Today, any housewife can afford to establish home production of sugar from beets. Let it not be a store-bought refined sugar, but a sweet syrup: it will completely satisfy the taste of the most demanding gourmet. All that is required to make it is simple kitchen utensils and a little time.
It is necessary
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- Sugar beet
- knife
- pan
- enameled dishes
- plate
- press
- canvas bag
- autoclave.
Instructions
Step 1
Cut the roots off the beet tubers and rinse the fruits well. Then put the beets in a pot of boiling water and cook them for about an hour over high heat. Then take out the cooked tubers, cool them and peel them.
Step 2
Then carefully cut the fruit into thin slices or pass them through a meat grinder. Put the resulting mass in a canvas bag and place under a press. Collect the emerging juice in an enamel bowl. If the beets have been cooked long enough, the juice will separate easily.
Step 3
Then put the squeezed beets back into the saucepan and cover with water so that the water is half as much as the beets. After boiling for half an hour, put the mass back into the bag and repeat the spinning process.
Step 4
Heat the resulting juice and strain it through a gauze cloth into the same saucepan. Then put the pan on the fire and, stirring constantly, begin the process of evaporation. After a while, syrup will start to form in the dishes. It should be allowed to brew for 2-3 days, and then poured into glass jars.
Step 5
If your goal is to get a thick syrup containing a lot of sugar, then you need an autoclave. Wash and peel the beets first. Then put it into the autoclave, setting the pressure to 1.5 atm. Steam the tubers for an hour, making sure the water does not boil away. Then chop the beets and place them under a press. Filter the resulting juice and evaporate. As a result, you will get a syrup that resembles honey in its consistency. It will become a complete sugar substitute for you.
