Pastila from Antonovka

Category: Confectionery

Kitchen: Russian

Ingredients
Apples antonovka	4.5 kg
Sugar	900 g

Cooking method

Old technologies in a new way ... or "The fight against the harvest continues"
Paste. From Antonovka. From a real, simple Antonovka. Podmoskovno - village. This is the only apple, perhaps, which is pleasant in all forms. In soaked water, for example, it is the first snack and at the same time a remedy that "for later" is irreplaceable. And baked, but if made with honey, the dessert is unsurpassed. Well, etc., etc. Those who know - they will understand. And those who "do not" ..., they can only regret.
And I'll tell you about the marshmallow. Not about the famous Belevskaya, but somewhat different. But from this “otherness” of its own, it is not at all ..., it is just that it is different.
And old technologies, which we will also touch on in a new way.
Here they are - apples, only from a tree and marshmallow, the one that is "different."
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Of course, in order to cook the marshmallow, you must, first, pick the apples from the tree, bring them home and wash, of course. Although they were from their garden and were not treated with anything chemical, but still. In general, wash it without fail.
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Apples, for a start, you need to cut and clean all the centers and seeds. There are a lot of ways. You can just use a knife, or you can use this simple, but very convenient way to do it, as they say now. The process is very convenient and fast.
I will note about the proportions. We took four and a half kilograms of apples. Already in pure and crushed form.
Load the apples into a suitable container and ... you need only a glass of one and a half. It would be more correct to pour water on the bottom of the pan, and only then put the apples in it.
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And then we put the pan on the stove, on a small light. And keep it, the pan on the stove, steam the apples. We must wait until they soften.
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And you can go another way. Cut only the core, or chop and bake as well. It is best, of course, to do this in the Russian stove, but ... you can do without an oven.
The goal is the same - to soften Antonovka until it completely relaxes and loses its elasticity.
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And then, if you quickly do it, then with a blender, for example, grind baked or steamed apples into a homogeneous mass.
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If you rub the apples through a sieve, then the mass will turn out, of course, more tender and ... well, probably, pure. In terms of the uniformity of the finished product.
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For those four and a half kilograms of apples, you need to add nine hundred grams (and what can you do, if the package now weighs just that much) sugar.
Very well. Carefully! Knead the mass and put the pan on the stove again, on a small light. The mass must be constantly mixed. Delicately so. As soon as it starts bubbling, continue to gently stir for another five to ten minutes.
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Once the mass is ready, let it cool.
In the meantime, it cools down, let's talk about these old technologies, which are in a new way. It would be more correct to continue the process again in the Russian stove. But, honestly, to drown laziness. Therefore, we used this device here. It's called a "dehydrator" !!! But they think that they have invented something very new, but the essence has not changed. Ascending currents of dry warm air, as in a “free-standing oven”.
“… But in August and September, when it was time to dry mushrooms, apples, pears, bird cherry, rose hips and other gifts of nature, it was difficult to do without a free Russian oven. It was customary to call such a stove, which, after the end of the firebox, continues to emit the so-called free heat accumulated by it in the brick bins ... "
This is how it looks ... this dehydrator.
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It consists of such pallets.Hot air rises up the central shaft and blows through each pallet. Such a thin silicone plate is placed on the pallet grid. There is something else in the kit attached, but this will be discussed in other stories.
And then these pallet blocks are assembled into a column. They say that you can collect as many as fifty of these pallets. I do not know. Have not tried more than ten.
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This silicone plate should be lightly greased with vegetable oil. Since we will cook the marshmallow, and not the potatoes, for example, fry, take some deliciously aromatic butter. Peanut, for example. Or grape seed.
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Spread the apple mass into a pallet in a thin and even layer.
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You know, it's worth then moving the pallet in a horizontal plane, knocking it. This is necessary solely to achieve the same uniformity of mass distribution.
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This is how it looks “before” the process of this dehydration starts.
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To fill the ten pallets we have, just enough mass was enough, which we prepared from four and a half kilograms of apples and nine hundred grams of sugar. There was nothing superfluous and no shortage was experienced.
We set the temperature to sixty-five degrees and turn on the unit.
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The dehydrator hummed for ten hours.
Here's what happened.
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It is very convenient to roll the finished marshmallow layers into tubes. Before serving, cut this tube, for example, into rings. And in order to brighten up the sour taste of Antonovka for someone from the sweet tooth, put powdered sugar next to it - let it be.
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And she is all ordinary, simple Antonovka. Queen of the apple orchard.
Angela at the meal !!!
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