Fresh apricots very useful and tasty. Ripe fruits contain carotene, group B vitamins, vitamin C, RR vitamin, potassium and iron. But how to support the organism with vitamins and minerals when the season comes to an end? Apricots can be dried up and used at all seasons of the year.
It is required to you
- fresh apricots;
- lemon juice;
- cotton tampons with sulfur.
Instruction
1. For drying it is better to choose a little immature apricots. It is possible to dry them in an oven or in the sun.
2. It is possible to dry apricots with stones (dried apricots) and without (dried apricots). Before drying of apricots with their stones just it is necessary to wash up well in warm water. To dry up apricots without stones, they need to be cut in half, to remove stones and to lay quickly in the water acidified by lemon juice that on air they didn't darken. When all fruits are prepared, they need to be taken out from solution and to allow to dry. That apricots when drying didn't darken, they should be fumigated with sulfur. The lattice with the prepared fruits needs to be removed in the closed box, in it to set fire to cotton tampons with sulfur. Fumigating lasts about 3 hours. On 1 kilogram of fruits 2 grams of sulfur will be required.
3. For drying in an oven, on a lattice to lay cotton pure fabric, from above to lay out apricots in one layer. If there is a lot of fruits, it is possible to use several lattices. Temperature in an oven has to be 65 - 70 degrees. That apricots were evenly dried up, they need to be overturned from time to time. When fruits a little dry up, they should be shifted to the baking tray laid by paper. It is possible to stop drying when fruits become elastic, dry and, when pressing, won't emit juice. Preparation time of dried apricots approximately makes 11 - 12 hours.
4. To dry apricots in the sun, it is necessary to take them previously several hours in a shadow on a breeze, and only then to take out in the sun. The processed apricots need to be laid out on a wooden or trellised blank and to dry within 6-7 days.
5. Fruits of apricots still can be dried in such a way - to string them on thick thread and to suspend in well aired place in hot weather. It is impossible to allow hits on fruits of direct sunshine. In such a way it is necessary to dry apricots several weeks.