The owners try to process the harvest from their site so that in winter they can enjoy tasty and healthy vegetables, fruits, berries. Preservation methods are chosen depending on tastes - for example, apples can be dried, boiled into jam, or processed into canned juice.
When the apples are ripe, it's time for the owners to choose how to save the harvest for the winter. Unclarified canned apple juice is not only tasty, but also very useful product, and the method of obtaining it does not require particularly large labor costs.
The taste of the juice will depend not only on the apple variety, but also on what is added during preparation. It can be sugar, spices. Properly prepared apple juice turns out to be aromatic, with a pleasant sourness.
If the apples for juice are sweet, it is better not to put sugar at all.
Juicing apples for the winter
Homemade canned apple juice is certainly not as healthy as freshly squeezed apple juice. But if you compare with the restored one, which is sold in special packages, homemade will still turn out to be much better - useful substances are stored in it in much larger quantities.
Wash the apples in the required quantity, cut into four parts, remove the core. Pass the prepared apples through a juicer. Strain the freshly squeezed juice through cheesecloth into a saucepan. It must be put on fire and heated, but not allowed to boil. Filter hot juice through a thick cloth. After that, boil it for 3-4 minutes, pour it into jars. Close the jars with lids.
When boiling on the juice, foam will form - it consists of small apple crumbs. It must be completely removed. We can assume that the juice is ready when the foam stops forming - then it should be poured into prepared cans.
If you want to make sweetened juice, take about 1 kg of sugar for 3.5 kg of apples. Sugar should be added before boiling.
You can just preserve natural apple juice and add sugar before drinking.
How to prepare juice cans
Before pouring apple juice into jars, they must be properly prepared. The containers must be sterilized - housewives can use a variety of methods for this, for example, boiling, heating in a microwave oven, steaming. Caps to be closed must be sterilized with the cans.
The prepared juice is poured into sterilized jars, closed with lids, turned upside down and wrapped up - for this you can use an old blanket. So the juice should stand for about a day. After that, the cans are turned back. In a dark cool place, the juice can be stored for about two years.
