What to wish if many apples were born? Make from them apple cider. This fragrant low alcohol apple wine also quite useful. Not compare natural drink to artificially flavored store analogs.
Natural drinks are useful and nice to the taste. It fully belongs to apple cider. It contains 6-7 ° alcohol therefore is rather weak wine. Such drink will be appropriate on a holiday table, will approach a Sunday lunch. It is possible to afford sometimes after work a glass of cider.
Those who have the garden on a personal plot where there is a big harvest of apples can make a lot of fragrant drink from these fruits. It is possible to buy them and in shop, the main thing that apples were juicy.
Preparatory work
Besides apples, the juice extractor, sugar and a glass container in which there will take place fermentation process is necessary. It is possible to prepare in a special dark large bottle for wine which has a narrow neck. If it is absent, then the 3- or 5-liter can will approach. Ingredients: - 1 liter of juice from apples (any); - 200 g of granulated sugar. Apple cider will become an excellent way out when there is a lot of fruit drop. It is a pity to throw out and it isn't necessary. Such fruits it is necessary to wash up, cut out carefully the places which began to rot and consumed by a worm. If apples are an example of beauty and are only removed from a branch or bought, then wash them, the special device cut out a core as unpitted juice and a fruit stem can have smack. It is for the same reason better to peel apples from skin. If fruits very small, then it is possible not to suffer, and to remove only their middle part. If the juice extractor has the large volume of a bowl, then medium-sized apples can be put in it entirely. If small, then fruits cut on 2-4 parts and squeeze out juice. Pour 200 grams of granulated sugar into one liter of liquid. Such quantity just finds room in a glass glass. It is an excellent measure.
In a glass jar it is dangerous to mix ingredients as it can break if not to calculate force and to strike unintentionally with a spoon a wall of a fragile container. It is better to do it in the enameled pan.
Fermentation and tasting
After juice is poured in bank, from above put a rubber glove in which any finger is pierced on her. In due form to make cider, make a hydrolock.
The house hydrolock can be made of a soft tubule from a dropper and a polyethylene cover. In the middle of the last deepening becomes, the tubule is inserted into it, and the gap is dug in by wax.
One end of a tubule falls in bank, and the second is put in a container with water. In 2 months it is necessary to merge carefully drink, to pour out a deposit, to wash out to bank and again to pour young cider there. Completely drink will be ready in 5 months. If it began to be done at the beginning of August, then on a New Year's table there will be an amber apple cider made according to the ancient recipe.