How correctly to soak raisins before baking, for a salad? How to steaming raisins, make it soft for consumption?

Features of proper washing and soaking raisins.

Thanks to the drying of fruits, we are able to eat delicious and healthy products all year round. However, in our time the practice of harvesting for the winter in the amount needed 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 billet production requires the use of preservatives. They protect products from illnesses, and the period of their storage significantly increases.

Let's talk in the article about the methods of the correct preparation of raisins for consumption as an independent dish and ingredient for homemade baking.

How to wash raisins before consumption, soaking?

washed raisins in a bowl and spoon

When you bought raisins and brought it home, be sure to wash it properly before serving or adding to baked goods, salads and other dishes.

Prepare:

• hot and cold water
• strainer or colander
• wash bowl
• board
• spoon for stirring

Procedure:

• add the dry grapes to a container and add cold water so that it covers
• with a hand or spoon and drain
• spread it on the board and go through, removing the tails and rubbish
• again pour into the container and fill with hot water. Its temperature should not exceed 60-70 ℃
• mix with a spoon
• after 10 minutes water drain, and raisins discard on a colander
• leave it until all water drains
• dry the kitchen towel with wet raisins and use as directed

How to properly soak raisinsin the water before baking, for a cake, a cake, a casserole, a kutya?

raisins in a container with water soaked before preparing kutya

The first thing to notice is the color of the raisins. The lighter it is, with the yolk, the longer you need to soak it in water. Since the product has been treated with sulfur, paraffin and a number of chemicals to give a presentation, your task is to melt this film before adding it to baking.

• Boil the water and allow it to cool slightly.
• Add the desired amount of raisins to a container and fill with hot water. Stir everything with a spoon / wooden stick.
• Contain the contents of the container through a sieve, leave the raisins to get rid of excess water.
• Put the product back in a container and pour hot water over it to cover the raisins.
• After a quarter of an hour, repeat the action with the sieve.
• When water ceases to stand out, use raisins for the intended purpose.

How to properly soak raisins in cognac before baking?

raisins with other dried fruits soaked in brandy before baking

Cognac will prepare raisins before baking, giving him softness and moisturizing.

Proceed as follows:

• rinse the raisins under the tap, go through it, scrape it,
• soak in hot water for half an hour, strain through the colander,
• when all the moisture drains, pour the raisins into the plate and pour with water and cognac solution. Take a quarter of a glass of alcohol for half a liter of water,
• note that dried fruits need time for softening, at least 2-3 hours,
• before adding to the baking raisins, hold in a sieve to all the cognac moisture of the glass.

How to properly soak raisins in rum, wine, vodka before baking?

in the bowl with pure raisins poured alcoholic soaking liquid before baking

Cooking gurus recommend to neutralize the sulfur film on the suit by soaking in a weak alcoholic solution. For example, with vodka.

• After thoroughly washing the raisins and drying it on a sieve, add the product to a container and pour it with warm water and vodka. Take them in the proportion of 1 liter of the first 25-30 ml of the second.
• After 40 minutes, let the aqueous solution of raisins drain off the raisins.

The next step in eliminating the results of presale processing of raisins is its soaking in wine.

• Fold the dry grapes in a container and fill with any red wine to cover the dried fruit. In the presence of 2-3 hours, periodically mix the contents of the container, then rinse the remaining alcoholic liquor from the raisins. To do this, place the latter on a sieve and rinse under running water.
• If you soak it overnight or cook a couple of days before baking homemade goodies, leave a container of wine and raisins in the fridge. Be sure to seal them tightly with a lid.
• If you plan to bake in several stages in a short time, sprinkle the necessary amount of raisins from the container, rinse it and use.

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

• Focus on the dosage of rum to soak the dry grapes specified in the recipe. Often enough to dilute half a glass of rum in a liter of boiled cool water and add dry raisins to the solution.
• Leave it soaked for an hour or a month. A longer stay in the alcohol solution involves storage in the refrigerator.
• Allow excess moisture to drain from the dried fruits in a colander.

How to steaming raisins, make it soft for consumption?

raisins flow on the sieve after steaming in boiling water on the

plate Alternative ways of softening the purchased raisins:

• steaming in the oven, steamer or microwave
• heating in a saucepan with water

In the first version, use a washed raisin with a little water.

• Put the dried fruits in one row, then they are better to decay.
• Leave, for example, in a microwave raisin in a plate covered with a special lid or food film. In the second case, leave a small hole to evaporate the moisture. Set the timer for half a minute. If the result does not work for you, add as much time.
• After heating, remove the raisins and allow it to cool in the container that it was in the microwave / oven.
• Then dry it with paper towels.

The second way to soften the raisins is as follows:

• add the dry grapes washed with cold water into a small pan
• add the cold water to the full coat mark
• light the maximum heat and bring to a boil the saucepan with raisins
• immediately turn off the fire and put it on the stand
• through5 minutes, drain the contents of the pan into a colander
• leave the raisins until the excess moisture has drained

So, we considered ways to soften the purchased raisins before serving to the table and adding to the baking.

Use advice for good and let your culinary masterpieces please your family and guests!

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