When at the end of summer the abundance of fruit shakes imagination, there is a question what to do with all this wealth. Except marinades, jam and other canned food, it is possible to make home-made dried fruits. Then the fragrant compote cooked from these dried fruits will remind you of hot summer in the cold winter evenings.
It is required to you
- apples;
- pears;
- raspberry;
- wild strawberry;
- white paper;
- newspapers;
- thick cotton thread;
Instruction
1. Wash out apples and pears. Remove a core from fruit and cut on pieces five millimeters thick. Touch berries, remove spoiled.
2. To Nanizayta of segment of fruit on thick thread, leaving between them small intervals or spread out a thin layer on sheets of white paper. Spread out berries a thin layer on a leaf of a Whatman paper, having enclosed a baking plate it a pile of newspapers. Newspapers are necessary to absorb moisture.
3. Place fruit and berries in the sun for four days. You can arrange their baking plate a roof in well aired place: on the balcony or an open verandah. The truth drying in a shadow will take much more time.
4. Time at four o'clock stir slowly the drying berries and change damp newspapers for dry. The fruit which are spread out on paper it is necessary to stir slowly too.
5. That on the fruit and berries drying under the open sky dew didn't get, for the night you carry away them to the house.
6. Completely to dry, it will be required to fruit from four days to two weeks. Ready dried fruits have to be soft, elastic. Dried fruits from apples ideally have a cream shade. Correctly dried up berries if to squeeze them, shouldn't stick together. Besides, the berries which are dried up in such a way keep the medicinal properties longer.
7. Remove ready dried fruits on storage. Ideally they have to be stored in the paper or fabric sacks hanging in the dark dry well aired room at a temperature not above 8-10 °C. It is clear, that in the city apartment to meet such storage conditions quite difficult. Therefore place home-made dried fruits in a hermetically sealed container and remove to the dark place. There they will be protected from foreign smells and moisture.
8. From time to time check the stored dried fruits. If on them there is a mold, it is necessary to throw out them.