APPLE CHEESE
Apples - 1.5 kg
Walnuts - 50 g
Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp.
Sugar - 320-350 g
Apples need to be washed thoroughly and
wiped with napkins. Cut them into thin slices, remove the seed pods. Put the
apples in a bowl and sprinkle with sugar. It is enough to take 3-4 tablespoons
of sugar from the total amount. Cover the container with the apples with a film
and leave overnight. By morning, the apples will release juice.
Put the container with the apples on low
heat and cook for about 20 minutes, until the apples are soft. When cooking,
the apples should be stirred.
Select part of the apples (about 2-3 tbsp),
place the remaining mass in a food processor and make a puree.
Add sugar. Put the mass back on the fire
and boil until it decreases by 2.5 times. Be sure to stir so that the mass does
not burn. At the end of cooking, it should become slightly viscous.
Pour the apples that we set aside into a
bowl, also add cinnamon and chopped walnuts.
Cook the apple mixture for another 20
minutes. Here you need not to move away and stir all the time, as the mass is
thick enough and can burn. The heat should be minimal.
Cool the apple mass. Take gauze folded in
2-3 layers, moisten with water and squeeze. Cover a suitable round container
with this gauze and lay out the apple mass. Smooth with a spoon, pressing well
so that there are no voids in the finished product.
Roll up the ends of the gauze, gathering
them up, remove the future cheese from the container on a cutting board. Put a
plate on top, and a jar of water on it. Leave in this state for a day.
Then you should remove the gauze and put
the cheese to dry on parchment. Turn 2 times a day for more thorough drying.
Check the readiness of the cheese by pressing your finger - if the mass is
elastic enough, then there will be no trace. After drying, wrap the cheese in
parchment and put it in a cool place.
Serve at Christmas as a treat.
ENJOY YOUR MEAL