Billets from apples

Apples are a valuable food and dietary product. This is known since ancient times. They were used in the liver, which contributed to better digestion, increased bile secretion, edema reduction, hemopoiesis improvement, and also in the treatment of gout, sclerosis and other diseases. Therefore, always made blanks from apples for the winter.

It has long been thought that if you eat one apple a day, you will not need the help of a doctor. From the old folk medicine it is known that these fruits are recommended in the treatment of hypertension. Pectin contained in them, promotes the removal of toxic substances and slags from the body, including heavy metals (lead, cobalt, nickel).

Apple diets are recommended by doctors for the treatment of obesity and other diseases. Since this product is not always possible to keep fresh until the new season, especially with large yields, the harvest for apples from winter helps to rationally manage the fruits, make the ration of the family more varied, and sometimes make it easier to prepare original dishes, significantly shortening the cooking time .

Recipe 1

Wet apples are desirable to have on each table during the winter and early spring. Moisture is a convenient way to prolong product preservation while improving its taste. Such billets from apples should be stored in small oak barrels (up to 50 kg). Ingredients:

For urination:

• Apples, sorted by size (suitable for small or medium fruits) in the amount necessary to fill the barrel;
• Fresh, clean straw, rye or wheat for laying on the bottom of the tub, between the layers and on top of them;
• 800 g of a grout solution for 1 kg of apples.

For 10 liters of grout:

• 9.5 liters of spring water;
• Malt wort;
• 150 g of salt;
• 450 g of honey or 230 g of white sugar;
• 120 g of mustard dry.

For malt wort:

• 100 g of malt (sprouted and podshennye barley seeds);
• 1 liter of water.

Malt wort is prepared. Malt is poured into water and boiled for 15 minutes, cooled and aged for a day, then filtered and 100 g of the obtained wort are used.

Prepare the fill. All ingredients are dissolved in water. If honey is used instead of sugar, then the product is more delicious and fragrant.

At the bottom of the kadushki, lined with straw, spread a row of apples (upward stems). Each layer is permeated with straw, and the top layer is also covered with straw. Press down with a wooden mug with a load, fill the prepared fill so that the fruits are completely covered. The barrel is closed with a lid and held for 5 days at a temperature of 15 ° C for preliminary fermentation. Since apples absorb a lot of liquid, in the first 4 days it is necessary to add cold water to the barrel so that its level is higher by 3-4 cm of the wooden mug. After the end of fermentation, thoroughly wash the foam from the mug, stop the barrel and put it in the basement. Storage temperature from 2 to 12 ° C. After a month, the product is ready for use.

Recipe 2

An easier way to make large billets from apples. They will also be wet, but the process is much easier. Ingredients:

For urination:

• 1 bucket of apples;
• 7 liters of brine.

For 10 liters of brine:

• 10 liters of clean water;
• 2 cups of honey;
• 100 g of salt.

Any method of billet from apples requires their preliminary sorting. Fruit is discarded damaged, damaged by pests and spotted. Then they are washed, laid, and at this time a brine is prepared. Add honey and salt to the water, boil for 30 minutes. The brine is cooled and poured into them apples.

Recipe 3

Make billets from apples by drying. For these purposes, use early varieties and a dropper. All the fruits are washed, cut the damaged parts, remove the core, cut into circles. Before drying, so they do not lose their natural color (not darkened), they blanch a minute in boiling water. Lay out on a mesh of stainless steel and podvyalivayut in the oven at 65 oC. Then thread on threads and hang out in the sun.