Apple cider is a lightly carbonated alcoholic beverage. They make it from fermented juice of apples or pears, you can use a mixture of juices. Sour or sweet and sour apple varieties are best suited for homemade cider. The drink is refreshing, with a small strength. Adjust the sugar content to your liking.
Pick your recipe
You will need
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- apples
- pears
- granulated sugar;
- bottles;
- gas outlet device;
- yeast;
- raisins;
- juicer.
Instruction manual
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The first recipe. Sort apples into two bowls. One must have sweet apples, the other sour. Peel apples and peels. Squeeze the juice through a juicer. Separately put a jar of sour juice, separately a jar of sweet juice for two days in a cold place. The juice should settle, all the dregs will settle to the bottom.
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Strain the juices through a fine sieve or cheesecloth. Take a large pot and mix in it sweet and sour juice so that you like the taste. Bottle juice with a ladle. Throw a pair of raisins in each. Close the cork and place in a cold place.
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The second recipe. Sort the apples that have already lay. Cut wrinkled or rotten places. Remove the skin and seed box. Cut the apples into small pieces and put them in a large bottle or tall pot. Pour water so that it covers the thick. Add a small slice of fresh yeast and granulated sugar to taste.
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Leave the container for 3 days in a warm place. Cover on top with a marlechka folded in several layers so that midges do not climb. Then strain the juice, pour it into the bottles and put in the cold.
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The third recipe. Squeeze the juice from the apples, if there are pears, then mix the juices. Add granulated sugar to approximately 200 g per liter of juice. Pour juice into a large narrow-necked bottle. Close the vent plug.
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Make a water shutter. Drill a hole in the plug or cap to fit the size of the tube. The tube can be taken from a dropper. To keep the tap well, cover it with plasticine. Lower the other end of the tube into a water bottle.
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Put the bottle in a cool place for a long fermentation. After a month, strain the finished apple cider.
Useful advice
To give a specific aroma, lemon juice or zest is added to the apple juice during fermentation.
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