I'm old, but I seem to remember my mother washing the apples, peeling and coring them, making applesauce from those good Gravensteins, then cooking the peelings and cores to make juice for jelly. Is that possible? She would combine apple juice with other fruit juices to use the apple pectin rather than store bought. BTW, the old Gravenstein is still alive and well, over 100 years old now! I live in SW Oregon, where blackberries grow wild and there is a Blackberry Festival in Coos Bay every year. Yum!
I'm old, but I seem to remember my mother washing the apples, peeling and coring them, making applesauce from those good Gravensteins, then cooking the peelings and cores to make juice for jelly. Is that possible? She would combine apple juice with other fruit juices to use the apple pectin rather than store bought. BTW, the old Gravenstein is still alive and well, over 100 years old now! I live in SW Oregon, where blackberries grow wild and there is a Blackberry Festival in Coos Bay every year. Yum!