Dried fruits perfectly replace sweets, you can always take them with you. And also, this is a great idea for a New Year's gift, the main thing is to pack it beautifully. Dried fruits in stores are now very expensive, and this is a great alternative to replace a store product.
Cooking time: two hours
Ingredients:
- Six oranges
- Two glasses of sugar;
- The juice of half an orange or lemon.
Cooking recipe
First you need to prepare all the necessary products. It will take six oranges. Fruits should be washed thoroughly under hot water and rubbed with a brush. Next, the orange is peeled, for this, a cross-shaped incision is made from above on the fruit, from top to bottom and the peel is removed.
Next, the peel is placed in water. It is advisable to soak the skin of an orange for two days, but you can not soak it if you use the method below. Soak in order to remove excess bitterness. If you decide to soak, then in this case the water changes at least two times.
If not soaked. We put the peel drenched in water on the fire and let it boil. As soon as it boils, remove from heat and drain the water and fill in a new one. Repeat the procedure 3 times. Each procedure takes twenty minutes.
Next, rinse the orange peel under cool water and cut into oblong strips.
Prepare the syrup. To do this, pour sugar and one cup of water into the pan. Dissolve, and then lower the prepared skins there. Cook for an hour and a half. Stir constantly. Boil until almost all the syrup is boiled out. At the end, add half the juice of the orange to the syrup. Then drain through the colander the remaining syrup and candied fruit lay on food paper, let them dry for a day, you can dry on the battery.
Once the candied fruit has dried, they can be served with tea!
