And to give them a marketable appearance, they produce additional (and not always healthy) treatment, and even tint it.

One of the oldest proven methods for preparing winter fruit supplies is drying. This is a simple matter, quite accessible to everyone.

You can dry pears outdoors in the sun, in a gas or electric oven, electric dryer and even in a microwave oven.

At the same time, in order to get a high-quality result, it is necessary to carry out all stages of drying correctly.

The most suitable pears for drying are hard and slightly unripe. Their flesh should be dense, not very juicy, it’s good if there are “stony cells” in it, that is solid inclusions.

It is better if there are few seeds in the pear, and the seed chamber itself takes up little space. It is not recommended to dry viscous-tasting fruits; you will not like their taste.

Sweeter summer or early autumn varieties with medium-sized fruits are preferred. Although, to obtain a sweet drying, sugar is allowed in the process of its preparation.

Pear varieties such as Lyubimitsa Klappa, Limonka, Forest Beauty, Victoria, Zaporizhzhya, Ilyinka, Bergamot, Aromatnaya are very suitable for preparing dried fruits.

Pear pre-treatment before drying

If you decide to dry the pears, try to do this without delaying. Collected pears should not be stored for more than two days, as they gradually soften and become unsuitable for drying.

The process of preparing pears for drying is the same, regardless of the selected drying method (open air, oven, electric oven with air grill, etc.).

To begin, boil water in a saucepan or in a basin. If the pears are unsweetened, add some sugar to the water.

Sort the fruits by maturity, remove the damaged areas, rinse them with running water.

For drying, rotten fruits that are frostbitten or damaged by diseases or pests are not suitable,   so strongly discard them.

Dip clean and dried fruits in boiling water and cook for 10-15 minutes, depending on whether they are ripe or green, but only until they are soft.

Let the pears cool completely. Then cut them into slices and place them on the container in which they will be dried.

Large pears and wild game have their own nuances in cooking

It is customary to cut large fruits into slices about 1 cm thick, medium ones cut in half or in four. So that they do not darken outdoors, they are immersed in a 1% solution of citric or tartaric acid. The slices are blanched in boiling water for 5-7 minutes.

The small animal is collected when it falls from the trees, put in a box or bucket and wait until the fruits darken and their skin becomes brown. In this case, the pears become more sweet and aromatic, some tartness and bitterness disappears.

The pear skin is usually not peeled (the exception is a particularly hard cover), and the core is not removed. It is believed that such pears have a more interesting flavor. But if you plan to use the fruits as a cosmetic product, like a scrub or a mask for the face and body, they should be cleaned of peel and seeds.

Natural drying of pears

A baking sheet, a tray with slices of pears or a sieve must be placed in a quiet, calm place, well lit by the sun, away from roads and dust.

Try to install a container with pears at an angle, so that they are provided with the longest possible lighting. A good way out for residents of the private sector is the roofs of houses.

Pears should be dried in the sun for two days. At night, the "semi-finished product" is cleaned into the house, previously covered with plastic wrap.

After two days, the fruits are transferred to the shade and dried for another 2-3 days. For uniform drying, pears should be turned over periodically.

Some hosts pressed half-dried slices of pears into a thin layer, squeezing them with two boards. Then string on the thread and in this form is dried.

So that the dried product has a good color and is better stored, sometimes a sulfuric acid solution or fumigation with sulfur dioxide is used in the drying process. But this requires special facilities and safety precautions, because do not breathe this gas.

How to Dry Pears in the Oven

Because the weather does not always allow you to dry fruits in the fresh air, sunlight can be successfully replaced with units available in every modern kitchen, whether it be an oven, an electric dryer or a microwave oven.

In the oven, pears are dried on a baking sheet, in one layer, first at a temperature of 55-60 degrees.

This avoids cracking of the lobules and peeling of the peel. After two hours, the temperature was brought to 80 degrees.

Then, when the fruits begin to decrease in volume, the temperature is again reduced to 55. This is the final drying temperature.

The time of this procedure depends on the size of the starting material: it takes 18-24 hours to dry whole pears, and the slices are ready after 12-16 hours.

How to dry pears in an electric dryer and microwave

In an electric dryer, which consists of several lattice layers, a significant portion of pears can be dried overnight.

In this case, the fruit or pieces do not even need to be turned over; everything is provided for by the technology: the trays are uniformly blown with warm air.

Microwave drying pears is one of the fastest ways to cook them.   But not universally approved. This process takes no more than two to three minutes per serving.

The main thing here is to prevent the fruits from overdrying or even turning them into unsuitable coals. Washed and cut into slices or cubes of pear, without a core, lay on a plate pre-coated with a piece of cotton or linen cloth.

Program the microwave for 2.5 minutes and 200 watts. If you find that during this time the pears are not yet dry, put them in the microwave for another half a minute.

Properly dried fruits do not break when bent or squeezed; they are soft and elastic, when pressed with a finger they spring. Rigid pears are only in one case: if you dried completely unripe fruits or carrion.

Until the future harvest ...

Dried fruits can be stored tightly packed and closed in a glass or wooden container, or they can be poured into a linen bag and put in a dry cabinet. Of course, you should not forget about winter supplies: they can become damp, moldy, or even rot.

There is also the danger of the appearance of bugs or larvae of fruit moths that can spoil a delicious treat.

To prevent this from happening, at least once a month inspect the dryer, it will not be superfluous to someday shake it on a baking sheet and dry it again in the oven at a temperature of 50 degrees.

With prolonged storage, the pears dry and harden. Before use, put them in a heated oven saturated with steam (you can put a container of water) or hold it a little in a steam bath. Dried fruits are steamed and again become soft and tasty.

For cosmetic purposes, dried fruits are ground in a coffee grinder and stored in a dry, dark place. Pear "powder" with sugar and cinnamon is used to add to cereals or toppings of pies.

You can dry pears in different ways, the main thing is to decide and choose the most suitable way for yourself. And if you do this, adhering to the above tips, the result will justify the effort. Your winter table will be much richer, tastier and healthier, and your body will survive the harsh time much easier.

In winter, sometimes I want something summer, reminiscent of a vacation, the sun, greenery! Therefore, each jar of jam or pickled cucumbers, compote or jam becomes a precious drop that adorns cold winter days.

Vitamins for the winter

Another piece of summer can be dried fruits and vegetables. How to dry pears, apples, apricots, our distant ancestors also knew. They used the most affordable method - using the sun. Preparations from pears, fruits, berries, vegetables retain a significant part of the useful substances of the original product, do not require special equipment in the cooking process or special storage containers.

The right choice of pears

How to implement it? Pear billets for the winter require thoughtful selection of source material in compliance with the following rules.

1. Summer and early autumn pear varieties are used, winter varieties are not suitable.
2. The use of varieties with an astringent taste is undesirable - they hardly tolerate heat treatment.
3. Fruits should not be ripe, ripe, juicy, sweet fruits with a dense core are needed.
4. You can use wild pears, however, it should be noted that the fruits should fall from the tree themselves, they should not be plucked. Before drying, wild pears need to be dried as a whole in the air and proceed to processing after they turn brown - this will save the game from the bitter aftertaste.

Preparation of pears for drying

Before drying the pears, they need to be prepared. Fruits are thoroughly washed, wiped dry, cut in half, after which they are removed from the core and cut into pieces of approximately the same thickness. When slicing fruits, one should take into account that the thinner the slices, the less time it will take to dry them. If you want to get dried fruits from quarters or halves of pears, you will have to use an oven, since it is almost impossible to guarantee the complete drying of large pieces under the sun. Pear billets for winter usually have a thickness of up to one centimeter before drying.

Air drying

Prepared fruits are laid out in a single layer on a flat surface both in an open place and in any fairly hot room (for example, an attic, attic, summer kitchen). When drying pears in the open air, make sure that the selected place is removed from parking lots, garbage cans, animals and other environmentally unfavorable factors.

The process itself takes from several days to a week, since you need to dry the pears before they dry completely, otherwise mold will appear on them over time. The first days of a pear must necessarily be under direct sunlight, subsequently this is not so important. During the whole time of preparation of dried fruits, they must be periodically turned over to achieve uniformity of drying.

Drying pears in the oven

Sliced ​​pears are laid out in a single layer on a baking sheet, which is placed in a preheated (60 degrees) oven. In this mode and with the oven door tightly closed, the pears are dried for 2 hours, after which the temperature rises (80 degrees). In the future, fruits are monitored for preparedness every half an hour or an hour. Sometimes (with coarsely chopped fruits) the whole process can take up to 24-25 hours of continuous drying.

It is worth using the oven in the manufacture of dried fruits or not - everyone decides independently. On the one hand, the preparation time of the final product is reduced significantly, on the other hand, most of the vitamins are destroyed at the last stage of drying, and the integrity and appearance of dried pieces of pears are often violated due to too high a temperature.

Drying pears in an oven

A drying cabinet can be purchased ready-made or made independently. In the latter case, the walls of the future cabinet are formed from two sheets of roofing iron, to which iron shelves for installing sieves are fastened with rails and screws. The floor of the dryer is made of the same material as the walls, with the obligatory presence of at least eight holes of approximately 10 x 5 cm for access of hot air. Smaller holes are drilled and in the lower part of the cabinet walls - for access to fresh air. From the inside to the rear wall of the cabinet, under the two uppermost shelves, a U-shaped cartridge (with holes) with a hole in the side wall is attached - a thermometer is introduced here to monitor the temperature during drying. A lid is mounted on top of the oven, which can be removed if necessary. Most often there are (and are made) cabinets 1 meter high and 70 cm wide, designed to accommodate 7 screens with vegetables or fruits.

The drying cabinet is installed on a gas or electric stove (in principle, any heating installation can be used) on horizontally laid bricks with gaps between them necessary for the flow of air.

In the process of drying, monitor the temperature: it should not exceed 40 degrees; if the product is too wet on the upper sieves, the amount of pears on all sieves or the quantity of sieves is reduced. In time, such a process is comparable to drying in the oven.

And the last - regardless of how to dry the pears, they need to be stored in a warm place, preferably next to heat sources (this will prevent the appearance of pests) and always in fabric bags. Polyethylene for storage of dried fruits is categorically not suitable. Let dried vegetables and fruits delight you in the cold winter.

I want to tell you about what an amazing and convenient thing a vegetable dryer is just a lifesaver in the summer and unearthly enjoyment in the winter.

Every housewife, and especially the mother of young children, always wants to feed her child the most delicious and healthy food. It is difficult to find a more useful storehouse of vitamins in winter than dried fruits, because it is an absolutely natural and most fortified product.

Today we will harvest ripe, juicy summer pears, nourished by the aroma of the sun and the summer breeze. You know, what pride I feel from the fact that my child does not have a snack on walks with some store cookies, but with pieces of sweet and very healthy pear prepared by my mother !!!

Drying pears at home is very simple. The main condition for drying the pears is excellent - the harvest should be made only from ripe and good fruits.

1. Pears should be washed very carefully, since it is possible that when she was hanging on a tree, a familiar fly could fly to her branch. Give water to drain.

2. Getting to the cutting. The smaller you can cut the pear, the tastier the final product will be and sooner it will be ready.

3. Spread pears cut into thin slices on a dryer sieve. We put it quite tightly, because with the first blow of the fan, the liquid will begin to disappear and our slices will become smaller and thinner, leaving only tasty and healthy substances in us.

4. I have a dryer power of 400 watts, it took about 5-6 hours to dry a summer pear, a temperature of 50-60 degrees. This is for a caramel crust. At the same time, somewhere in the middle of the time, I rearranged the floors, changing the lower to the upper one, so that all slices would be dried evenly.

5. The drying of the pears is completed. Store dried pears in a glass, hermetically sealed container. Best in a dry, cool place. And with the first frosts, immunity can be strengthened with sweet slices of a summer pear. Be healthy!

But, despite their rich taste and the presence of a large number of vitamins and minerals, their somewhat problematic   dry at home.

"Home" dried fruits are most often made from pears, the preparation of which at home is not difficult for both experienced and novice housewives. About drying pears in the oven   and will be discussed in this article.

general information

Is it possible to dry pears in the oven? Before moving on to basic rules   drying pears in the oven, you need to find out the following: are pears in general subject to drying in a gas and electric stove?

Of course, pears can be dried in the oven, both in a gas and electric stove. The method of preparing dried fruits in this way will take much less time than. One thing to consider some features   drying pears in the oven, which will be discussed below.

Of course, in our time, when the modern world is replenished daily with more and more technological innovations, the evolution of household appliances also does not stand still.

Over the past twenty years, kitchen appliances have replenished with such innovations as: an air grill, a sandwich maker, a waffle iron, a yogurt maker, a slow cooker, a double boiler, a pressure cooker, a toaster, an electric dryer for vegetables and fruits, and much more. On our site you can familiarize yourself with that.

Naturally, along with this, such a traditional method of drying fruits as drying in the oven somewhat outdated. Every modern housewife wants to have more and more in her kitchen new kitchen appliances, which significantly facilitates and saves time when cooking.

Therefore, more and more housewives are turning to a more modern way, like. But since not everyone can afford to get all these quite expensive items   of small household kitchen appliances, one has to be content with the method that has been established for centuries, drying pears in the oven of the stove.

Fundamental rules

How to dry pears in the oven? First of all, you should pay attention to the pears that you plan to subsequently dry.

For a successful drying procedure, fruits should be selected. with hard flesh without pronounced sour tastebut. Of course, the fruits should be well ripened and sweet.

For the drying procedure, it is best to select such varieties of pears as: “Forest Beauty”, “Favorite of Klapp”, “Lemon”, “Zaporizhzhya” and “Victoria”.

Put the pears on a baking sheet only on the bed parchment paper. This is necessary so that the juice flowing from the pears languishing in the oven does not drain and does not come into contact with the baking sheet material.

Pears can be both peeled and left “in their clothes”. It depends only on purely individualtaste qualities. If you come across pears of hard varieties, you must first throw them in boiling water and boil for 5 minutes. It is very important not to spoil the overall drying result.

Step-by-step instruction

Now we will try to describe in more detail the procedure for drying pears in the oven for the winter.

You can learn how to cut pears properly, at what temperature pears should be dried, how to determine the readiness of dried pears, and much more, you will learn by reading the information below.

How long (hours) to dry the pears in the oven? Drying time   pears directly depends on what form the fruits are dried in the oven. If whole pears flaunt on your baking sheet, then it will take 18-24 hours to completely dry them.

If you prefer to cut the pear into slices before sending it to dry, then the result can be expected after 12-16 hours. In both cases, the pear drying procedure is not a very long and time-consuming process. And most often it takes less than a day.

At what temperature should the pears be dried in the oven? The heat temperature during the drying process of pears changes three times. Therefore, we denote the drying process in three stages:

1. First stage. For the first time, sending pears to the oven, you should set the temperature corresponding 55 ° С ... 60 ° С   and keep them in the oven at least 2 hours.
2. Second phase. After the set time, the pears should be mixed and the temperature increased up to 80 ° C.
3. The third stage. After the pears begin to decrease in size, they should be mixed again and again reduce the temperature to 55 ° C ... 60 ° C. This will be the final indicator at which the drying process is completed.

How to determine readiness? When the deadline for the drying process of pears comes to an end, you need to arm yourself with an ordinary fork, which will help us determine willingness   our fruits.

Poke any pear with it and if after that you notice that from the pear dripped juice   or any other liquid, it is necessary to leave the pears to dry in the oven, from time to time checking their readiness with a fork.

Nuances

How to dry large pears? Large pears should be cut into slices 1 cm thick. Medium-sized fruits are cut in half or quarters. In order to avoid oxidation and darkening of the pears after contact with the environment, the pears must be washed with a solution citric acid.

If you come across solid fruits, then before you send them to the oven, they must be dip in boiling water   and boil for 4-5 minutes.

How to dry whole pears in the oven? Can be dried whole pears. Conventional varieties of pears are slightly different from wild fish in the way they are dried.

The wild pear is harvested when the ripened fruits begin to fall to the ground. After that, it is put in a box and left to be stored. in a dark, cool place   until the peel of the fruit darkens.

Darkening of the skin of the fruits indicates that the fruits have become sweet, juicy and fragrant. Unlike large pears, the game is dried whole fruitswithout cutting it. It is also not recommended to peel and core. Wild pear fruit is believed to have a brighter and more pronounced flavor.

How to dry pears in the oven? You will learn from this video how to make dried fruit from pears using an oven, by all means:

Electric stove

How to dry pears in an oven electric stove? Drying pears in an electric oven practically no different   from the procedure for drying pears in the oven of a gas stove. All basic rules and actions remain unchanged.

The only nice feature and plus of the electric oven is that its design provides for two types of heating: lower and upper.

In a gas stove, the oven has only one type of heating - the bottom. Therefore, based on these considerations, the drying process will be more comfortableif using an electric oven.

Convection mode

How to dry pears in a convection oven? As in the case of an electric oven, the preparatory process and the procedure for drying pears in a convection oven will not be any different from the procedure for drying pears in a conventional gas stove oven. Simple, convection mode makes it easy and makes the drying process easier and less nervous.

After all, you will no longer have to worry that pears may burn or stick   to the baking sheet.

The presence in the oven convection mode (fan) provides uniform distribution   temperatures for all areas of the future dish.

Therefore, as in the case of baking, which in the convection mode   baked evenly, and the pears will be evenly dried, thanks to this mode.

Recipes

Oven-dried pears and apples in sugar syrup

Ingredients:

• pears - 1 kg;
• apples - 1 kg;
• sugar - 150-250 g;
• citric acid 2-4 g;
• 1 liter of water.

Cooking method: for starters, you should choose fruits that match the taste and structure of the fruits that need to be dried. Information about what pears and apples should be by consistency and maturity can be found by going up the arrow.

Above, we have already described in detail what fruits should be selected for drying. Next, thoroughly wash the fruits and put them on paper towels, leaving them in this position for as long as possible.

Very importantso that pears and apples are as dry as possible before they get into the oven.

After our fruits have cooled, they should be cut depending on their sizes. Larger and larger fruits are cut into slices, smaller and medium-sized fruits are cut into halves or quarters.

Then you should put the cut fruits for a few minutes in cold water, after adding to it citric acid. After our apples and pears have absorbed some citric acid, you need to boil them for a few minutes in sugar solution. Cover the baking tray with parchment for baking and lay out the cut fruit in a thin layer on the parchment.

After such fairly simple frauds, we send our fruit to the oven, having previously set temperature of 80 ° C ... 85 ° Cand after wilting the temperature follows reduce to 50 ° C ... 60 ° C   and at this temperature, leave to dry our pears to the end.

Due to the fact that before sending our pears and apples to dry in the oven, we boiled them for a few minutes in a sugar solution, pears are obtained very tasty and sweet! About that, you can learn on our site.

The process of drying pears in the oven is not so energy consuming and labor intensive   process as it may seem at first glance.

Drying pears at home in the oven does not take much time and effort from you, but rather gives enthusiasm and cheerfulness. It's so nice to please your loved ones and loved ones, giving them delicious emotions and health.

The main thing is not to be lazy, and if you have never in your life tried to dry pears in the oven, then be sure to do it! Dried pears in the oven are obtained very tasty and sweet. Treat yourself to sweets without harm to the figure and with health benefits!