Obuolių sūris is made from reduced apples, not dairy cheese. AI-generated illustration created for LithuaniaLinks.
What apple cheese is
Lithuania Travel describes obuolių sūris as a firm sweet made from apples cooked down over a long period. Cheese refers to its shaped, sliceable form, not its ingredients.
Buying it as a food souvenir
Apple cheese appears among the edible souvenirs highlighted for Anykščiai. Check the label: this plain recipe contains apples, sugar and lemon, but a bought version may have other additions.
Allow time for drying
Reduce the fruit before shaping it. Drying is a separate stage, so allow several days rather than count only the cooking time.
How to serve it
Cut small slices to eat on their own, or serve alongside rye bread and curd cheese. The apple sweet and the dairy cheese remain separate foods.
Home recipe
Plain stovetop apple cheese
One batch; final weight depends on reduction and drying
Approx. 90 kcal per serving · 1/40 of the batch
Recipe adapted from: Aušra · Tarp vėjo gūsių.
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Includes a 24-hour rest and a drying stage.
Ingredients
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Apple cheese
- 3.5 kg cored and sliced apples, prepared weight
- 500 g sugar
- Juice of 1 lemon
Method
- Mix apples, sugar and lemon juice. Leave for 24 hours to release juice.
- Drain into a heavy pan. Boil the collected syrup until about one-third remains, then add the apples.
- Cook, stirring frequently, until the fruit collapses and the paste stays apart when a spoon is drawn through it.
- Pack into a shallow paper-lined mould, cool and unmould. Dry in clean, dry, well-ventilated conditions until firm enough to slice; turn as needed.
Recipe notes
After the syrup stage, reducing the fruit takes roughly 1 to 1.5 hours; judge by the consistency rather than the clock.
This home recipe is not a validated method for long-term storage at room temperature.
Ingredient information: No dairy or wheat in the listed recipe. Check the labels of bought ingredients.
Energy estimate
Approx. 90 kcal per serving
Reference servings per batch: 40. One small slice, defined as 1/40 of the batch.
Calculation details
Uses all 3.5 kg prepared apples, 500 g sugar and about 48 g lemon juice, divided into 40 reference slices. Drying changes slice weight, so no fixed gram weight is claimed.
Calculated from ingredient quantities and the stated reference serving, rounded to the nearest 10 kcal. Brands, portion size and retained frying fat affect the result.
