Candied fruits will become excellent additive both for pastries, and for milk porridges, and for many other dishes. Skilled hostesses know how to decorate by means of candied fruits any table – from everyday to festive.
Candied fruits, the prepared houses – useful and appetizing sweet. They can be recommended as the most suitable delicacy for children if there is no wish to give them harmful candies and rich sweeties.
The main thing in preparation of candied fruits is to stock up with patience. Process of a zasakharivaniye lasts, as a rule, several days. In house conditions it is possible to prepare candied fruits from oranges, lemons, a fig, melons and watermelons, even squash and eggplants will approach. Having tried such sweeties only once, it is already impossible to refuse them.
To prepare carrot candied fruits, the half a kilo of carrots, sugar half a kilo, 1.5 glasses of water, juice of one lemon, icing sugar is required. Clean carrots, cut bars, put in a pan. Fill in carrots with water and put on fire. After boiling you cook 10 minutes.
Get the cooked carrots by means of a skimmer – leave water on fire. Drench carrot bars with cold water. Add sugar to a pan, stir before dissolution. Put carrots in the boiling syrup, boil a quarter of hour and switch off fire.
Leave everything for 10 hours – during this time pieces of carrots will well become impregnated with sugar. After that again boil thoroughly all weight on fire during a quarter of hour and again leave for 10 hours.
Now pieces prosakharitsya properly. Warm up them and add citric acid on a knife tip, boil weight and switch off fire. Get pieces of carrots from syrup, spread out on a baking sheet which should be laid previously parchment. Pour syrup in separate capacity – you will be able to add it to pastries, impregnation for biscuits, to glaze.
Dry candied fruits in an oven at a small temperature, it is possible even to slightly open a door. Roll ready pieces in icing sugar. For storage they can be spread out in dry clean banks and to hermetically close them covers. On the basis of this recipe it is possible to prepare candied fruits from many types of vegetables or fruit.