Recipes for canned cucumbers in apple juice for the winter
In August, the apple tree filled us with apples, I didn't even know where to put them. I pressed on cider and decided to cook cucumbers in apple juice for the winter. I pressed a lot of juice, and enough for cider, and for cucumbers. I read different recipes, chose, in my opinion, the most successful ones. I suggest you try them out.
Cooking cucumbers without sterilization in apple juice
In the morning I collected fresh cucumbers, just Herman pleased with beautiful, even 12 cm cucumbers. Herman pickles always taste great. Although the greens are only from the garden, I still put them in a basin and filled them with cold water. They lay in my water for at least 2 hours.
I walked through the garden, plucked leaves from currants, from cherries. You need a little per jar - 2-3 currants, 1-2 cherries. I looked into the garden and found a couple of dill umbrellas. I had to get another basin. I always soak greens in 2-3 waters before use. There is dirt and dust on the leaves, although it is not visible.
Juice
I had already prepared a juice of 1.5 liters the day before, stood in the refrigerator. I crushed apples on an ordinary garden juicer, then filtered through cheesecloth. He stood in the refrigerator, the remnants of the pulp settled to the bottom, and the juice became transparent, like a tear. It took about 4 kg of apples to make the juice. The figure is approximate, because the volume depends on the juiciness of the fruit.
Container
I love pickling cucumbers in apple juice in jars with a large throat. Easy to wash, easy to arrange cucumbers and spices. In jars with a wide neck, any pickled vegetables look very appetizing. To prevent my can from exploding with my cucumbers in winter, I sterilize it.
Now, when everyone has a microwave oven in the kitchen, there is no point in fiddling with sterilizing cans in the oven or with steam. I pour 0.5 tbsp of water into a jar washed with soda, put it in the microwave, turn on the oven for 5 minutes. The sterile jar is ready.
Cucumber preparation
I rinse the cucumbers, mine with a sponge, mine diligently, I don’t regret my hands because I’m afraid of butulism. I put clean, brilliant cucumbers on a large dish to wrap around. I pour a kettle full of water and turn it on.
I take out a jar from the microwave oven, greens from the basin - currant, cherry leaves and dill umbrellas. I shake the greens and put one part in the jar, leave the other for the top.
I cut off the tips of the cucumbers, put the cucumbers in a jar. I prefer to put them vertically. The bank looks beautiful and zelentov with this method of styling includes more.
The jar is full, the kettle is boiling. I pour boiling water into the jar and cover it with the lid boiled before. While the cucumbers are warming up, I am doing the marinade.
Making apple juice marinade
I take the apple juice out of the refrigerator, pour it into a saucepan, put it on the stove. I add 1 tablespoon of sugar and salt to the marinade. My apples are very sweet, so sugar 1 tbsp. l. For sour fruits, you can increase the amount of sugar to 2 tbsp. l.
I remove the boiled marinade from the stove, pour 1 dessert spoon of apple cider vinegar into it. Pour water from a jar of cucumbers, pour boiling marinade into it, twist the lid. The blank for the winter is almost ready, it remains to put it under a fur coat. Under a fur coat, cucumbers in apple juice will stand until they cool completely (1-2 days). I will store the workpiece in the cellar.
Recipe for cucumbers in apple juice with sterilization
I don't like canning with sterilization, but I decided to try this recipe, because I squeezed out a lot of apple juice, it had to be used urgently. The salting process was not difficult.
It took Zelentov a little more than a kilogram (1.2 kg), and it took exactly 1 liter of juice. From the seasonings I took a few pieces of cloves and peppercorns. She plucked two currant leaves and one dill umbrella.
I have already described the preparation of cucumbers and jars above. The marinade is prepared in the same way as in the previous recipe, with one exception - I do not use vinegar. I added only 1 tbsp to the juice. l salt and boiled.
She put herbs, spices and cucumbers in a sterile jar, poured everything with boiling marinade. A jar of cucumbers covered with a sterile lid was sterilized for 15 minutes, rolled up and put under a fur coat for 2 days.
Conclusion
Recipes with cucumbers in apple juice for the winter met my expectations completely. Correctly salted, appetizing, crunchy, with a delicate, moderately spicy taste, they ran out very quickly. I strongly advise all housewives who have a summer apple tree in the garden to try the recipes I proposed.
