Drying – one of traditional ways to keep mushrooms for the winter. Recommend to dry usually tubular mushrooms among which preference is given white or to a boletus. Unlike aspen mushrooms and birch mushrooms, this fragrant mushroom and in a dried look doesn't lose light coloring.
It is required to you
- - mushrooms;
- - thick threads;
- - gauze;
- - wooden sticks.
Instruction
1. Select for drying strong, young mushrooms without wormholes with light coloring of a tubular part of a hat. Scratch out from them a knife the earth, needles and other forest garbage. It isn't necessary wash the mushrooms intended for a zasushka.
2. Cut mushrooms together with legs on plates no more than a centimeter thick or one and a half centimeters. Sometimes recommend to remove the most lower part of a leg before cutting. If medium-sized borovichka up to five centimeters high got to you, dry up them entirely.
3. In the course of cutting examine mushrooms. Often it turns out that at a boletus with a clean leg a worm-eaten hat. In that case dry only a leg.
4. Boletuses even with a small amount of mushroom hearts don't suit for drying, but they still can be put on use, previously having kept half an hour in salty water. Such mushrooms it is possible to fry or cook from them soup.
5. If there is a dry, sunny weather, mushrooms can be dried in the open air. For this purpose string the prepared boletuses on a thick thread or a fishing line and hang up in well lit place, having covered with a gauze from insects. For the night such snizk of mushrooms should be removed to the house. All process of drying can take about a week.
6. Mushrooms, as well as fruit, it is possible to dry in an oven. Lay dense paper on a baking tray and put on it a leaky layer the clean wooden sticks with a diameter about a centimeter pinned from seasoned wood without pitch. Over sticks lay out cut mushrooms in one layer.
7. It is the best of all to carry out drying in two steps. Put a baking tray with mushrooms in the oven warmed to fifty degrees. The door of an oven has to be slightly opened. In three hours of such processing take out a baking tray and let's mushrooms cool down.
8. The second stage of drying is carried out at a temperature not higher than seventy degrees at an open door of an oven.
9. If you dried mushrooms on the street, but weather deteriorated, finally dry them in the oven warmed to fifty degrees.
10. Well dry-through mushroom it is possible without efforts to pull down, it has to be a lung and bend slightly, but not crumble. It is necessary to store mushrooms in glass jars with covers. It is possible to keep boletuses in sacks in the cool and dry room.