best method to preserve crab apples

[maddog]

I have a couple of bushels of small (1.5" diameter) crab apples that I want to preserve. I will use them later to add some character/tannin to my apple wines made from desert apples or concentrate. Should I freeze them, can them, or make a 100% crab apple wine that I could blend into regular batches later?

 

[Kleftiwallah]

Storage of crabbies.

A cardboard box in a cool garage is about right, but if you have room in a freezer bang 'em in there as on the de- freezing the juice extraction will be easier. Lurve the reference to a bushel. Cheers, Tony.

 

[djrockinsteve]

Freeze them in zip lock bags. Bring them out later cut in half and remove some seeds. Add absorbic acid to prevent oxidation. Once thawed up add pectic enzyme then a day later add your yeast.