You will need
- apples;
- pear;
- raspberry;
- strawberries;
- clean paper;
- Newspapers;
- thick cotton thread;
- needle.
Instruction
1
Apples and pears thoroughly. Remove the fruit from the core and cut into slices with a thickness of five millimeters. Berries loop, remove damaged.
2
Nanizhite chunks of fruit on a thick thread, leaving between them small spaces or spread out in a thin layer on sheets of blank paper. The berries are spread out in a thin layer on the sheet of paper, placing it on a stack of Newspapers. Newspapers are needed to absorb moisture.
3
Place fruit and berries in the sun for four days. Can place them under the roof in a well ventilated place: on the balcony or deck. However drying in the shade will take much more time.
4
Every four hours of drying stir the berries and change the wet newspaper to dry. Fruit, laid out on paper, too, need to stir.
5
To drying under the open sky, the fruits and berries did not get dew at night take them in the house.
6
In order to completely dry, the fruit will take from four days to two weeks. The finished dried fruit should be soft, elastic. Dried fruits from apples ideally have a cream color. Properly dried berries, if you squeeze them and should not stick together. In addition, the berries dried in this way, longer retain their medicinal properties.
7
The finished dried fruit put away for safekeeping. Ideally, they should be stored in paper or fabric bags, hanging in a dark, dry well ventilated area at temperature not exceeding 8-10°C. it is Clear that in a city apartment to comply with these conditions of storage is quite difficult. So put the homemade dried fruit in a sealed container and store in a dark place. There they will be protected from foreign smells and moisture.
8
From time to time check stored fruits. If they have mold, you will have to throw them away.
Useful advice
For the production of dried fruit are often used sour-sweet or sour apples.
If the weather is not very suitable for drying fruits and berries in the open air, you can dry them in the oven at a temperature of 50-60°C, stirring every two hours.
If the weather is not very suitable for drying fruits and berries in the open air, you can dry them in the oven at a temperature of 50-60°C, stirring every two hours.