How to make apple cider in the home: the best recipe

What is needed

• 5 kg of apples;
• 800 grams of sugar.

Homemade cider can be made from any sour apple varieties, even with-apple wildings. A very sweet fruits are not suitable for him.

To get more or less cider proportional change amount of the ingredients.

How to cook apple cider

First loop through the fruit and remove damaged or carefully cut the rot. Stalk with leaves, too, is better to remove.

Wash is not necessary, especially if the harvest from our own garden. Simply rub the fruit cloth to clean them from dust and dirt.

Slice apples large pieces, the core with seeds not removed. After mince.

The resulting puree mixed with 750 g sugar and place on a clean, dry banks. Leave empty vessels by about a quarter to have a place to ferment. Cover with cheesecloth, folded in several layers, and fix it with the help of rubber band. Leave in dark place at room temperature. Every day, at least once Stir apple mass.

Four days later, press juice through cheesecloth and pour into clean, dry jars.

Place a water trap - it can be bought at a hardware store. Because of the capacity will go carbon dioxide, which is released during fermentation, and the access to oxygen remain overlapped. And more so in the drink will not get insects and dust.

If a special device you do not, assemble it improvised. For example, from the usual sterile gloves with a puncture or a cut on one finger.

Suitable for creating a simple water seal, and long thin tube from the pharmacy dropper. To install it, the lid of the tank for cider make a small hole. It insert a tube so that it does not touch the contents of the cans. Seal the hole and the lower second end in the container with water.

Leave the cider in a dark neprohladnom place for two months. after Decant drinkTo all the residue left on the bottom. To do this, insert the tube into the container or thin tube, breathe through it and direct the flow into the prepared jar. Strain through cheesecloth, folded in several layers.

At the bottom of dry and clean bottles at the rate of sugar put 10 g per 1 liter of liquid. Pour cider that it slightly reached to the top and zakuporte lids. Leave in a dark warm place for a couple of weeks. After transfer to a cool.

After about three days, the drink is ready. Store it in a cool and serve immediately to the table. He goes well with spices.