Probably no fruit is more popular than apple. You can buy it at any store at any time of the year. It is actively grown by gardeners in their suburban areas. Apples are a relatively cheap, healthy, and very tasty product. It was this fruit that Eve Adam seduced, and there was something to seduce. A lot can be said about the benefits and dignity of these fruits. But not everyone knows that fresh apples lose their remarkable properties quite quickly. Having processed them thermally, useful properties can be saved much longer. Drying apples at home is an excellent solution to this problem. For this purpose, choose fleshy and juicy apples of late varieties, which have a greater amount of nutrients.
Methods of drying and preparing apples
There are few options, only three: drying in the sun, in the oven, using special drying combines. It doesn’t matter which way you choose, the preparation of apples is the same. Fruits are not beaten, not wormy and ripe. Cutting apples for drying is easy. The core is carefully removed from them and cut into thin slices (finer than 1 cm). To keep the apples light, they are dipped for several minutes in slightly salted water. This will not affect the taste, and the color will remain.
The oldest method that was used before, and even now our grandmothers often turn to it, is drying apples in the sun (it reminds drying). Sliced slices laid out on flat surfaces are exposed to the sun. And begins the natural evaporation of moisture from fruits. Drying must be covered with gauze to prevent dust from getting on them, and also so that insects do not sit down. Drying apples at home in the sun is a troublesome process. To prevent rot from appearing on apples, it is important that they are sunny for several days in a row.
Drying apples at home in the oven is a little easier and faster in this regard. The temperature in the oven must be maintained at the first stage at about 45 degrees, while the door should be slightly ajar. Then the temperature is raised to 70 degrees (sterilization process). Dried apples at the previous (45 degrees) temperature. At the same time, care must be taken so that the drying does not dry out and does not burn. From time to time the fruits are mixed.
Drying apples at home is also carried out in special electrical appliances. Such combines are equipped with heating elements and a fan, due to which the fruits are dried. Apple slices are laid out on special trays. To evenly dry the fruit, the trays must be swapped. The main advantage of such devices is speed. Apple drying can be obtained in just a few hours, and the taste remains the same.
Dry the apples in dry jars, tightly closed with a plastic lid in a dark place. Some housewives use bags specially sewn for these purposes.
Cooked apple drying in the fall will be a wonderful treat on cold winter evenings, it will not only enjoy the taste of apples, but will also help fight seasonal vitamin deficiency.