If you are a novice summer residents and this year you have managed to collect a bountiful harvest of apples, most likely in front of you the question arises, how to prepare them for the winter. Recipes blanks affect its abundance. Of aromatic mineral fruit can be cooked sweets, fruit, and even alcoholic beverages. For more details, you can learn from this publication.
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What apples "survive" until spring
Most of the fruit, you can send for storage in the cellar or basement. But of the remaining workpiece can be different. Before you start processing the crop, you need to find out which apples can be stored until spring.
1. dried apples
Dried apples - a source of vitamins and minerals. After the apples pass all the stages of drying, they can be eaten without exposing the preliminary preparation. Dried fruit produced useful delicious compotes and desserts.
If you are interested in this method of harvesting apples for the winter, we hasten to please you: you can dry all their varieties. Moreover, you can use it even damaged items, only need to clear them from the defects and send out to dry.
Drying can be carried out in different ways:
- on open air;
- in electric dryers;
- in electric and gas ovens.
Tip! To dried to give a light, without a hint of "rust", sliced fresh fruit need not soak in a brine solution. Dissolve in 1 liter of water for 1 hour. l. salt, pour the fruit composition and leave a few minutes. For storage of dried fruit ideal glass containers or dense paper bags. If Procurement of raw materials was carried out according to the rules, dried apples can be stored for about a year.
2. pickled apples
For urinating in contrast to drying, it does not fit every apple variety. Preference is given to fall and rannezimnim varieties. We are talking about ordinary Antonovka, anise Kuban, Calvillo snow, and so on. Unacceptable to use for harvesting fruits from defect and symptoms of diseases. apples urinating does not imply any difficulty.
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Consider the most simple recipe:
- Place a 3-liter jars leaves of black currant and cherry. Lay the apples on top of them. The layers need to be alternated.
- Pour brine, cover with gauze and leave at room temperature for several days. During this time, the apples should begin to ferment.
- Once the foam appeared precipitates, close packagings kapron lids and put in a cold place. Feast on pickled apples you can in 2 months.
To make the brine, you will need:
- 5 l water;
- 200 g of sugar;
- 1 tbsp salt;
You can experiment with recipes and apples complement the wide range of spices or additives in the form of honey, cranberries, rye flour.
3, 4, 5. Puree, jam and marmalade
Applesauce - tasty and healthy product, which ranks first among the feeding of infants. To prepare the sauce will require:
- 2 kg of apples;
- sugar 1 cup.
Prepare mashed potatoes according to the following scheme:
- Remove the rind of the fruit and clean them from the core. Pour the fruit with water so that they vershinki were not covered. Place a container on fire, bring to the boil and cook for 5-8 minutes.
- After seethe apples, discard them in a colander.
- After the water is drained, re-place the apples in a saucepan, add to them the sugar and boil for 5 minutes, stirring from time to time. Adjust the density puree you can use apple cider broth which you previously decant through a colander.
- Hot sauce lay on the sterilized jars. Roll up them, turn the container and wrap them to cool. 2 kg of fruit you get 1.5 liters of mash. If you cook puree for baby food, you can not add to it sugar. In this case, it will have to be pasteurized.
Jam
To get the apple butter, you need to boil down until the sauce until it thickens. Keep in mind that the finished jam happens twice less than the original amount of mashed potatoes. If the jam has been prepared according to the rules, it will be stored without pressurization. It is important that the sugar in it was at least 60-65%. For the preparation of jams, you will need:
- 1 kg of fresh peeled apples;
- 0.5 kg of sugar.
Prepare jam, as follows:
- Wipe the apples using a blender, add the sugar and boiled over medium heat for 15-60 minutes. The exact time depends on what kind of thickness you want to achieve.
- Place the cooked jam into warm jars and roll them. Turn on the container lid and wrap.
For apple jam can fit puree or fruit, baked in the oven.
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Marmalade - useful sweetness that it is safe to give baby. Was prepared in the same way as their jam. 1 kg of raw material required 0.5 kg sugar. The more sugar - the thicker marmalade.
The water in which cooked apples, lower pouch peel and apple "cores of" seeds. The thing is that they contain large amounts of pectin - a natural thickener. After cooking, the bag must be removed, wipe the fruit, add sugar and boil down puree to the desired thickness.
Marmalade can be soft and dense consistency. If you want to prepare a sheet marmalade, to shift it into a flat shape and dry in the air or in the oven at 50 ° C in about 1-1.5 hours. 6 and 7.
6, 7. Preserves and jams
Apple jam - another sweetness that pleases us in the winter. Cooking can be for a variety of recipes. We offer you to get acquainted with one of them.
Recipe for apple jam with walnuts and spices
Prepare:
- Apples - 1 kg;
- walnuts peeled nuts -150 g;
- lemon 1 pcs .;
- 180 g of sugar;
- bay leaf - 2 sheets;
- black pepper - 3 pieces.
Prepare the jam as follows:
- Cut the apples into small pieces, cover with water, add the lemon juice and a couple of slices of lemon, sugar, bay leaf. Simmer over medium heat. Stir the components is not necessary.
- Add the bay leaf and puree nuts. Boil for 15 minutes. If you wish, add peas pepper jam.
Jam
Jam prepared in exactly as jam. Boil it should be up to the moment until the syrup will not get a jelly-like consistency. The classic recipe for cooking jam is present 65% sugar. Such a product may be stored without problem for a prolonged period.
8. apple compote
Apples are the most commonly used components for the preparation of stewed fruit.
Prepare the compote in the winter can be a variety of ways:
Method 1. Boil for 2-3 minutes apple slices in boiling syrup. Place them into sterilized jars, pour the hot liquid. On the 3-liter jar need 1-1.5 cups of sugar.
Method 2. Place the apples in the banks. You can chop them to pieces, cut in half or leave whole form. Pour boiling water for 5-8 minutes. Drain the water in a pot, add sugar to a boil, fill into jars and roll up.
You can not make a double, and triple hot fill. In a 3-liter jar leaves 200-300 g of sugar.
Method 3. Place in a glass container apples, pour hot water and pasteurized at 85 ° C: 1 liter jars for 15 minutes, 3-liter 30 minutes.
To make the compote distinctive taste, you can enrich it with a black or red currant, cherry, lemon, cloves and cinnamon. What supplements you choose depends on your taste preferences.
9. Apple juice
If you have such a kitchen appliance as juicer, preparation of apple juice is not difficult. Squeeze the juice, add sugar (to 1 liter of juice, 2 tbsp. l. Sahara). Boil water and immediately pour it into the prepared containers. Roll up the bottle or jar and place it under wraps. beverage shelf-life of about 2 years.
10. Apple vinegar
Apple cider vinegar - a useful product, which is widely used for culinary, medicinal and cosmetic purposes. In its structure contains vital minerals and vitamins. If you have gathered a good harvest apples, do not be lazy and cook from them the elixir of youth and health.
Recipe for apple cider vinegar
Prepare:
- Apples - 0.8 kg;
- water - 1 liter;
- sugar (honey) - 100 g;
- fresh yeast - 10 g (dry rye bread or 20 g)
Preparation:
- Chop the apples on a coarse grater, add to it the water, sugar and yeast. Leave the mixture in an open vessel at a temperature 20-30ºS. Occasionally stir her wooden spoon.
- Strain mixture by adding thereto honey or sugar (50 g per 1 liter of juice). Place the container in a warm place for 40-60 days. Be sure to cover the jar with cheesecloth.
- Filter the liquid and store in refrigerator. 11 and 12.
11, 12. Infusion and infusion
Assembled apple harvest can be used in different ways. Of fragrant fruit can be cooked not only sweets and fruit drinks, but also alcoholic beverages. If desired, they may be added to alcohol.
For liqueurs ideal sour apples.
Recipe for homemade apple brandy
Prepare:
- Apples - 2.5 kg;
- sugar - 2 kg;
- vodka - 0.5 l;
- -8 liters water.
Preparation:
- Place in a container made of glass pieces of fruit, cover with water and vodka. Put in a warm place for 14 days.
- If by the end of the second week all segments reached the top, you have to strain fermented liquid through cheesecloth, add sugar and again put in a warm place for 2 hours.
- Further, transfer container in a cold place for 10-12 days, bottling, zakuporte them to stand in the cold for 30 days.
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- A sign that the apple jam ready - clear fruit and syrup on plenochka.
- Apple jam ready if hot drop immediately thickens on a cold surface.
- To find out whether the jam is ready, you need to take a wooden spatula, hold it on the bottom of the pan. The emergence of "track", which immediately filled by mass, will say that sweetness is ready.
- If the recipe jam or puree does not include sugar, blanks have compulsory sterilization procedure.
- To prepare compote suitable sour-sweet apples, for alcoholic drinks - sour, for apple cider vinegar - sweet. For urinating better to use the apples sweet varieties.
As you can see, from apples can be prepared a variety of delicious and useful piece. On this list does not end there. Of fragrant fruits get candy, jam, jelly, candied fruit. We have shared with you tested recipes blanks, you only harvest is left to be patient and get to work.
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