Persimmon is a very tasty and healthy product. Its fruits contain fructose, vitamin C, iron, carotene, potassium. Persimmon is recommended for exhaustion, scurvy, inflammatory and female diseases. It is used in diet food, both fresh and dried.
Instructions
Step 1
Persimmons are dried in the sun, as well as in special fruit dryers. Select ripe fruit for drying. They must be tight enough. The soft ones will spread and stick to the sieves. It is better to take berries with white flesh, they look dried more attractive than fruits with dark flesh. The varieties are suitable, both impatient and tart - during the drying process, the viscosity disappears.
Step 2
If you are going to dry the fruit in the sun, cut it off, leaving a piece of a branch in the shape of a T with the stem.
Step 3
Peel the berries with a knife - they will dry faster and will be more tasty.
Step 4
Before persimmon braids or sieve. Cut the fruits into 2-4 pieces, put them on a wicker (sieve) and put them in the sun. Use a stainless steel knife when cutting, otherwise the persimmon will turn black.
Step 5
After the fruits are dry, place them in piles and cover tightly. This is to make them sweat. Sugar crystallizes after drying on the surface of the berries, and they become like candied fruits. Their taste is reminiscent of dried figs.
Step 6
In inclement weather, dry persimmons in fruit dryers. Steam the fruit before drying. It is better to do this in special devices. There is no need to fumigate fresh persimmons with sulfur - it will acquire an unpleasant aftertaste.
Step 7
First, before removing the astringency, carry out drying at a temperature of 50-60 ° C, then increase it to 70-75 ° C. Under these conditions, cut fruits will be ready in 24 hours, and whole fruits in 50-60 hours.
Step 8
Store dried persimmons at 35% moisture, otherwise they will become tough. It is best to store the fruits in boxes, the walls of which are lined in two layers. The first layer is thick paper. The second layer is wax paper or cellophane. The product is stored for a long time.
