If pears are ripening in your garden, or on occasion you have gained several kilograms of these tasty and healthy fruits, you can seriously think about their harvesting for the winter.
Of course, you can just buy ready-made dried fruit. But in this case their quality is not guaranteed.
Manufacturers, unfortunately, do not always use conditioned fruits; in the total mass, there are often damaged and even dirty fruits.
And to make them marketable produce additional (and not always useful for health) processing, and even tint.
One of the oldest proven ways to prepare winter fruit supplies is drying. This is a simple matter, completely accessible to everyone.
Drying pears can be outdoors in the sun, in a gas or electric oven, an electric dryer, and even in a microwave oven.
At the same time, to get a quality result, it is necessary to carry out all the stages of drying correctly.
The most suitable pears for drying are hard and slightly unripe. Their flesh should be dense, not very juicy, it’s good if it contains “stony cells”, i.e. solid blotches.
It is better if there is not much seed in the pear, but the seed chamber itself takes up little space. It is not recommended to dry fruits viscous on taste, you will not like their taste.
Pear varieties such as “Klapp's Lover”, “Lemon”, “Forest Beauty”, “Victoria”, “Zaporozhskaya”, “Ilyinka”, “Bergamot”, “Aromatnaya” are very well suited for the preparation of dried fruits.
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If you decide to dry pears, try to do it without shelving them. Harvested pears should not be stored for more than two days, because they gradually soften and become unsuitable for drying.
The process of preparing pears for drying is the same, regardless of the method of drying chosen (open air, oven, electric oven with convection oven, etc.).
To begin with, boil water in a saucepan or basin. If the pears are not sweet, add some sugar to the water.
Sort the fruit by degree of maturity, remove the damaged areas, wash them with running water.
Rotting fruits, frozen or damaged by diseases or pests, are not suitable for drying. so strongly discard them.
Pure and dried fruits dip in boiling water and cook for 10-15 minutes, depending on whether they are mature or green, but only until they are soft.
Allow the pears to cool completely. Then cut them into slices and lay them on the container in which they will be dried.
Large pears and dicky have their own nuances in the preparation
Large fruits are usually cut into slices about 1 cm thick, medium cut in half or in four. So that they do not darken outdoors, they are immersed in a 1% solution of citric or tartaric acid. Slices are blanched in boiling water for 5-7 minutes.
Wild grasses are harvested when they fall from the trees, put in a box or a bucket, and wait for the fruits to darken and their skin to turn brown. In this case, pears become sweeter and more fragrant, some tartness and bitterness disappears.
The skin on the pears is usually not cleaned (exception - especially hard cover), and the core is not removed. It is believed that such pears have a more interesting flavor. But if you plan to use the fruit as a cosmetic, as a scrub or face mask and body, they should be cleaned of peel and seed.
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Baking tray, tray with slices of pears or a sieve should be put in a quiet, windless place, well lit by the sun, away from roads and dust.
Try to install a container with pears tilted, so that they provide the longest possible lighting. A good way out for residents of the private sector - the roofs of houses.
Pears should be dried in the sun for two days. At night, the "semi-finished product" is cleaned into the house, pre-covered with plastic wrap.
After two days, the fruits are transferred to the shade and dried for another 2-3 days. To evenly dry the pear should be turned over periodically.
Half of the dried pear slices, some owners are pressed into a thin layer, squeezing them with two boards. Then strung on a thread and finally dried.
How to dry pears in the oven
Because the weather does not always allow the fruit to dry in the open air; sunlight can be successfully replaced with the units available in every modern kitchen, such as an oven, electric dryer or microwave oven.
In the oven, pears are dried on a baking sheet, in one layer, first at a temperature of 55-60 degrees.
This avoids cracking of the lobules and peeling of the skin. After two hours, the temperature is brought to 80 degrees.
Then, when the fruit begins to decrease in volume, the temperature is again reduced to 55. This is the final drying temperature.
The time of this procedure depends on the size of the source material: it takes 18-24 hours to dry whole pears, and the slices are ready in 12-16 hours.
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In an electric dryer, which consists of several layers of gratings, it is possible to dry a large portion of pears overnight.
In this case, the fruit or pieces even do not need to be turned over, everything is provided by the technology: the trays are evenly blown with warm air.
Drying pears in the microwave is one of the fastest ways to cook them. But not all approved. This process takes no more than two or three minutes per portion.
The most important thing here is to prevent the fruits from drying out or even turning them into unsuitable coals. Washed and cut into slices or cubes of pear, without a core, lay on a plate, previously covered with a piece of cotton or linen fabric.
Program the microwave for 2.5 minutes and 200 watts. If you find that during this time the pears are not completely dry, put them in the microwave oven for another half a minute.
Until the next harvest ...
Dried fruits can be stored in a glass or wooden container tightly tamped and closed, and can be poured into a canvas bag and put in a dry cupboard. Of course, you should not forget about winter supplies: they can be damp, moldy or even rotten.
There is also the danger of the appearance of bugs or larvae of the fruit moth, which can foul up a delicious treat.
To prevent this from happening, at least once a month, inspect the dryer, it will not be superfluous to shake it on a baking sheet and dry it again in an oven at 50 degrees.
During long-term storage, pears dry and harden. Before use, place them in a heated oven saturated with steam (you can put a container of water) or hold it for a while on the steam bath. Dried fruits are steamed and become soft and tasty again.
For cosmetic purposes, dried fruits are ground in a coffee grinder and stored in a dry dark place. Pear "powder" with sugar and cinnamon is used to add to cereal or filling pies.
It is possible to dry pears in different ways, the main thing is to decide and choose the most acceptable method for yourself. And if you do this, adhering to the above tips, the result will justify the effort. Your winter table will be much richer, tastier and healthier, and your body will survive the harsh time much easier.
