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String bean drying

  • Shell a string bean from pods also spread out a thin layer on a fabric or a paper to the sun. Dry a string bean of 2-3 days. The dried up string bean pour into glass jars and close their paper or a fabric. To store a dried string bean it is possible at a room temperature.  
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    Green peas drying

  • For drying use young green peas, with the gentle and soft grains collected for 15-17 day after flowering.
  • If peas grains different in the size sort peas, having passed it through a sieve, and dry the big and small peas separately.
  • Shell peas lower in boiling water for 1-2 minutes, then cast away it on a cullender and wash out cold water.
  • Pour out peas on a sieve and place for 10 minutes in a drying cupboard, temperature in which establish in 45 degrees. After you will get a sieve with peas from a cabinet, allow to it to stand 1-1,5 hours, and then again put a sieve in a cabinet and establish temperature about 60 degrees.
  • It is possible to exsiccate young green peas and in another way. Pour peas in the added some salt water also bring to the boil. Then cast away peas on a cullender and predry. Pour out peas on a baking tray, pour a small amount of sugar and exsiccate.
  • The dried peas should have a wrinkled surface and to be dark green colour.
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    Bulb onion drying

    For drying use sharp cultivars of onion. Before drying onion clear of a peel, cut off the top and bottom parts. Then onion cut rings which, in turn, assort on more thin ringlets. For drying onion also can and be chopped thin straws. The onion chopped or cut on ringlets spread on a sieve and place in a drying cupboard. Dry onion at temperature about 65 degrees. The exsiccated onion should get a yellowish tint. To store a powdered onion it is necessary in linen sacks, cardboard boxes and other air-penetrable capacities.  

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    Horse-radish drying

    Horse-radish root carefully wash up, clear and rub on a large grater or cut on small slices. Lay the grated or cut horse-radish on a sieve and place it in a drying cupboard. The exsiccated horse-radish needs to be slashed, crush and to pour into a glass jar. A dried horse-radish apply to preparation of seasonings and sauces.  

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    Spinage drying

    Spinage leaves wash out, lower in boiling water for 0,5 minutes, then cast away them on a cullender and wash out cold water. Predry spinage and lay its thin layer on a sieve, Place a sieve in a drying cupboard and dry spinage at temperature of 45-50 degrees. Dried spinage store in the glass jars which have been wrapped up by a paper.

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    Sorrel drying

    Before drying a sorrel carefully wash in cold water, cut thin straws and put on a sieve. A sieve put in a drying cupboard, the temperature in which should be 45-50 degrees.

    The sorrel can be dried and on open air. For this purpose washed out sorrel collect in small bunches which suspend in a shady place. On sorrel drying in such a way leaves about 6 days.  

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    Drying marjoram

    Fresh marjoram connect in bunches and suspend them on fresh air, in a shade. When marjoram will dry up, thresh it. To store marjoram follows in glass jars. Marjoram it is possible to dry in a drying cupboard. For this purpose it wash out cold water, allow to dry up and stack a thin layer on a sieve. Dry marjoram at temperature of 45 degrees.

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    Tarragon drying

    Young leaves of a tarragon spread out on open air in a shade and exsiccate. Dried leaves lay in a glass jar, close its cap and store at a room temperature.  

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    Celery drying

    Celery greengrocery connect in bunches and dry on fresh air the same as both fennel and a parsley. The exsiccated leaves of a celery mill and store in glass jars.

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    Drying of fennel, parsley

    The greengrocery for drying needs to be collected in the autumn, in September. Wash out fennel or a parsley cold water, cut off radicles and spread out to a paper or a dense fabric on open air. In case of crude weather fennel and a parsley can be dried in a warm premise. The fennel or parsley greengrocery can be connected in bunches and to suspend their stalks upwards on the sun or over the furnace. When fennel or a parsley will dry up, pound them in a powder and pour out in glass jars. Jars close caps and store the exsiccated fennel or a parsley at a room temperature.
     

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