Lemon sugar

[Jeannet]

Krosh, a question for you, should you disassemble the slices like an orange or cut them like a Qween, or is there no difference at all? Thank you!

Jeannet,
Of course there is no difference. I did both disassembling into slices and cutting into circles (like Qween ). Do as you like best.

the syrup really turned out to be very, very liquid. I wonder why such a difference in density?

Luysia,
I think that the thickness of the syrup in lemon wedges directly depends on the juiciness of the lemons (IMHO). I have made lemon slices more than once, and the syrup thickness is always different ... But this does not bother me at all, it is still very tasty, besides, we are preparing "Lemon slices in syrup", not lemon jam or confiture.
Girls, by the way about lemon honey ... I used to make lemons passed through a meat grinder and mixed 1: 1 with honey. It turned out very tasty too ... But I like it more with sugar, although I understand intellectually that it is healthier with honey ... Or I just don't love honey so much to appreciate the taste of "lemon honey" ...
And from my observations ... Lemon sugar (for my taste) turns out to be tastier if you grind the lemons in a blender, and then mix with sugar (IMHO).

And I made lemon sugar and lemon wedges
The slices are now in banks. It's already the second day. But on top of me (and in some places inside) the sugar did not melt. If I hope that inside it will melt during sterilization, then I started to worry about sugar from above. Can you mix it somehow? Divided the slices.

shuska,
In lemon slices, sugar will completely dissolve only after sterilization (at least for me). You do not need to stir anything, although I think that if you shake the jar of slices slightly, nothing bad will happen.

[Crochet]

Crochet, Thank you. As they say - wait and see

[shuska]

shuska, I, too, in slices, had sugar on top all three days, and then melted during serialization.

[shuska]

shuska, I, too, in slices, had sugar on top all three days, and then melted during serialization.

We have to mature for another day. My heart could not resist, the hand trembled. I climbed into the jars and turned over the top slices of sugar. And inside the jars, the unmelted sugar was left to wait for sterilization

[Qween]

Qween, I have a question about lemon sugar. Did it. Delicious. I ground the lemons through a meat grinder, so there are pieces. If you put a spoon in tea, then at the bottom you get a sediment of lemon "thick". And you wrote what you do with a blender. How? Immersion or with a glass? And how is lemon "thick" made in comparison with a meat grinder?

[shuska]

shuska,
until Qween missing, can I answer? Earlier (then I did not have a blender yet), just like you, I passed lemons through a meat grinder, now I grind them with an immersion blender, that is, I have something to compare with. So, about the thick ... after grinding the lemons with a blender, the thick will still be, only finer grinding. And I like to drink tea with lemon sugar with a bite ... and no thick on the bottom of the teacup!
Qweenand what You say?

Girls, how about a blender? Cut into small pieces, and then - with a blender?

Previously, I passed lemons (which I cut into 4 - 8 parts) through a meat grinder, and now I grind them in a blender from a combine. The blender is not one in which cocktails are whipped, but one into which you can insert a shredder, or a knife for chopping meat, well, or lemons.

You can grind it even in the bowl with a knife, which comes with the hand blender, but many lemons will not fit at once. I didn’t do it myself with an immersion blender.

I like the result from the blender much more - the thick is very fine and pleasant to eat.

[Qween]

You can grind it in the bowl with a knife, which comes with the hand blender, but many lemons will not fit at once. I didn’t do it myself with an immersion blender.

Qween,
It is in such a bowl with a knife (I have Brown 6550) that I grind, stuff the bowl "to the strings." The result is beyond praise!

Thanks for the recipe, simple, fast, convenient, made with a blender

[Crochet]

Today I covered lemon slices with sugar, already in a basin. Then, before sterilization, I will put them in jars.

Crochet, what was there about five-liter cans?

I concluded that I would continue to pour sugar over the lemon slices in a bowl, and then transfer them to jars and sterilize. I put the sugar that has settled to the bottom in jars, on top of the lemons. When sterilized, it dissolves completely.

It's faster and more convenient for me.

Today we'll eat pancakes with lemon wedges.

[Qween]

Qween
I also did this the last time (just the other day) - it's so convenient!

But I didn't get the lemon slices.
First, the sugar at the bottom of the jars has not dissolved. I tried to stir it and sterilized it longer. But the sugar layer still remained. Secondly, apparently, due to the fact that I sterilized and dug with a spoon longer, my slices fell apart. And I tried so hard to carefully separate the slices from the lemons before adding sugar! And then it turned out such a mess. It's a shame. : (Thirdly, it seems that something is wrong with the taste. A strong contrast of taste - a very sweet syrup and a very sour slice inside. And despite the fact that the lemons were gorgeous!

There were so many delicious hopes for these slices, but here is the result. Maybe I have thought of something?
Girls, what kind of slices do you get?

Prepared - 1 lemon + 1 orange, sugar approximately 1: 1. I put sugar on a saucer on the right with pancakes, honey on the left. I tried it, I thought - I mixed it, I taste it ... I have to buy more honey and make lemon honey

shuska, do not be discouraged, you are not alone, I have the same story, one to one, I use gravy to soak the cakes. Nothing, we have something else to turn out !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Crochet]

Girls, I'm so sorry you didn't like the lemon wedges.
My slices have no taste contrast, but everything is very harmonious. And the lemon slices are whole, they look like candied fruits.

Maybe not cut into slices, but cut in half rings across, and rather thinly.

Or whisk everything with a blender and let it infuse.

Be sure to try to make it from at least one lemon.

Can Crochet something else will advise.

PS: Yesterday I baked a delicious, "wet" lemon muffin in a cartoon. Lemons took part in both mine and Crumbs .

Girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, it can't all work out! Life, it's striped !!!
There is such a meltdown here that I will send (although I rarely do it).

Going out the other day for a smoke. Next comes the commercial. Well, there, the crisis, the delay in wages ...
I told him: "Lesha, well, it can't always be good. Life, it's striped ..."
He told me: "Yeah, like a zebra. Black stripe - white stripe - black stripe - white ... And then what?"
I told him: "Black stripe ..."
He told me: "Noooo, Katyusha ... Next is the ass!"

Girls, and if you make lemon sugar with fructose, then you need less fructose? or better with sugar? I thought that fructose is not as big as sugar ... maybe it's better?

[Rezlina]

Rezlina , and your sugar has not dissolved, or is it for the future?

[Rezlina]

Rezlina , and your sugar has not dissolved, or is it for the future?

Don't ... I cut limes and think

[Rezlina]

Rezlina, my sugar almost completely dissolves, and does not creak on my teeth.
If the sugar is very coarse, then you can grind it into powder, and the problem is solved.

Girls, and if you make lemon sugar with fructose, then you need less fructose? or better with sugar? I thought that fructose is not as big as sugar ... maybe it's better?

There is an unverified version (by me), but I am already inclined that it is correct, that fructose is harmful on a par with other sugar substitutes. And sugar substitutes are more harmful than sugar. Therefore, it may turn out that fructose is more harmful than sugar ...
Although, we have a pennant of harm like a rolling banner ... In a couple of years we can famously change direction in the opposite direction ...

Well, now ... the sugar remained grains ... what to do? leave to stand warm?

[Rezlina]

Rezlina , my sugar also does not dissolve immediately. After cooking, I don't put it in the refrigerator right away, but leave it on the table in the kitchen for a couple of days.

[Qweenusik]

Qweenusik, sprinkle ashes on my head! Where were my eyes ?! Why did I just now do this miracle ?!

Here is just cooked. 450 g of lemons, 900 g of sugar.



And this is in three days. I don't put it in the refrigerator.



Already lemon roll did, lemon cake and pancake cake.

I don’t know whether someone has written or not, this lemon sugar makes excellent Berlin cookies.

Girls!! According to the same recipe (1: 2), you can make strawberries, black currants, raspberries, apricots. In our family, this recipe has been passed down from generation to generation since great-grandmother's times!

[Qween]

Qween!
I came to you to say thank you for the idea of ​​lemon sugar!
Here I cut it into slices, sprinkled it with sugar, it was the case, but your method is better and I liked it more. I only put sugar 1: 1, as they like with me.
Good! Conveniently! And useful! Thank you!
Special thanks to the wonderful Stеrn for drawing my attention to this topic.
On the weekend I will buy a couple more kg of lemons to continue the banquet.
The report is attached:

Qween, hello!
Your Lemon Sugar recipe is something ...
My husband started to "carry" it as soon as this sugar was cooked! And so it went on all the time that sugar is given to brew! Half a jar was gone, it was used with tea.
My husband told you to bow and send a HUGE THANKS for such a treat!
I made an orange one at the same time with lemon sugar (there were some not sweet oranges), but in our opinion, lemon sugar is better, although orange sugar is also not bad.

oh, and I had to unsubscribe in this thread but I got lost
Thanks for the recipe, it's so delicious, I drink tea with lemon sugar several times a day and in the evening I make myself a type of drink in boiled, not very hot water, I add lemon sugar, I drink and I still want to. And today at lunchtime I baked a couple of pancakes (I always have ready-made pancake dough in the refrigerator, the simplest one) and anointed the pancakes with lemon sugar mmm .......... I'm waiting for the end of the working day. to repeat
One thing is bad, lemons have risen in price due to the epidemic

Tell me, what about the fact that everything with crusts does not affect the taste? Will it not taste bitter?

Not bitter, taste is excellent! We ate one liter jar, tomorrow we will do it again. Fresh bread with butter, lime on top. sugar-

[RybkA]

RybkA,
Allow me? The bones are bitter! We must get rid of them. This is the first thing.
Secondly, the skin of the lemon is "two-layer" - yellow and white underneath. So this one white can also give bitterness. For example, I found one comrade who didn't like it. I had to make lemon sugar a second time as follows: first, I removed the zest (yellow top layer) with a vegetable peeler, set it aside, then peeled off the white layer from the fruit and threw it away, then removed the seeds and go ahead: ground the yellow zest and pulp + sugar! A little longer, but no one will pick on.
Although, for me, in the first version it was very good, that is, where only lemon is peeled from the seeds.

[Anise]

Anise, that is, it is necessary to remove the partitions too?
I'll have to try to do a little

[RybkA]

RybkA
In the process of getting rid of the bones, I throw away some of the films from the slices,
but without fanaticism, just along the way, which you don't like. You don't have to do this.

And for me the 1: 2 ratio is very sweet. I just add sugar to taste, keep in the fridge, do a little.

And I am with my THANKS. I cooked it and walk around the can like a Krylov monkey. "He sniffs them, then licks them."

Qween, accept gratitude from our family, I did it again today, the first portion together with my husband were posted in less than a week.Never before have so many lemons been eaten in such a short time. Vkusnoooo !!!

And I bring you a tremendous thank you for the recipe. Not even a month passed when a little more than 3 liters did not become. Yesterday I bought lemons and a bag of sugar ... no, don’t think I will not make a bag ... but I will make one and a half kg of lemons again. Well, very, very tasty

Huge thanks for the lemon sugar recipe. My family was skeptical at first, and when it was over, my husband said I ought to buy more lemons and make lemon sugar, and I myself, when I sit down to drink tea, I feel that something is missing ... I treated my friend with this sugar, so she I put it in the freezer so that when they get sick, they could use it, she just killed me with that, I laughed for a long time, but if I gave black caviar and she would have stuck it, then I would understand, but here ... 1 kg approximately It costs 40 rubles.

Girls, and the last three times I make lemon sugar 1: 1, 1: 1.5 is very luscious for me ... I thought that in a 1: 1 ratio I needed to store only in the refrigerator (I already have it bursting at the seams), left to try one jar in the kitchen table, today I discovered-tasted incredible yummy, and it didn’t deteriorate, I already thought that it was ... fermented, after all, it stood for about two months in a closet at room temperature ... It turns out that you can store it outside the refrigerator even with this proportion of sugar!

The first time I made sugar through a meat grinder (it worked great), and the second time with a blender. So I got a mass with bubbles like mousse. Already waiting for 3 days, that settles - does not want. Do you think it will not be lost? Sahara took 1: 1.5.

[Elenka69]

Elenka69 , I made 1 lemons with a blender: 2 sugar. Thickness rises, and syrup remains below.

[Stеrn]

Thank you, Stеrn! I will wait, although this foam does not bother me, but the taste has changed a little from the heavily broken zest. Didn't you think so?
Or am I addicted to it ...

Thickness rises, and syrup remains below.

And I do the same. I do it with a hand blender.

[Stеrn]

Thank you, Stеrn! I will wait, although this foam does not bother me, but the taste has changed a little from the heavily broken zest. Didn't you think so?
Or am I addicted to it ...

And I have nothing to compare with! I just do it with a blender. And this thick is like a filling in a pyrogyi ...

[northerner]

northerner , to your health!

Elenka69 , I do not know of cases when this sugar would ferment, in any proportions and without a refrigerator. Now I only do it with a blender, and my mother only grinds it with a meat grinder. I grind as fine as possible, then lemons infuse faster.

I honestly did not expect that everyone would like my sugar so much. Very nice !

[Qween]

Qween still liked it! The flu epidemic seemed to be upon us, but they didn't figure out what to do with lemons. You can't just eat a lot of them.
Well, now I'll be calm, so it won't wander. We sentenced 1kg, started the second ...

And take my thanks from me. We are already eating the first kilogram. And with tea. with water and casseroles it goes well