Traditional Russian recipe for soaked apples at home

The washed apples, the recipe with the photos of which we will consider in our article, is an undeservedly forgotten snack, which few of the owners harvested for the winter. Try to make them once, and this home salting will forever go down in the number of your most loved ones. If a large crop of juicy fruit has ripened in the garden area or you bought a pair of Antonovka bakery or white fillings on the market, it's time to base our recipe for wet apples at home so that in the winter you can have a fine, slightly sour snack for meat or simply So. For cooking, you will need the fruits of sour or sweet and sour varieties, dense, without dents and other flaws.

A simple recipe for wet apples at home

For cooking, you can use a barrel or a wooden tub, and if you do not have them, just take a few 3 liter cans. You need 6 kilograms of apples:

• 200 g of granulated sugar;
• 50 g of table salt;
• Leaves of black currant or cherry.

The bottom of the tub or dishes, where you are going to wet apples, lay out the leaves of black currant and cherry, from above densely put a layer of fruit, then again the leaves and so on. After pour apples with specially prepared brine. Boil 5 liters of water with the addition of the specified amount of sugar and salt, then cool and pour the fruit to the top. Keep in mind that in the early days apples will absorb a lot of water, so stay tuned and periodically top up the marinade. When the liquid is absorbed, the bowl needs to be put on top (this can be a wooden circle or an ordinary inverted plate on which a jar of water should be placed on top) and placed in a warm room. In a few days the apples will start to wander. Remove the foam formed on the surface. After the fruit, you can expand into sterilized 3 liter cans, close the lids and put them in a dark cool place. Canned food will be ready in about 1 month. The recipe for wet apples at home can be changed a little and adding other ingredients to taste, for example honey or cinnamon, a handful of cranberries or cranberries. Anyway, in winter you and your family will very much like the slightly sour soft summer fruits.

Recipe for wet apples with honey

If you use this way of cooking, you will get wonderful fruits with a tender taste, which has a light hint of honey. For canned foods for the winter, take:

• Apples - how much will go, but not less than 6-8 kg;
• 12 liters of water;
• 2 cups (650 g) of honey;
• 100 g of table salt.

In a tub or on the banks tightly put the apples and pour the brine: for him, boil the specified amount of water, add honey and salt. Before pouring into cans, the liquid needs to cool a little. And now, as in the previous recipe, put the fruit bowl in a warm place first, and when the apples begin to wander, remove the foam from the surface and top up the brine. After 3-4 days, close the lids and put them in a cold place. Delicious fruit will be completely ready in a couple of months. Such a recipe for wet apples at home can overwhelm the novice mistresses to please his family with an old Russian pickle.