Ranetki apple trees give a rich harvest. These small fruits are fragrant and beautiful. From them incredibly tasty and mouth-watering jam is cooked. There are several cooking options. You can make not only jam from the ranetki, but also compote.
For starters, a simple recipe. We take one kilogram of apples and cut them into slices, removing the seeds and the stalk. The peel can be peeled or left to your discretion. Then fill the apples with water, to which we add a little salt. If the fruits are very dense, then blanch them first. To do this, put them in boiling water and cook for 3-5 minutes. We make syrup from one kilogram of sugar and a glass of water. After that, put apple slices in boiling syrup and mix them lightly. Next, turn off the fire and remove the jam from the ranetki to the side for 5 hours. We perform this operation three times. The last time we cook the jam until cooked. If you want to get not very sweet jam, a little sour, then add some citric acid. Lay out the finished product in the jars that have been prepared beforehand and close the lids.
You can make jam so that the fruit remains intact. To do this, prepare 7 kilograms of runet. In fruits, remove the stalks, leaving the third part, and prick them with a toothpick. Then put them in a container and pour boiling water for 5 minutes. We drain the liquid. In the meantime, make syrup. For 200-250 ml of water we take 800 grams of sugar. Dip the ranetki in boiling syrup and cook for 10 minutes, not allowing the jam to boil too much. Then we carefully take out the apples and put them in jars. The glass container must first be sterilized. The syrup remaining from the preparation is boiled again and pour jars of apples with it. Ranetka jam prepared in this way can be closed with polyethylene covers and stored in a cooler place. In this case, an amber-colored product is obtained with beautiful whole fruits.
Ranetka jam can be prepared in a slightly different way. To do this, take one kilogram of apples of this variety and rinse them thoroughly. Then we cut them into slices and fill with sugar in the amount of one kilogram. We give the future jam to infuse for 7.5 - 8 hours. During this time, it should let the juice go. After this period, pour a glass of water into the container with the prepared product and put it on fire. We give jam to boil and cook it for about 5 minutes. Then set it aside for 10 hours. Next, cook until tender. Jam is considered ready when it becomes transparent, and the fruits sink to the bottom. Pre-prepare glass jars. Pour jam from the ranetki into cans and close with metal lids.
Ranetki are used not only to make jam or jam. They make tasty and fragrant compote.
We put apples in the prepared jars, filling them by a third. For color and taste, you can add a small amount of chokeberry. Fill cans with boiling water. Leave them for a while until the water cools down. Then we pour the water back into the used container and add sugar there at the rate of 250 grams per one three-liter jar. In order to make the compote not very sweet, you can pour a little bit of citric acid on each jar. We close the containers with metal lids and allow them to cool. Then we send them to a cooler place for storage. Compote from the ranetki has a beautiful color and aroma.
Using one of these recipes, you can make preparations for the winter from the harvested crop. In the winter, they will remind you of the summer and delight the whole family. This apple variety, like no other, is ideal for making jam and stewed fruit due to its taste characteristics.