What can you cook from apples? Canned and soaked apples

Do not know what else can surprise your family? Cook the soaked apples. However, in this case, in order to present them a surprise, you will definitely need a certain amount of time, which will leave not even the preparation, but the soaking of the fruit.

Boiled apples

First of all, you need to decide on what,what kind of apples do you want to soak. Immediately I want to note that for cooking apples on this recipe, you need to choose the latest of their varieties. An excellent choice will be such as antonovka, pepin, anise or titovka. During cooking it is important not to forget about the primary processing of apples - they must be washed under running water. If you want the cooked apples apples to be delicious, then note that you can not soak poor-quality or, worse, rotten fruits.

The soaking process must be carried out inenamelware - for this purpose, a pot or bucket is perfect. A good option is also a wooden barrel. In any case, stock up a lot of cherry and black currant leaves - they will need just enough to cover the bottom of your chosen vessel. In addition, they will also go on to interleave. Once you lay the leaves on the bottom, put the first layer of apples. After it should be covered with cherry and currant leaves. So alternate layers of apples and leaves. As soon as you reach the top of the chosen dishes, cover the apples with leaves and pour the entire mass with a brine, which, following our recommendations, will be very easy to prepare, however, more about this later. And at the moment you need to cover the barrel (or bucket - depending on what you are preparing the soaked apples) with a napkin and place under the press.

And now a few words about how to cookbrine for apples. He prepares very quickly and is not at all cunning. It will require water, the volume of which should be exactly half as much as the volume of apples. Once you have prepared the purified water, you should add salt to it. Salt should be taken from the calculation of 1 teaspoon per 2 liters of water.

When you have covered apples with oppression, you needput them in a cool place - there they will acquire the necessary flavor and aroma. When will the washed apples be ready? Not soon…. Not very soon - this should take a little more than a month.

Canned Apples

And here's another recipe for how to cook apples in such a way that the dish is a real surprise for the household. Following this recipe, you can cook very tasty apples for the winter.

First, select only the best fruits. Remember that if you get at least one slightly rotten fruit, then it will ruin the taste of the entire contents of the can. All ingredients are designed for 2.5 kilograms of apples. Before cooking, they must be washed and dried using a towel. Since at this stage of the preparation you need to remove the core from the apples, then for convenience, you can cut them into slices or in half.

Now start preparing the syrup forblanks. It is prepared from 2 liters of purified water - it must be put on a plate in order to make it boil. At the moment of boiling, add 0.5 kg of sugar and a teaspoon of citric acid. In such a composition, the mass should barely budge - about two minutes. After that, you need to catch apples from the syrup and arrange them according to the jars you prepared beforehand for preservation. In the meantime, you can not turn off the stove - let the syrup boil. As soon as this happens, you can pour it on cans with apples so that it fills the container up to the neck. Roll the jars under the iron lid and, as soon as they cool, take them to the basement before winter comes.