Mudcat wins hands down. One answer in 5 mins, and 6 in less than six hours.
I asked on 3 other forums (forii?), no answer yet on 2 of them, on another, whose sole purpose is to answer people's questions it took almost 6 hours to get 1 answer, another 2, 2 hours later.
the answer bank gives some interesting recipes, I can see I shall be busy experimenting till all the apples are used up (or have been given away or gone bad and been thrown out)