How to dry fruits

Fruits are a great source of vitamins and various other nutrients. Eating them not only in fresh or canned form, but in the dried. But how do youdry fruit?

Instruction

1. For drying pick slightly unripe fruit. The berries get ripe, but firm, they can be dry as bones, and without them. Dried fruits and berries as possible in the sun and in the oven. From the berries, dried currants, strawberries, strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, viburnum, cranberry and rose hips. Fruit - grapes, apples, pears, peaches, apricots, plums, cherries, figs.
2. Pay particular taking pictures temperature, for each kind of fruit. From temperature depends on the quality of the final product. First, the fruits need podvyalit (45-50 degrees C), then evaporate them from the main mass of water (approximately 70 degrees), and then to bring the humidity to 20-25% and sterilized (about 80 degrees).
3. If you are going to dry fruit in the sun, then pre-soak them for 3-4 hours in the shade. Do not expose the fruit to direct sunlight, place them in a well ventilated place. In this way the fruit will dry in a few weeks. Fruits can not only spread out on the grates or horizontal surfaces, they can also be strung on thread and hang.
4. If you are drying vegetables in the oven or drying Cabinet, open the door frequently or keep it ajar to lower the humidity level inside. Watch out for temperature control.
5. Small fruit dry whole (for example, if you are doing raisins or dried apricots), a major clean from the bones and cut into slices or rings. Fruits with a large bone in the middle cut in half.