Instead of store candies it is possible to offer children more useful dish of a home cooking - sweet slices from vegetables or fruit which are called candied fruits.
It is required to you
- - pumpkin – 1 kg
- - orange or a lemon – 1 piece.
- - water – 200 ml
- - sugar – 400 g
- - ground cinnamon (to taste)
- - vanilla (to taste)
- - icing sugar
Instruction
1. Prepare "raw materials" for work. Peel oranges also sunflower seeds. Cut a soft part of pumpkin on pieces, small cubes, plates. Sort oranges on segments. If instead of orange you use a lemon, it also should be cut on several pieces, and it is possible and to replace with citric acid which on this amount of ingredients needs 3 g.
2. Pour water into a pan, add granulated sugar, when stirring bring to the boil. Syrup should be cooked to such state that sugar will completely be dissolved. Lower oranges, pumpkin in syrup, boil about 5-7 more minutes. Remove the received mix from a plate, cool. Skilled hostesses try to cook candied fruits in the evening that for full cooling it was possible to leave them for the night.
3. Repeat all process of cooking two more times with an interval of 8-12 hours. Cast away the pumpkin pieces impregnated with syrup on a sieve or a colander to get rid of syrup. Remove orange-peels. When syrup flows down, lay the pumpkin pieces which became translucent on the baking tray laid by paper for roasting and put in an oven approximately for 4.5-5 hours.
4. Mix powder, cinnamon, vanilla and starch in separate capacity, in this mix roll in the candied fruits dried in an oven. For mix it is possible to use any other ingredients depending on tastes.
5. It is necessary to store ready candied fruits in the dry and net capacity which is covered with parchment. It is possible to use them as in the form of a separate dish, and to add in the crushed look to a stuffing for pies, pancakes, vareniki. It is possible to roll up ready candied fruits in banks with syrup, it turns out very dense. Or to dry sweet pieces on air, and to apply syrup as a compote basis, sauce for fritters, pancakes.