Apples contain a large amount of sugar, vitamins and mineral salts. Since not everyone consumes sugar, you need to think about how to prepare apples for the winter. The most suitable method is drying, but not every apple variety can be suitable for this purpose. The most suitable variety for drying is sweet and sour apples of white or yellowish color with a hard and thin skin. Stock up on fruits and berries for the winter, thus you will avoid winter and spring beriberi.
It is necessary
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- Knife,
- metal tube,
- apples,
- baking sheet.
Instructions
Step 1
Before drying, you need to prepare and sort the apples. To do this, it is better to take special sweet and sour varieties of apples, from which the best dried fruits are obtained. Select whole apples that are free from defects and not wormy. Wash whole apples thoroughly to avoid poisoning from chemicals used in horticulture and agriculture.
Step 2
If you remove the core from the apples and cut off a thin layer of the skin, the water will quickly evaporate and they will dry faster. Any stainless steel tube can be used to remove the core. But if you don't have enough time, you can simply cut the apples into circles and dry, this way you will save a lot of the nutrients contained in the core and skin.
Step 3
There are several ways to dry apples, one of them is sun drying. To do this, cut the apples into slices or circles and lay them out in an even layer on a flat surface, this can be a table covered with a clean cloth, a baking sheet or mesh. The air temperature must be high enough, otherwise the apples may not dry out, but simply simply rot. Apples should be dried at right angles to sunlight. You can string small apple slices on a strong thread and also hang out in direct sunlight, so they will take up much less space.
Step 4
The second way to dry apples is in the oven. Spread the sliced apples evenly on a baking sheet. At the initial stage of drying, set the temperature to 50 degrees, so the apples will begin to wither. If you turn on the high temperature immediately, the surface of the apples will be covered with a crust and this will further complicate the evaporation of moisture. Gradually increase the temperature in the oven to 70 degrees, the moisture will begin to evaporate a little more intensely. At the final stage of drying, the temperature must be lowered again to 50-60 degrees and the apples must be finally dried. Open the oven door from time to time to remove moisture from the air. The whole process of drying apple slices takes about 5-6 hours.
Step 5
After the apples are completely dry, put them in glass jars with tight-fitting lids or pack them in plastic bags and tie them tightly. Thus, apples can be stored for many years.
