Cranberry in sugar – refined and useful delicacy which can easily be made in house conditions. Besides, it is a great way of preservation of the reaped crop. The cranberry keeps up in the fall, begin to collect it in the middle of September, however it reaches complete ripeness by November – with approach of frosts. Such berries – large, juicy, ripe – best of all approach to prepare from them a traditional dessert: a cranberry in sugar.
It is required to you
- - 500 grams of berries of a cranberry;
- - 500 grams of icing sugar;
- - 2 eggs;
- - salt on a knife tip.
Instruction
1. Prepare a cranberry: select large and strong berries, wash out, several times changing water, and then spread out on a paper or fabric towel for drying.
2. To accurately break eggs, to separate the whites from the yolks (yolks won't be necessary). Pour proteins in a big bowl, add a small pinch of salt and by means of a nimbus or the mixer slightly to shake up.
3. Pour out the prepared cranberry in a bowl with protein whips and to mix carefully, trying not to damage integrity of berries.
4. Fill icing sugar on a big flat plate, level on all surface. In the portions to spread the berries of a cranberry moistened with protein and by means of two spoons to roll them from all directions in powder. It is possible to pick up a plate and to shake slightly that berries evenly became covered by a layer of icing sugar.
5. Now sugar coating needs to be dried. For this purpose to spread out berries on a clean dry dish, or on paper for pastries – so that they didn't adjoin with each other, and to leave for 2-3 hours. It is possible to lay out a cranberry in sugar on a baking tray and within an hour to take in the slightly opened warm oven at a temperature not higher than 50 degrees. At last, it is possible to use the electric dryer for vegetables and berries.
6. It is necessary to store a ready cranberry in sugar in the dry cool place. Ideal option for storage – paper containers. Also glass or plastic jars will approach. For bigger safety of glaze each layer of a cranberry can be shifted a tissue.