Drying cherries for the winter with a bone and without a bone. How to dry cherries and leaves in an electric dryer, oven, microwave, in the sun, in the air group?

Features of drying berries and cherry leaves.

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Continue series articles about drying fruits And let's talk more about the features of drying of cherry berries for the winter at home.

At what temperature to dry cherries and how much at home?

Dried cherry plate without a bone — dried cherry plate without a bone

Depending on the method of drying the berries of cherries, the temperature can be different. For example, in the oven it ranges from 60-80 ℃ and lasts 4-12 hours, and in the fresh air it depends on the summer temperature and takes an average of 5-8 days.

To understand that the berries have dried up, press one of them with your fingers. Your hands should be clean without drops of juice.

And also pay attention to the color of the raw materials. The berry ready for storage until winter acquires a dark burgundy or even brown shades.

How to dry a cherry with a bone and without a bone in an electric dryer?

Dried cherry with a bone on a net of electric dryer — dried cherry with a bone on a net of electric dryer

If you have acquired an electric dryer for the preparation of reserves for the winter, then you definitely made the right choice. In it, the cherry dries faster than in the open air, and its tasty cooking options are greater.

To dry the berries of cherries with a bone, you should:

collect ripe and elastic fruits
rinse them well and leave them in a colander to drain excess water
sort them out by rejecting worm, with damage to the skins
pour in one layer on a net of electric dryer
set the temperature 55-60 ℃ for a couple of hours, and then switch to 30-35 ℃ and wait for readiness

If you decide to dry the cherry without a bone, then the trouble with its preparation and drying will be added. But the taste and quality of the material for future culinary masterpieces will be completely different.

So:

during the revision of the finished raw materials, remove the bones
during drying in an electric dryer three times, change the temperature modes from high to low, as indicated above
be prepared for a longer time process

If you decide to slows down cherry berries in an electric dryer, then you need:

prepare pure high -quality raw materials without a bone
fall asleep it with sugar for juice and leave in a warm room
the remnants of cherry juice to let the colander expire. By the way, the first is mothballed or add for the preparation of summer compotes
boil sweet syrup on the water and fill the cherry
turn off the fire under the pan, let the berries cool down with the syrup
drain the remains of the container and let them drain from the cherries through a colander
send raw materials to an electric dryer
the duration and order of further actions are similar to the previous description with the difference only in appearance, elasticity of cherries and juiciness
be prepared for the fact that berries without a bone dry longer three times

How to dry a cherry with a bone and without a bone in the oven?

A handful of dried in the oven of cherries — a handful of dried in the oven of cherries

An important feature of drying cherries in the oven is a ajar door during the process. It allows the superfluous to disappear quickly, and to flow to the raw materials to fresh air.

The second secret of accelerating the evaporation of moisture from cherries is its preliminary processing.

To do this, use any of these methods:

pour the berries with boiling water
rinse them with a weak soda solution. But then be sure to rinse with cold water

Due to preliminary processing on the surface of the cherries, pores are formed through which moisture will disappear faster.

To prepare dried cherries with a bone, you need to act like this:

wash them thoroughly
lay foil or parchment paper on a baking sheet
pour cherries on top
two hours, languish them at a temperature of 45 ℃
install 60 ℃ until the berries are completely dry. This process will take another three hours

Dry cherry berries without a bone longer. For this:

remove the seeds only from elastic large whole juicy berries, put the rest and either eat, or weld delicious compote
on the baking sheet covered with parchment/foil, put the cherries
further three times change the temperature regimes indicated above for drying cherries with a bone

Drying cherries with a bone and without a bone in an air -grill

Gathered cherries before cleaning and drying in an air -grill — gathered cherries before cleaning and drying in an air -grill

Aerogril is a special device with a heating element that has several shelves for laying out raw materials. You can either buy it ready, or make it at home.

In the second version, the main thing is to install comfortable net shelves and determine the supply of heat.

We will consider the features of the drying of the cherries in the finished device.

As it was already indicated above, cherry with a bone dries faster than without it. Therefore, this moment is present in the Airgril.

So:

take the most juicy and ripe berries
remove the stalks and bones if you are going to dry only the cherry pulp
rinse well and throw it on a colander to drain water
place the berries on the grid so that one layer turns out. For one load, you will need a maximum of 1200 g of raw materials, and at the exit you will receive about half a kilogram
put a toothpick inside the aeogril bowl so that excess moisture evaporates
cover the lid with the cherries and select the drying mode and temperature. It can vary within 45-60 ℃
the duration of the procedure is 30-120 minutes, depending on the initial lines of the cherry. The maximum time will dry the berries without a bone
store the finished product in plastic or cloth bags in the freezer

Drying cherries with a bone and without a bone in the sun

Collected cherry for drought in the sun — collected cherry for drought in the sun

The very first way of drying fruits and berries was natural, that is, in the open air under the sun's rays.

On the one hand, it is the longest in time and troublesome. On the other, the most natural as possible.

The preparation of cherries for drying is carried out similarly to the techniques described above.

Farther:

select a flat horizontal drying surface removed from roads
to protect against aggressive rays of the midday sun, you should install an awning above cherry berries or organize a place in the garden under the trees
for drying cherries with a bone, a wooden sheet, mesh, tray, without a bone are suitable - only fabric, and wrap the berries completely from all sides so that insects do not fly to the juicy incision. In the open spaces of Runet, you will find advice on laying cherries on newspapers that need to be changed daily due to the berry juice heated by it.
when the sun rose in the morning and began to warm, take out the sheets with cherries to dry
in the evening before sunset, be sure to bring the berries into the house so that they do not cool hard
once a day, carefully mix the cherry so that it dries from all sides

when the color of the berries has changed to a darker, check the raw materials by pressing the finger on the cherry. No drops of juice - raw materials are ready for packaging and further storage

Cherry leaves when to collect and how to dry for tea?

Branch of cherry wood with fruits and leaves for collecting and blanks — branch of cherry wood with fruits and leaves for collecting and blanks

In order for the maximum amount of valuables to be preserved in the leaves of cherries, you should collect them in May during the flowering of the tree.

A later collection is also allowed - until the end of fruiting. But in August, for example, it is better not to cut the leaves of cherry for drying, because they become too rude and are worse lend itself to subsequent processing and tea leaves for tea.

To properly dry the leaves of the cherry tree, you should:

on a warm sunny day, cut sheet plates without twigs and legs with scissors. Choose healthy leaves that have not been attacked by insects and wilting
on the veranda, balcony, attic or under the tent, lay out the finished raw material on the horizontal surface
move the leaves several times a day so that they dry better and do not cake
if you decide to dry the leaves of cherries in the device, then set the temperature not higher than 50 ℃
when a cherry sheet easily breaks in the center, then the raw materials are ready
collect the future brewing of healing tea in cloth bags or cardboard boxes

So, we examined the features of drying the berries of cherries both with a bone and without it in different ways, as well as the process of harvesting cherry leaves for therapeutic tea.

Try instead of an extra can of compote or jam dry the fruits of cherries and enjoy them in the winter. Perhaps this type of workpieces will have more traditional conservations.