When I was little, we had 4 apple trees in the yard. OMG how many yellow jacket stings did I get as a kid? lol....
Mom would freeze some, she'd peel them and save the peelings, she'd drop the peeled apple sections into a dishpan filled with salt water to keep the pieces from discoloring. She'd freeze the apple sections in those little boxes...remember those? lol....
Then, she used the peelings to make apple jelly.
Some of the apples, she'd cut into thin pieces and lay onto ... WINDOW SCREENS covered with cheesecloth that she laid across sawhorses. She'd leave them outside during the day, then she and daddy would move them into the garage at night, and put them back out in the morning. When the apples were dry, she'd bag them up.
Those dried apples, she'd cook up with sugar and cinnamon and make filling for ... fried apple pies.
Oh...yum....
And for any of you lucky enough to be within driving distance of North Georgia....
http://www.georgiaapplefestival.org/
You can get hot fried apple pies at several of the "apple houses" on that list.
eta: this is a link that some of you might enjoy....especially if you are in Georgia:
http://agr.georgia.gov/00/article/0,2086,38902732_39654299_40311428,00.html
edited again to make sure you guys see this page:
http://www.agr.state.ga.us/mbads/Ads.aspx?CategoryID=460
That's the "things to eat" section. Black walnut meats...dried apples....fig preserves....muscadines and scuppernongs....punkins....