WE WILL TEACH HOW TO DRY PLUMS AT HOME

Dried plums are fairly easy to prepare at home.

They are not only tasty, but also useful for diseases of the heart and blood vessels, increased pressure and problems with digestion.

Due to its taste and healing properties, this dried fruit is widely used in cooking.

How to choose a plum for drying

Such varieties as Hungarian, cherry plum, green leaf and Kyustendil plums are most often used for drying, but other varieties of plums can also be used.

Small fruits are dried whole, large to speed up the process is cut in half and cleaned of seed.

Regardless of the method of drying, the plums are first sorted, taking only strong ripe fruits without damage.

Next, they need to wash and remove the stem. It is necessary to choose fruits of approximately the same size so that they dry out evenly.

Prepared fruit can be dried in the oven, electric drier or in the sun.

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Dry plums in the oven

Before drying, the whole fruit should be blanched for 1-2 minutes in boiling water, in which 2 teaspoons of soda were previously dissolved. Next, the plums are washed with cold water and get wet with a towel.

Blanching is carried out so that small cracks appear on the surface of the fruit, which are necessary for the evaporation of moisture. If the plums were cut in half before drying, then blanching is not necessary.

The easiest way to rid the plums from the stone is to cut them along the stone and turn both halves in opposite directions. So the plum is easily divided into two parts, in one of which there will be a bone. After that, it will be easy to remove.

Drying plums in the oven is carried out in several stages at different temperatures. First, the oven warms up to 50 degrees, a baking tray with plums is placed in it for 5 hours, after which the same time the fruit should cool.

At the second stage, the oven warms up to 70 degrees, the inverted plums continue to dry also for 5 hours. Then the temperature rises to 75 degrees, at which the plums are brought to readiness.

Dry plums in electric drier

For drying in an electric dryer, the plums are blanched in the same way as for drying in the oven.

Fruits are laid out on a pallet in a single layer, if they are cut in half - cut up.

The drying process is carried out in 3 stages at different temperatures:

3-4 hours at a temperature of 45-55 degrees;
3-6 hours at a temperature of 60 degrees;
3-6 hours at a temperature of 75-80 degrees.

At each stage, pallets need to be swapped once an hour. At the end of each stage, the pallets must be removed from the dryer in order to cool the plums to room temperature within a few hours.

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How to dry plums in the sun

In a natural way, plums are dried on wooden sheets. Halves of pitted plums are placed on a sheet not too tightly, cut up so that the plums do not lose juice when drying.

In the sun, plums should be kept for 4-5 days, depending on the size of the fruit.

It is necessary to ensure that no flies or wasps sit on them, otherwise such a product may contain harmful bacteria.

At night, they should be brought into the room, and in the morning to make the air after the dew falls, otherwise the fruit will be damp.

In the process of drying, the plums are periodically turned over so that they dry on all sides evenly.

After drying in the sun, the plums are dried in the shade for another 3-4 days.

Determination of the quality of dried fruit

The readiness of dried fruit is determined by the following features:

when pressed, no cracks appear and juice is not released;
dried fruits should be firm, firm, but should not crumble when pressed;
fruits should not stick to hands.

Store dried plums should be in a well-ventilated area. Fabric bags, paper bags and boxes made of wood or cardboard will be suitable as a container.

Storage in glass jars is allowed, at the same time plums are poured with granulated sugar. Next to the dried fruit should not be placed products with a strong smell, because dried plums can absorb it.

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Plum candy

You can make pastila from plums - a delicious and healthy dessert. The recipes for its preparation are quite varied, but they all boil down to the preparation of plum puree, which is dried in thin layers.

Ingredients Required:

plums - 1 kg;
sugar - 1 cup.

If desired, sugar can be replaced with honey, as well as add your favorite spices: cloves, cinnamon, etc.

Ripe plums must be washed, cleaned of stalks and seeds. Mashed potatoes for pastes can be cooked on the stove or in the oven.

In the first case, cast-iron or non-stick dishes are necessary, at the bottom of which water is poured 1 cm high and sliced plums are poured.

The dishes are covered with a lid, the plums are cooked for 1 hour over low heat, you do not need to mix them.

Then the plum mass is removed from the heat and cooled.

The cooled plums are wiped through a sieve. Puree is boiled with the addition of sugar on a slow fire for 1 hour with continuous stirring.

In the second case, the finely chopped plums are placed in a heat-resistant dish and languished under a closed lid in the oven at medium temperature. After the appearance of the juice, sugar is added to them, the mass is mixed and returned to the oven. When the sugar is completely dissolved, the plums are cooled and rubbed through a sieve.

Finished puree laid out a thin layer on a baking sheet. To avoid burning, it is pre-lined with parchment paper. You should not make a layer of mashed potatoes too thin, otherwise the paste will tear when removed. Too thick mash will dry out poorly. The optimum thickness is 3-6 mm.

The marshmallow is dried in the sun or in the oven. Dry marshmallow in the air should be on dry hot days, entering into a closed room at night. This process usually takes several days. You can also dry the pastilles in the oven, preheated to 40 degrees.

Ready sheets of marshmallow folded into tubes or cut into plates and stored in a cool dry place. Care must be taken to ensure that the pastila does not become damp during storage. If necessary, the drying procedure is repeated.

Regardless of the method of drying, properly prepared dried fruit can be stored for a long time. At the same time they retain all the beneficial properties of fresh plums.