What To Do With Sour Apples? + Recipe for Magic Apple Dessert

It may occur to you that the soulful experience I had with the apples was less than practical. It occurred to me when I brought them back to my kitchen, and they tasted sour next to all of the cultivated, sweeter varieties of food. They were certainly not dessert, nor were they savory enough to put into our dinner (though I might have tried if I had been cooking alone). The question seeks to be answered, what to do with sour apples?

Magic Apple Dessert
Magic Apple Dessert (made with wild sour apples)

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Soul Apples

By Nicholas Tippins

Though the gravel road is missing its population of cars, I can see life and movement spinning all around it. Trees bend and ache with the wind, flowers spire to the sun and awaken their brilliance. Ghosts of travelers walk this way with me, knowing I, too, search for something that they missed finding in their whole life’s wandering.

Magic Forest Road

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