Ugly Apples

About ten years ago I bought an apple tree to plant here on the farm. It was suppose to be a Golden Delicious. If it is a Golden Delicious, I am badly mistaken. They are the ugliest apples I have ever seen, so I call it the Ugly Apple tree. 

This year I have an abundance of Ugly Apples. They taste pretty good and you can also bake them. Rather than letting them go to waste, I am giving them away and also trying to find different ways to use them. Today I going to try to air dry them in the oven.  Maybe some apple jacks later. 

I found this apple peeler/corer in the pantry and decided to give a try for the first time. I have seen these contraptions before but have never used one.  Let me say now that they really do work well. You can peel and core an apple in less than 20 seconds. When the apple is peeled it is also spliced and ready for cooking, drying, etc. 

That is all there is to it. I was surprised how easy it was. 

I put the apple rings on parchment paper and put them in the convection oven at the lowest setting, 175 degrees.   It took about six hours to dry the apples. I'll let you know how the applejacks turn out.