Fruit cutting long since is one of the most popular dishes on a holiday table. It both snack for light wines, and maintenance for tea, and light having a snack during a post.
Instruction
1. Choosing fruit for cutting, be especially attentive to their appearance. Because fruit will lie on a table in the ""primitive"" look several hours, and they have to with honor pass this test. That is fruit have to have as little as possible damages on a thin skin and to be very fresh. So, for cutting we choose the freshest, ripe, but at the same time dense and elastic fruit.
2. Surely orient on preparation time of cutting. It is the best of all to prepare it just before the arrival of guests that the cut fruit had to adjoin to air as little as possible. In order to avoid darkening of fruit prepare the lemon cut in half for a sbryzgivaniye of already cut fruit.
3. That fruit managed to be cut thinly, you need very sharp knife. Therefore prepare knives in advance, it is better if it will be several of them. Because during the work with fruit the knives zatuplyatsya very quickly about their thin skin and if we just change knives for sharper, instead of constant sharpening, we will save preparation time. It is very important if cuttings need to be prepared much.
4. Fruit can be cut thin circles, slices, bars. The option of laying can be the following: circles of apples and oranges can be displayed on a dish bottom, on a spiral stacking them in ""turret"", leaving an opening in the middle of a dish. We insert the pieces of firm pears or apples cut by straws or bars into this opening.
5. There is one more option of cutting of fruit - fancy. It is possible to cut fruit thus by means of special graters shredders which are on sale in special shops. Thanks to special devices it is possible to cut out even flowers, and other beautiful figures. Such decorative cutting is called a carving.