sr=1-1-fkmr2&keywords=apple+sectioner%2C+8+slices
When we were young, my mother bought apples by the crate from the Apple man (we had many vendors come to our door - a bread man, egg man, of course a milk man) . We kept the crate in the garage and we all took one walking out of the house and usually on the way in. In the fall and winter, it was cold in the garage and the apples stayed just fine.
A friend had an apple tree in their yard. Little apples. He mad apple butter and apple sauce, and gave the jars as gifts. It was great.
@twoinanddone
Your post reminded me of my childhood. Growing up we lived in the house at the end of the court with the big backyard. We had all sorts of fruits and vegetables growing in our yard. So many tomatoes, and other fruits and vegetables. We used to give so much to our neighbors. When we put that house up for sale our neighbors asked, “No garden this year?” Of course the birds and the squirrels loved the garden.