House fruit candy - very useful delicacy. The small portion of a fruit candy won't damage even that who keeps to a diet. The dessert turns out very saturated to taste, it contains the vitamins and valuable acids useful to digestion. The best fruit candy is prepared from fruits with the high content of gelling agents - apples and plums.
Plum fruit candy without sugar
If you don't love too sweet desserts, try to prepare a plum fruit candy without sugar. It can be given to tea or to supplement with it meat dishes - for example, a game.
It will be required to you: - 1 kg of plums;
- vegetable oil. Wash out plums of any grade, divide into halves, remove stones. Lay out fruits in capacity for cooking. Add a little water and you cook plums on slow fire until they become soft. Then cool plums a little and wipe them through a sieve together with the formed juice. Again lay out puree in a pan and, stirring slowly, prepare until it decreases in volume twice.
Cover rectangular shapes for pastries the parchment paper soaked with the calcinated vegetable oil. You will expose a fruit candy in the sun for drying. In 3-4 days when weight hardens, take out a fruit candy together with paper and finally dry it on a board under sunshine.
The fruit candy can be dried also in a shadow. If you want to accelerate process, you carry out drying in an oven.
When the product hardens so that it can be curtailed into a tube and not to break at the same time, the fruit candy is ready-to-serve. It can be cut strips or rhombuses, to turn in rolls and to strew with icing sugar.
House fast fruit candy
Those who prefers more sweet fruit candy will like other version of the recipe. For aroma it should be added a lemon to a pureed prunes - the dessert will turn out unusual and very tasty. It will be required to you: - 1 kg of plums; - 1 kg of sugar; - 2 lemons. Wash up plums, remove stones. Put fruits in a pan and pour in a little water. You cook plums on slow fire to softness - fruit have to boil soft half. Shake up weight the submersible blender to uniformity.
If plum juicy, add to them very few water. Dryish fruits will demand bigger amount of liquid.
Pour sugar into fruit puree, mix and you cook mix before full dissolution of crystals. Carefully wash up lemons a brush and hot water, a special knife or a grater remove a dried peel. Squeeze out juice and add it together with a dried peel to a pureed prunes. You cook mix about one and a half hours - it has to decrease in volume and thicken. You watch that future fruit candy didn't burn. Lay a rectangular shape for pastries food wrap. Remove puree from fire and cool a little. Pour weight in a form, let's cool down finally at the room temperature, and then remove in the fridge. Every other day the plum fruit candy is ready-to-serve. It can be cut on layers or small small squares and to strew with icing sugar.