What to wish for if a lot of apples were born? Make apple cider from them. This aromatic low-alcohol apple wine is also quite healthy. A natural drink cannot be compared to artificially flavored store counterparts.
Natural drinks are healthy and tasty. This fully applies to apple cider. It contains 6-7 ° alcohol, therefore it is a weak wine.
Such a drink will be appropriate on a festive table, suitable for Sunday lunch. You can sometimes afford a glass of cider after work.
Those who have their own garden in their personal plot, where there is a large harvest of apples, can prepare a lot of aromatic drink from these fruits. You can buy them in the store, the main thing is that the apples are juicy.
Preparatory work
In addition to apples, you need a juicer, sugar and glass containers in which the fermentation process will take place. Can be cooked in a special dark wine bottle that has a narrow neck. If not, then a 3- or 5-liter jar will do.
Ingredients:
- 1 liter of apple juice (any);
- 200 g of granulated sugar.
Apple cider is a great way out when there are a lot of volunteers. It is a pity to throw it away, and it is not necessary. Such fruits must be thoroughly washed, cut out rotten and worm-eaten places.
If apples are an example of beauty and are only removed from a branch or bought, then they are washed, a core is cut out with a special device, since the juice with a stone and a stalk may have a taste. For the same reason, it is better to peel apples from the skin. If the fruits are very small, then you can not suffer, but remove only their middle part.
If the juicer has a large bowl volume, then small apples can be put in it whole. If it is small, then the fruits are cut into 2-4 parts and squeezed out.
Pour 200 grams of granulated sugar into one liter of liquid. This amount just fits in a glass beaker. This is a great yardstick.
It is dangerous to mix ingredients in a glass jar, as it can break if you do not calculate the forces and accidentally hit the wall of a fragile container with a spoon. It is best to do this in an enamel saucepan.
Fermentation and tasting
After the juice is poured into a jar, a rubber glove is put on top of it, in which any finger is punctured. In order to prepare cider according to all the rules, make a water seal.
A home odor trap can be made with a soft dropper tube and a plastic cap. In the middle of the latter, a recess is made, a tube is inserted into it, and the gap is buried with wax.
One end of the tube is lowered into a jar, and the other is placed in a container with water. After 2 months, you need to carefully drain the drink, pour out the sediment, rinse the jar and pour the young cider into it again. The drink will be fully ready in 5 months.
If they started making it in early August, then on the New Year's table there will be amber apple cider prepared according to an old recipe.
