What else can I do with crabapples?

Ha, Ha! Nelliemoser, just seen your post. My husband keeps a pile of (small) stones beside the back door, to throw at cats using our garden. Ile replace them(the stones) with crab apples! in future.DH is grinning when I tell him this.

Just made crab apple and blackberry jelly, looks good so far!
I think Rowantree is spot on, they can be added to most fruits to make a lovely jelly.

Last year I found a recipe for pickling them. Worked well and made a lovely coloured pickle to eat with cold meat or cheese. If you can't find anything online, PM me and I will do my best to hunt through all my random pile of recipes from magazines and try and find it. Our crab apples will be ripe soon, so I need to get my act together.

If they are John Downie crabs you can actually eat them raw - if you don't mind them a bit tart (we like them!) We use them too in hedgerow jam, made with elderberries, sloes, blackberries, rowanberries and hawthorn berries. I am planning to make Sloe and Crab Apple Jelly this year, and Rowanberry and Crab Apple Jelly. Hedgerow fruit jellies look beautiful and make great little presents at Christmas - or before

Throw them at neighbours cats crapping in your garden?

Varnish them and sell them as juggling sets!

We leave them on the tree and revel in the birds that are attracted to the fruit.

Crabapples are a bit small for chutney . Like Mamie I make herb jellies, rosemary, sage and mint in my case. I also add blackberries to make bramble jelly, delicious on ice cream or as a hot pouring sauce.

Apple chutney is great.

A quick google gives recipes for slow roasting them and for chutney.

I use it as a base for mint, rosemary or tarragon jelly too.

Wine?