Making apple pastille at home is a long process. Welding and shrinkage, depending on the conditions, can take from several hours to days, but the result is worth it. And in the case of such a natural disaster as an unprecedented harvest of apples, this ancient recipe can become almost the only salvation. After all, pastilles are stored indefinitely, and in the season you can stock it for a whole year. However, as experience shows, small sweet tooth destroy any number in the shortest possible time.
Apple pastille - recipe
Ingredients:
- apples (antonovka) - 2 kg;
- sugar - 200 g.
Preparation
How to make a pastel from apples? Fruit my and put in a baking dish. Fill half a glass of water and send for 40 minutes in the oven, heated to 170 degrees. We take out when the apples become soft. Still warm rub them through a sieve. The resultant puree is boiled on the smallest fire (it is better to use a flame divider) by a third. It will take about half an hour. Do not forget to stir occasionally. Puree should become thick and slightly golden. Let it cool down. If the juice is extracted, we filter the mass through a sieve - we only need the flesh. To make homemade pastilles from apples turned out to be light and airy, you need to saturate it with oxygen. To do this, beat the apple mass until it begins to lighten. After pouring sugar and continue to beat until completely dissolved. Of the sweet varieties of apples, you can prepare the pastille without sugar at all, it turns out to be quite tough, but low-calorie.
The pan is covered with parchment and we spread puree with a thickness of 2-3 cm. If you are going to fold the prepared pastille into a tube, then the layer should be no more than 5 mm. In general, the thinner the sheet, the faster it will dry up. You can dry it in the sun, it will take several days, or at the lowest power in a slightly opened oven - about 10 hours. When the pastille ceases to stick to the fingers, it is ready. We remove the parchment from a still warm layer. To do this, turn the pastila paper up and cover with a damp towel. In a couple of minutes the parchment will easily go away.
We spread the prepared pastille with jam, cover with a second sheet and squeeze a little. A couple of hours later they stick together. Figurately sliced and brewed tea.
Pastille of apples with nuts - recipe
Ingredients:
- apples - 1 kg;
- peanut - 100 g;
- sugar - 100 g.
Preparation
Peanut lightly fry, remove the husks. Crushed nuts are mixed with the boiled apple puree. We do not beat up the mass, but immediately put it on a baking sheet, spread it and dry it in the oven for about 24 hours. Thanks to nuts, the surface of the finished pastille is not smooth, but slightly embossed.