Some of us, eating prunes, do not realize that this is a dried plum. Oddly enough, but there are such people. However, everyone knows about the benefits of this fruit in any form. For example, properly cooked prunes are not only tasty, but also quite healthy. You can cook it in different ways, one of them in an electric dryer. This method is fast enough and simple, has many advantages, which we will dwell on. So how to dry plums in an electric dryer? We will understand this issue.
Some information about prunes
It is well known that this dried fruit improves the state of the digestive system, helps to normalize blood pressure, strengthens the nervous system. It has a sweet and sour taste, due to which it combines well with meat, for example, in stuffed duck or chicken. Dried plums are added to ice cream, pastries, fruit salads and other desserts.
How many fresh plums do you need to get one kilogram of prunes? It will take about four and a half kilograms. A bit of information on how to choose plums for the winter for drying. It is proposed to use the fruits of the Hungarian variety, as they have more pulp and less juice. You need to take a plum that is fully ripe, which is about to fall to the ground, of a large size - the prunes will turn out to be more fleshy. It is desirable to dry with a stone. On an industrial scale, due to the slow drying of the plum, it is treated with a soda boiling solution, at home it is pricked with a fork.
Dry plums in an electric dryer, the first option
So we came to the first method of how to dry plums in an electric dryer. We start with the preparation of the fetus: remove the stalks, do the same with the leaves and rinse well. In order to make the drying process faster, we blanch the drain by lowering it in a boiling solution of baking soda for half a minute - and then we rinse it in water. If done correctly, cracks should appear on the entire surface of the fetus. When drying, moisture evaporates. If the plum is large, you can cut in half and remove the seeds. In this case, it is placed on the pallet upward cut. Starting temperature - 40-45 degrees. Set the trays in the dryer and close the lid. The first drying should last 3-4 hours.
At the same time, we change pallets every hour. To get high-quality dried fruit, it is advisable to take breaks for 4-5 hours a couple of times to cool the fruits. Otherwise, juice will flow from them. The second drying - six hours at a temperature of 60-65 degrees, followed by five hours of cooling. The third drying is five hours at a temperature of 70 degrees. Dried plums should be resilient, elastic, soft to the touch and not emit juice when pressed. It is recommended to store dried fruit in linen bags, ceramic or glassware, in a cool place. Plums for the winter are ready.
Dry Plum - Prune
There are three ways to prepare this product. These are: industrial, in several stages, with a gradual increase in temperature to 90 0 ; home - in an electric dryer or oven; quite ancient, in which the plum is dried for three weeks in the sun, along with flies and dust. We cook, as in the previous case, in an electric dryer, but in one temperature mode - 42-45 degrees, as in the hot summer sun.
We make the first call at night, and by morning the fruits are significantly reduced in size. We leave for another couple of days, periodically shifting-sorting plums. Some of them are ready in three to four days. In case of uncertainty, it is better to dry out a bit than to dry out. We leave the dried for a couple of days on a tray, let it dry at room temperature. Then we lay them out in jars, cover them with a paper napkin and bandage them. The entire drying process of one batch takes about two weeks. In the process, since the dryer still works and there is free space, you can add fresh raw materials, or you can dry the bread. Another way has been mastered of how to dry plums in an electric dryer. The finished product may well replace the candy.
Homemade preparations for the winter. Plum - the main product
We have already mastered one of the methods of harvesting our fruits for the winter season. But, as you all well know, plums are stored not only in dried form. Mistresses very often use them for their various workpieces, plums are part of a wide variety of recipes, they make seals. After all, people used to eat these fruits in ancient times. They contain organic acids, such as malic, quinic and ascorbic, as well as galactan, pectin, up to 16% sugar. We will harvest fruit called plum for the winter. Recipes are recommended to save, come in handy.
Cooking plum jam with walnuts
Cooking according to this recipe is, of course, not too fast, but simple enough. Any lover of this fruit can handle it. It is necessary to take one kilogram of sugar for two kilograms of draining. We also take walnuts. We remove the seeds from the fruit, while we try to complete this task so that the fetus suffers minimally.
Instead of the removed seeds, put the pieces of nuts, previously fried. Sugar is poured into the container in which we prepare the dish, and it is placed in the refrigerator for six hours. After that, on low heat we cook the workpiece for 20 minutes. The next day again, at the same time, boil the same 20 minutes. We repeat the operation for five to six days. Having finished cooking, roll the jam in pre-prepared jars.
Plums soaked for the winter
In contrast to the method described above (how to dry plums in an electric dryer), we will make a βwetβ dish - soaked plums. We will use the fruits of "eel", the container can be taken any. We do the filling: we take 10-12 liters of water per 25 kg of plums, granulated sugar - 0.5 kg and salt - 150 grams. Mustard powder - 30 grams. Add kvass extract - one glass, 250 grams of flour mixed in two and a half glasses of water. When laying plums in a container between the layers of fruit, we put celery, mint leaves, cherries, currants, parsnips. Proportions - at its discretion. All this is poured with the prepared liquid, covered with a napkin, put oppression. We keep the week at +20 Λ, then the month - at +4 Λ - +14 Λ. Done.
Cook plum and apricot jam
We continue to prepare plum preparations, the recipes of which, as you see, are numerous. Add apricots to get a special taste. It will take 3.5 kg of plums and 1.5 kg of apricots per two kilograms of sugar.
Free all fruits from the seeds. Cook separately from each other in a small amount of water. After softening, wipe the resulting mass through a sieve or pass through a meat grinder. Can be chopped in a blender. Mix puree with granulated sugar, stirring all the time, cook until thickened. So that the jam does not burn, we make the fire small. Spread hot in jars and twist. You can close the
capron lids, but then it will be necessary to store in the refrigerator at a constant temperature.
Cooking quick jam from plums
So, before us is the plum. Cooking jam from it is a real pleasure. One kilogram of your favorite fruit will require two kilograms of sugar. We scald the meat grinder with boiling water and pass the plum through it to a fine grate. Naturally, before this, the plum was well washed, and then the bones were removed from it.
Pour sugar into the resulting mass and leave for an hour, until the juice is released. Stirring, boil for 20 minutes over medium heat, pack in jars and close them with lids. In the case when the fruits are juicy, it will take longer to cook, determine this by the degree of thickening. If you do not know what to cook from our fruits now, remember how to dry the plums in an electric dryer, keep them in this form until winter, and then decide what to make of them.