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Fermented Apples

Recipe for very tasty homemade fermented apples.

Prep Time
20 mins
Additional Time
40 d
Course: Snacks
Cuisine: American , Eastern European

Ingredients

  • medium apples firm fall or winter variety; enough to fill your fermentation jar
For the brine
  • 1000 ml clean drinking water at room temperature
  • 38 g white sugar
  • 5 g pickling salt or Morton kosher salt
  • 2 cherry and/or black currant leaves optional

Instructions

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  1. Rinse the apples (do not scrub) and the leaves (if using), and place them in a clean storage jar.
  2. Make enough brine to fill the jar full of apples. It will be approximately half to 2/3 of the volume of the jar. In a large bowl, combine the water with salt and sugar and whisk until dissolved.
  3. Pour the brine into the jar all the way to the top, leaving about a 1/3" (1cm) headspace.
  4. Ferment the apples at room temperature (68F-70F / 20C-21C) for 10 days.
  5. Next, move the jar to the fridge and mature the apples for 30 days.
  6. After 30 days in the fridge, fermented apples are ready for consumption.