Recipes with and without sugar

Prepare apples

In order to bring as much taste as possible into the jar, you should only harvest fully ripe fruits on a dry day. Sort out worm-eaten fruit straight away.

• Wash apples thoroughly and cut out damaged areas.
• Peel the fruits, quarter them and remove the core.
• Cut into not too thin wedges.

The principle of boiling down

Depending on the recipe, the still boiling hot fruits are filled into glasses or cooked directly in the preserving jar. The heat in the cooking pot or oven kills germs. When the food cools down, a vacuum is created that seals the jars airtight. This means that the cooked fruit has a very long shelf life.

Reduce the apple wedges with the raisins and spices

Raisins, lemon juice and cinnamon give the apples a very interesting aroma.

Ingredients:

1 kg of apples, weighed cleaned
1 liter of water
200 g of sugar
100 g raisins
1 packet of vanilla sugar with real vanilla
2 cl rum
Juice of one lemon
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 pinch of cardamom

preparation

1. Prepare the apples and put them in a saucepan.
2. Add sugar, raisins, vanilla sugar and lemon juice. Mix everything together.
3. Bring to the boil and simmer until the apple pieces are soft but still have a bite.
4. Add the rum and the spices.
5. Bring to the boil and immediately pour into glasses with twist-off closures.
6. Turn the jars on the lids and let them cool down.

Reduce the apple wedges without sugar

Apple wedges, which you can boil down without any additional sweetness, are less sweet but at least as tasty.

ingredients

1 kg of apples, weighed cleaned
1 liter of water
Juice of one lemon
To taste: ginger, cinnamon and vanilla

preparation

1. Bring the water with the spices and lemon juice to the boil.
2. Pour apples up to three centimeters below the rim in wake or twist-off jars and pour the water over them until they are completely covered.
3. Close the glasses tightly and place them in a large saucepan or wake-up pot. Fill this with enough water that two thirds of the glasses are in the water bath.
4. Bring the water to the boil, put the lid on, turn off the stove and leave the apple wedges in the pan for about thirty minutes.
5. Take out and let cool down.