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Fresh apples?
Sep 22nd, 2006 at 11:20pm
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Someone told me how to keep apples fresh by putting them in a baggie (sliced) and adding water and salt and then freezing them. The salt stays in the water not in the apples and will keep them from turning brown.
Has anyone tried this canoing?
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Reply #1 - Sep 23rd, 2006 at 11:52am
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No, I'll generally take dried apples.

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Reply #2 - Sep 23rd, 2006 at 4:45pm
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I have heard that lemon juice works for this but I have never heard about the salt.  Mc donalds serves apples in a bag now and they are always fresh looking... who knows what they put in those to keep them from going brown  Shocked
  
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Reply #3 - Sep 23rd, 2006 at 9:51pm
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I have to ask but what are dried apples? Are they what comes with the other fruit and stuff in a bag? I guess I really dont know.
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Reply #4 - Sep 24th, 2006 at 5:55am
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dried apples are like any other dried fruit.  They can be purchased at most grocery stores and certainly at places like Whole Foods or Trader Joe's.  We get ours at the local health food store, as they usually contain fewer additives.  They are often in fruit mixtures, but they can be bought by themselves.  They aren't crisp like a fresh apple, but then I can't imagine that an apple that had been frozen would be crisp either.
  
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Reply #5 - Sep 24th, 2006 at 6:39pm
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I've got a number of apple trees and usually have much too much fruit in the fall.  I use a lot of the apples fresh but I have found that if you slice the apples and bag them in freezer bags with sugar and lime juice that they stay crisp in the freezer and are ready for pies just by defrosing them, I don't know if it makes a difference but I don't peel my apples.  I dehydrate a lot of apples and store the dehydrated apples for snacking, I don't like them in baked goods.
  
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Reply #6 - Sep 25th, 2006 at 2:02am
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Having Fresh Apples is worth the wt. Especially the new Honeycrisp from good ol MN. If you havent had one, once you have one you would think it a Federa offense to dry them.

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Reply #7 - Sep 25th, 2006 at 2:20am
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Totally agree!   Smiley  We can get Honeycrisp in Michigan now and it is heavenly!  I have never in my life been excited about eating an apple until now!
  
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Reply #8 - Sep 25th, 2006 at 1:11pm
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I live in La Crescent, the Apple Capital of Minnesota.  We have many orchard stores selling a huge variety of the freshest, crispest apples ever!!!  And, Yes, we have Honeycrisp!  That is one of my favorites.  I just bought a 10# bag on Friday.

I take a few fresh apples with me on canoe trips. They need no refrigeration ... at least not for several days.  I would not slice them or freeze them for a trip.  Perhaps dry them.

If you're freezing for home use, as in for pies or apple crisp, etc., then you need to blanch them.
  
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Reply #9 - Jan 6th, 2007 at 2:44am
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The Honey Crisp is bred specifically for winter hardiness, so it can survive in the Northern tier and Canada.  I like Stayman variety out this way.  Whatever happened to Jonathans? I haven't seen them for a while.

But, I won't lug fresh apples knowingly on canoe trips.  We once had a Aitikokan outfitter supply and pack our gear and food for a scout troop.  Although we selected our choice of meals, and one choice was called "shore lunch" to be use with our fish catch.  We didn't realize until the end of the trip that we were lugging sacks of potatoes, onions and apples over grueling portages the entire trip.  But, we fried up the potatoes and onions and they were the best tasting item we'd seen in days.  Although I love crisp, cool apples; the apples from the trip didn't fair too well in mid summer.  I prefer the dried variety fruit on canoe trips.
  
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