It began with the fact that once the visit to Ukraine had a chance to try pickled apples with Lukyanovka - and before that, it was a fabulous taste (well, a Royal dish!), indescribable how delicious it is! honey, liquid! Yes, longing so stuck, so these apples were like... But the fact that here in exile about this not even heard - it is clear... until the longing for those apples was stuck, I decided, overcoming all difficulties and obstacles, for the first time fermenting their most... Well, there were not many difficulties, and so a trifle: Yes barrel to get a haystack to find... in General, was just all... And now - the trial took place... see stupid blissful smile of happiness on my face? So, tell... first things First, barrel! Bought in the Russian shop and pre-filled with water for swelling, the longer, the better! Before harvesting barrel well scalded with boiling water.

Haystack, yeah... sitting around hay in the fields "vast", but not to reach it - rolled it tightly in plastic. I had to go to the pet store and buy a package of organic hay from the Alpine meadows for rabbits. Hay also scalded with boiling water. Wash apples.

Leaves to wash. To prepare bread pudding: this rye flour can be diluted with water up to "pancakes", then, while stirring vigorously, pour 1 liter of boiling water. Cool...

A barrel (bottom and sides) spread hay. On the bottom put a layer of leaves, and then apples with the stem up, put a layer of apples, layer of leaves, layer of hay, sprinkling of dry mint...

Prepare the brine: 10-11 kg of apples take 9 liters of boiling water, 250 g sugar, 150 g of salt and all this boil. Let cool and add rye pudding and 1 tbsp mustard. Pour the apples, cover with leaves and straw (by the way, explain a particularly gifted - hay and straw, it's like? one and the same? or two big of a difference?)...

Put on top of the latticed branches of the tree, the leaves, and then marlechku, the circle and the cargo on it.

Forget it for a couple of months, or rather not quite forget the fact that for the first time, apples actively absorb the brine, it is necessary to monitor the level of the brine if the apples will be without the brine - it was gone...

Therefore, regularly blow off some sugar water.

Usually soaked apples (traditionally) after the Intercession (October 14), and kept till Christmas - and no beriberi did not know any citrus in the eye is not seeing!

Store-bought apples are beastly, it is better to take my grandmother, not very beautiful, but... that's it. It is necessary to watch, that there was no damage and no reptile-worm don't bite!

Oh, hang on Kiev, let's all go to the Lukyanovka and boom to burst... without the fear of unsanitary conditions, botulism, poisoning and... the overeating, the death of dieting!

Panicked I that does not work, thought and wondered and how the experiment was... the first time...

Ah, the beauty of it! Vkusnaja!