Dried cherries – useful fragrant delicacy. They can be eaten and just like that, to a vprikusk, it is possible to cook from them compote, to add to pies and sauces. Dried home-made cherry won't give you unpleasant surprises in the form of undesirable preservatives or excessive persuasive sweet. The harvest prepared thus can be stored at the room temperature about half a year.
It is required to you
- cherries;
- fruit knife;
- 1 tsps of powder ascorbic acid;
- water;
- pan;
- skimmer;
- the screen for drying or a baking tray;
- baking paper.
Instruction
1. Select the cherries which don't have any defects – dark stains, dents, the burst peel. Carefully wash up them flowing water. Remove shanks and dry berries.
2. Cut each cherry in half – the less size, the fruit will be dried up quicker, besides it is so easier to remove a stone.
3. Mix ascorbic acid with warm water. Track that powder was completely dissolved. Cool water to room temperature. Lower the prepared cherries in solution from water and vitamin C. You hold them 5 minutes there. Accurately pull out a skimmer. Such procedure will prevent darkening of berries and will keep their beautiful color.
4. Drying of cherry on uliyets hot and dry weather it is possible to dry cherries on the street. For this purpose the special screen will be required. Spread out cherries the cut-off parties up on a gauze of the screen and close a frame. You take out the screen with cherry to the oven heated to 160ºС.
5. Drying of cherry in a dukhovkezastelita a baking tray baking paper. Spread out cherry halves the cut-off parties down. Heat an oven to 165ºС. Put in it a baking tray with berries. Close a door of an oven not up to the end, leave a small crack for air circulation. Maintaining the specified temperature, you dry cherry 3 hours. Then reduce temperature to 135ºС and you dry berries 16-24 more hours.