How to soak raisins before baking, for Easter cake, salad? How to steam raisins, make soft for consumption?

Features of proper washing and soaking raisins.

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Thanks to drying fruits, we have the opportunity to eat delicious and healthy products all year round. However, in our time, the practice of preparations for the winter in the volume necessary for the whole family is lost and often irrelevant. Therefore, we use the benefits of industry, which offers, for example, raisins all year round.

On the other hand, the technology of industrial volumes of product harvesting requires the use of preservatives. They protect the products from diseases, and they significantly increase their storage period.

Let's talk in the article on the methods of proper preparation of raisins for use as an independent dish and ingredient for home baking.

How to wash raisins before use, soaking?

Washed raisins in the bowl and spoon — washed raisins in the bowl and spoon

When you bought raisins and brought it home, be sure to wash it correctly before serving on the table or adding to baking, salads and other dishes.

Prepare:

hot and cold water
a sieve or a colander
washing container
board
spoon for mixing

Procedure:

fold dry grapes in the container and add cold water so that it covers it
stir with your hand or spoon and drain water
put it on the board and sort it out by removing the tails and garbage
pour again into the container and pour hot water. Its temperature should not exceed 60-70 ℃
stir with a spoon
after 10 minutes, drain the water, and throw raisins into a colander
leave it until all the water is draining
dry the damp raisins with a kitchen towel and use it as intended

How to soak raisins in water before baking, for cupcake, cake, casserole, kuti?

Raisins in a container of water are soaked before cooking kuti — raisins in a container of water are soaked before cooking kuti

The first thing to pay attention is is the color of raisins. The lighter it is, with yellowness, the longer you need to soak it in water. Since the product was treated with gray, paraffin and a number of chemicals to give a commodity, your task is to melt this film before adding issues to baking.

Boil water and let it cool a little.
Fold the right amount of raisins in the container and pour hot water. Mix everything with a spoon/wooden stick.
Strain the contents of the container through a sieve, leave raisins to get rid of excess water.
Again put the product into the container and pour hot water so that it covers raisins.
After a quarter of an hour, repeat the action with Sita.
When water ceases to be released from it, use raisins for its intended purpose.

How to soak raisins in cognac before baking?

Raisins with other dried fruits are soaked in cognac before baking — raisins with other dried fruits are soaked in cognac before baking

Cognac will prepare raisins before baking, giving it softness and moisture.

Act like this:

rinse raisins under the tap, sort it out,
pull in hot water for half an hour, strain through a colander,
when all the moisture wucks, pour raisins into a plate and pour a solution of water and cognac. Take a quarter of a glass of alcohol into half a liter of water,
keep in mind that dried fruits are required for softening, at least 2-3 hours,
before adding raisins to the baking, hold in a sieve so that all the cognac moisture of the glass.

How to soak raisins in Roma, wine, vodka before baking?

An alcoholic fluid for soaking before baking is poured into a bowl with clean raisins — an alcoholic fluid for soaking before baking is poured into a bowl with clean raisins

The culinary guru is recommended to neutralize the sulfur film on raisins by soaking in a weak alcohol solution. For example, with vodka.

After thoroughly washing the raisins and drying it on the sieve, put the product in the container and pour warm water with vodka. Take them in proportions for 1 liter of the first 25-30 ml of the second.
After 40 minutes, let the residues of the vodka-water solution with raisins drain.

The next stage in eliminating the results of the pre -sale processing of raisins is to soak it in wine.

Fold dry grapes in containers and pour any red wine to cover dried fruits. In the presence of 2-3 hours, periodically mix the contents of the container, then rinse off the remaining alcoholic fluid from the raisins. To do this, place the latter on a sieve and rinse under running water.
If you soak it overnight or cook it first a couple of days before baking of home goodies, leave a container with wine and raisins in the refrigerator. Be sure to tightly close them with a lid.
If you plan to engage in baking in several stages for a short period of time, pour the right amount of raisins from the container, rinse it and use it.

Rom will share with raisins the aroma, and the taste of the latter will clearly benefit from such a "neighbor".

Focus on the dosages of rum for soaking dry grapes indicated in the recipe. Often it is enough to dilute half the rumor of the rum in a liter of boiled cool water and add dry raisins to the solution.
Leave it to soak for an hour or a month. A longer presence of it in an alcoholic solution involves storage in the refrigerator.
Let the excess moisture with dried fruits on a colander.

How to steam raisins, make soft for consumption?

Raisins flow out on a sieve after steaming in boiling water on the stove — raisins flow out on a sieve after steaming in boiling water on the stove

Alternative ways of softening purchased raisins:

steaming in the oven, double boiler or microwave
heating in a pot of water

In the first version, use the washed raisins with a small amount of water.

Lay dried fruits in one row, then they will steam better.
Leave, for example, in the microwave of raisins in a plate with a covered special lid or food film. In the second case, leave a small hole for evaporation of moisture. Put the timer for half a minute. If the result is not suitable for you, add the same amount of time.
After heating, remove the raisins and let it cool in the container that he was in the microwave/oven.
Then dry it with paper towels.

The second method of softening raisins with realization as follows: