Homemade sweets are gaining popularity today. Apple marmalade is a unique delicacy. Suitable for baby and diet food, as it does not contain harmful components and preservatives. An absolutely natural product.
Any kind and variety of apples are used for marmalade. Even fallen apples can be used. Those fruits are suitable that did not fit on compotes because of their appearance. To make marmalade, it is better to take apples that are not lying. The fruits of summer, ripe, mealy varieties are also not suitable, since such marmalade will not gel well. And also it will have to be acidified with juices of sour varieties of berries. To give the marmalade a bright color, you can add juice, for example, black currant to the composition.
There are 2 recipes for making marmalade.
1 recipe. Wash the apples, dry, cut and remove the middle. Any of the ways to make mashed apples and cook with added sugar. At the rate of 1 kg of puree add 600 g of sugar. Mashed potatoes are boiled in a large saucepan, stirring constantly. Cook until the finished puree lags behind the bottom. Ready marmalade is laid out on a baking sheet or in molds, which are covered with parchment or baking paper. All this must be done while the marmalade is still hot. The mass is left in this form for drying. The top of the marmalade must be leveled with a knife or spatula. It is dried simply in the air to the consistency of marmalade.
2 recipe. The washed apples must be baked in the oven until tender. Then they are rubbed through a fine sieve, thereby separating the grains, cores and skins. We get mashed potatoes. This puree is prepared in the same way as described in recipe 1.
As a decoration and giving new flavors, ready-made marmalade, before hardening, can be sprinkled with nuts, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds or chopped candied citrus fruits.
