In cold season many suffer from the shortage of vitamins. Solutions of this problem a huge number among which there is an intake of artificial additives and polyvitamins. But why to buy in pharmacy something not real when it is possible to make tasty and cheap for the winter in house conditions remarkable and vitamin-rich, minerals and antioxidants by all favourite berry.
Preparation of plum for drying
Simple option for those who don't love sweet, but want to stock up with prunes for the winter.
You will need completely ripe plums, strong and firm to the touch. Sort them, having excluded the containing rotten sites, soft or overripe. It is better to select the fruits close by the size to provide uniform drying. Wash up plums and dry a dry towel. Surely destem. It is possible to leave stones as they contain the mass of useful substances.
Scalding – the process necessary for the accelerated evaporation of moisture from fruits during which on a thin skin small cracks are formed thanks to what plum is quicker dried up. If you took rather large preparations and cut them in half, this stage can be passed.
Lower plums in the boiling water with the baking soda dissolved in it (approximately a teaspoon by liter) and you boil around one minute. Further plums need to be washed with cold water and to dry a towel or napkins.
Ways of drying of fruits
The most populrny are three options of drying of plum:
- in an oven;
- in the microwave;
- in the sun.
Process of drying takes place in an oven in three stages. The oven heats up to 50 wasps. Plum is displayed on the baking tray covered with paper for roasting. If you cut plums on half, place them a cut up. Further you place in an oven a baking tray with plums on 4-5 h. After this period you get fruits and you leave them to cool down to room temperature approximately on 5 h. Then you heat an oven to 70 wasps and you send a leaf with the plums which are previously turned on other party to 5 h there. Further preparation needs to allow to cool down. At the final stage you warm up an oven already to 75 wasps and you dry until ready.
To dry plums in the microwave, you should watch process constantly. It is better to take the fruits cut in half which don't demand scalding. Pull out stones, lay out plums in one layer a peel down on a flat plate, cover with a paper towel and at an average power to dry 2-3 min. After that get fruits, remove a napkin and again place a plate in the furnace, having established already maximum power. Dry until ready.
The most natural option which is also not demanding scalding is drying in the sun. Plums need to be cut, cleaned from bones, to spread out to sheets of plywood, baking sheets or trays a cut up. It is necessary to watch that fruits didn't spoil and didn't decay. For uniform drying they need to be overturned. For the night it is obligatory to bring to the room. On this process 4-5 days will leave. The final stage is dosushivany plums in a shadow within 3-4 days.