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The recipe for salting honey agarics for the winter under oppression will allow you to prepare a fragrant and tasty winter preparation. The hot method of pickling is more often used, these delicate mushrooms have an excellent taste, and do not need to be soaked for a long time. Keeping honey agarics under oppression in a warm room starts the fermentation process, fermentation takes place, which improves the taste of the finished product.
How to salt honey mushrooms under oppression
For cold and hot salting of honey agarics under oppression, you will need an enamel or plastic container, a bend, a clean cotton cloth and products:
- fresh mushrooms;
- drinking water;
- salt and garlic.
To taste, you can add other spices during hot salting - bay leaves, dill umbrellas, peppercorns.
When the product goes through the natural fermentation process under pressure, it is placed in clean sterilized jars and covered with tight plastic lids.
The duration of cooking honey agaric under pressure depends on the method of salting. With cold mushrooms, they stand for 30-40 days under load, only after that they can be eaten. The hot cooking method is faster, the mushrooms acquire a characteristic pleasant taste and aroma in about a week from the beginning of salting.
Recipes for salted mushrooms under oppression
In a cold way, it is better to salt the mushrooms with a bitter milky juice. After soaking, they lose this aftertaste and become pleasantly sweet and aromatic. In a salted and fermented product, lactic acid fermentation occurs during the enzymatic process. This acid is already the main preservative.
The hot method of salting is perfect for all types of honey agarics. With raw cold, when the mushrooms are salted and then wetted, they turn out to be very aromatic and tasty. For long-term storage, the finished product is laid out from buckets and pans, in which salting took place, in glass jars. When it's already cold outside, it is better to salt the mushrooms in the room, do not leave them on the balcony, you need them to ferment.
In order for honey mushrooms to swim in brine, you need to add a lot of salt (about 200 g per 1 kg of product), this has a bad effect on the taste. Only 50 g of salt per 1 kg of product is added to the soaked ones.
Salting honey agaric under oppression in a cold way
The cold cooking method includes two stages - first, they are soaked, and then honey mushrooms are salted in a saucepan under oppression for 6-7 weeks. Fresh mushrooms collected in the forest are cleaned of debris and washed, large ones are cut into pieces.
Description of the steeping process:
- Prepare raw materials for salting by soaking in clean water. This triggers enzymatic processes, due to which the product is reduced in size by about 3-4 times, changes color and smell, and becomes elastic.
- For soaking, the mushrooms are put in a bucket, poured with clean water, oppression is placed on top - a plate or lid and a jar of water. For fermentation to be successful, the air temperature must be at least + 18 ... + 20 ° C.
- When soaking, the water is changed at least 1 time per day. The process time depends on the air temperature: if it is hot, fermentation can successfully take place within a day, at + 18 ° C it stretches for 3-4 days.
The soaked mushrooms are washed in a bowl of clean water, and they proceed directly to salting. A step-by-step recipe with a photo will help to properly cook honey mushrooms under oppression. He will need the following products:
- soaked mushrooms - 1 kg;
- rock salt - 50 g;
- garlic - 2-3 cloves.
Salting description:
- Honey mushrooms are squeezed out of moisture and weighed. Salt is added 50 g per 1 kg, if you put less, they sour.
- Peel and chop the garlic. Pour salt into a plate.
- Honey mushrooms are placed in a salting container (enamel pan or plastic bucket) in layers, sprinkled with salt and garlic. On top, you can put mushroom legs, cut off from large specimens before soaking. Then it will not be a pity if, with a lack of brine, a plaque appears on the surface.
- Cover the top with a clean cotton cloth larger than the diameter of the pot or bucket. They put the bend in, and put the load. Leave on the balcony for 30-40 days.
- When the mushrooms are salted, the fold is removed by gently lifting the fabric by the edges. If a little white bloom appears on the canvas or bucket, it should not get on the mushrooms.
Then the finished product is laid out in sterilized jars, tamping tightly. Mold grows quickly without brine, so there should be no free space between the mushrooms.
The top of the tightly filled jar is covered with a cotton cloth dipped in vodka, and a fold is made of two pine chips folded crosswise. The length of chips for a 3-liter can should be 90 mm, for a liter - 84 mm, for a half-liter - 74 mm. The chips and lid are also moistened in vodka for sterilization, this will keep mold from growing, provided the jars are tightly closed and the brine will not evaporate.
Honey mushrooms for the winter under oppression in a hot way
The hot method of salting involves preliminary cooking, and then holding under pressure.
Step-by-step description of the process:
- The washed mushrooms are put into a saucepan, and poured with boiling water so that it covers them.
- Cook for 20 minutes in clean water, no salt.
- Leave to cool, then wash. All mushrooms are highly boiled down, decreasing in size by about 3 times.
- The washed product is wrung out and weighed.
- The amount of salt is determined after weighing at the rate of 50 g per 1 kg of boiled honey agaric.
- Add peeled garlic to taste, mix with salt and mushrooms or lay them in layers, put a cotton rag on top, bend and oppression.
There are such mushrooms of honey mushrooms, cooked under oppression, you can already the next day, but it is better to wait until the fermentation process takes place, a pleasant sour taste will appear. After a week, the product is ready, you can put it away for long-term storage.
Terms and conditions of storage
Good housewives know how to keep the started jar of pickled mushrooms in the refrigerator so that they do not become moldy. You need a cotton cloth that is twice the diameter of the can. The cloth is moistened in vodka and the container is covered on top.
Before putting honey mushrooms from a can on a plate, remove the fabric and then put it back in place. Vodka does not affect the taste. It is not necessary to put oppression on top, it is enough to cover the jar with a tight plastic lid and refrigerate.
It is better to store such preservation in a cool dark place, closer to the floor, and not on the mezzanine, where the air is hot. It is advisable that the temperature in the storage area is not higher than + 25 ° C and not lower than zero. It is advisable to check the condition of salted mushrooms at least once a week. They can be stored in the room for no more than six months. In a refrigerator or cellar at + 5 ° C, the shelf life is extended to 1 year.
Conclusion
The recipe for salting honey agarics for the winter under oppression will help keep them for a year until the next season. Salting mushrooms is a laborious process. But all the efforts are justified by the amazing taste and aroma of salted mushrooms under the oppression, and the video recipe will help you do everything right.
