Without a doubt, everyone knows that sweets, chocolates and other sweets are not entirely useful for excessive consumption. But how can one protect, for example, a baby from craving for different goodies? Try to make it at home and offer it a more healthy product - candied fruit. They are especially tasty from the crusts of watermelon and melon. Therefore, in the summer, stock up with the necessary raw materials and get to work. This article describes how to make candied fruit from melon. The cooking technology in each recipe is slightly different, but the main processing principle remains unchanged - the use of strong sugar syrup for cooking and further drying of fragrant pieces.
Candied Melon: Recipe One
Take slightly unripe fruits with dense pulp. Cut the melon, remove the seed core and peel it. Then chop the pieces (about one kilogram) into small narrow segments about four to five centimeters long (in the section one by one centimeter). Scald these slices with boiling water. After that, prepare sugar syrup from three glasses of water and five glasses of sugar. Candied melon will be cooked in it. The recipe provides for hot processing for five minutes in several stages until the melon pieces acquire a glassy consistency. Remove the candied fruit from the solution with a slotted spoon in a colander. After draining, lay a thin layer on sheets or trays. While drying, slices should be sprinkled with sugar. After making ready, shake the sweet white coating. Candied fruits can be stored for a very long time. Use the remaining syrup to make other confectionery.
Candied Melon: Recipe Two
Prepare the fruit pulp (two kilograms) in the same way as described above. Then dip the slices in boiling plain water for two to three minutes to blanch. After that, cool them in a cold solution. Pour the semi-finished product into the pan and pour sugar syrup (two and a half kilograms per liter of water) so that the melon is completely in solution. Leave the mass to infuse for ten to twelve hours. After that, spend two or three stages of cooking for ten minutes each, between which you need to withstand a long period for sugaring. In the last hot treatment, pour a table into the mass. a spoonful of citric acid and a bag of vanillin. Then stretch the slices and dry until tender. How to make candied fruit from a melon in a slightly different way is described below. It will take about the same amount of time to work.
Candied Melon: Recipe Three
Put the fruits (half a kilo) cut into thin slices into a deep bowl and pour hot syrup, which must be boiled in a glass of sugar and half a glass of water. Leave the mass for twelve hours. Drain the melon juice and boil it. Pour the pieces again with this hot solution and leave for twelve hours. Then drain the syrup, and put the candied fruit on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. Put the mold in the oven for five to six hours, while slightly opening the door. The temperature should not rise above seventy degrees. Fresh candied fruit will stick a little. After cooling, they will become dry.
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