How to cook candy at home?

Cuccats are tasty and, most importantly, useful delicacy, which can replace sweets and give homemade baking unforgettable fragrance. These are candied pieces of pulp of juicy fruits, berries, some vegetables, obtained as a result of boiling in sugar syrup. Prepare them easily, and for experiments there are quite a few simple recipes. Consider how to cook the candied so that they turn out are really tasty, soft and fragrant.

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Cooking Cuccates - Pre-Processing Products

The first question comes to mind, from which to cook candied. The answer is rather ambiguous - the candied can be prepared almost from any fruit, the taste of which is combined with sugar. For example, they are simply magnificent to taste candied fruits from apples, pineapples, mango, pumpkins, pears, kiwi, beets, citrus, and even from cucumbers. In this matter, it all depends on fantasy and gastronomic preferences.

Picks from which the cooking begins - careful cleaning of the selected fruits:

• Fruits wash, remove bones or seeds.
• Then cut them with slices, cubes, ringlets (shape, taking into account the products used). Size of pieces It is advisable to make a small so that the syrup is better absorbed, and then the drying of the zucats passed faster.
• Elutes Cuccats are made from ginger root or citrus, they must be pre-soaked in clean water for 1-2 days, changing it twice a day. It is necessary to remove bitterness.

Advice! For the preparation of zucats from pineapples, with fruits necessarily remove the peel.

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Cooking Cucuts - Preparation of Sugar Syrope

An important point in the process of cooking Cucatov - Ward Syrope. It must be perfect - in modele thick and sweet enough. The proportion for syrup looks like this: 1.2 kg of sugar by 0.3 l of water.

Water pour into the saucepan, pour sugar, boil the syrup on the low heat about 10 minutes to the complete dissolution of sugar crystals. The main thing is not to overeat the syrup on the stove so that the caramelization process does not begin.

Important! Syrope density is very important because directly affects the quality of the candied. Too liquid syrup will not give the fruits to snap, and they will quickly come into disrepair. And too thick syrup, on the contrary, makes the fruit very sweet and overly soft.

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Cooking Cuchatov - Fruit Blanching

Next, the fruit blanch is carried out without which the candies cannot work.

• Solid fruits and vegetables, such as pumpkin, beets, carrots, quince, boil in boiling water for about 10 minutes.
• Softy fruits - apples, quince, citrus slices are welding no more than 5 minutes, and peaches, apricots, pineapple - no more than 3 minutes.
• Such fruits like a melon or watermelon are not blanched, since their water consistency does not allow this.

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Cooking Cucuts - Cooling Fruits in Syrup

Slices of fruit or vegetables boil several times to completely saturate them with sugar syrup. This is done in such a sequence:

• Cuts lowered in hot syrup, wait until it boils, stealing the fruit of 15 minutes and remove from the fire.
• After 12 hours, repeat the same actions in the exact sequence, and after 12 hours, make another approach.
• For different fruits, cooking duration can be different. For softer fruits, you can do with one feeding, and pumpkin and watermelon crusts will not hurt even once to peel in syrup, and they will become even softer and tasty.

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Cooking Cuchatov - Drying Fruits

In order for the candied for the definition and taste, and also kept well, they must be dried.

• Pull the fruits from the syrup, lay out on the colander, and let the remains of the syrup stretch.
• Spread the candied on the cutting board and give them 4 days to dry.
• During these days, Tsukati, from time to time, turn over uniform drying.
• To accelerate the process, you can dry the coupats in the oven or put a board with outdoor fruits, where there is a draft.
• After the final drying of the candied, sprinkle with sugar powder (it can be missed with chopped cinnamon or vanilla).

Important! Keep the candies follow in hermetic container, for example, in a glass container with a dense lid.

Homemade tunic will be a useful dessert for the whole family. In addition, they are a fragrant addition to delicious cupcakes, bread, liver. Allowed only a few hours to prepare a zuchatov, you can quickly enjoy the taste of summer berries and fruits, filling the body with useful vitamins.