Candied peaches: preparing homemade candied fruits from green and ripe peaches

Wash the peaches and peel them. Green peaches often have very poor pitting and you have to work hard to cut them into more or less equal slices.

Boil the syrup. For 1 kilogram of peeled peaches you need to take one liter of water and 1 kilogram of sugar.

Now you need to thoroughly soak the peaches in syrup, but do not cook them. To do this, boil the syrup and when the sugar is completely dissolved, dip the peach slices into it. As soon as the syrup with peaches boils, remove the pan from the stove and wait until the syrup cools.

Put the pan back on the fire, boil and remove from the stove again. This procedure must be done several times until the peaches are saturated with syrup and become softer.

When you decide that the peaches are sufficiently soaked, place them in a colander to drain thoroughly. Do not discard the peach syrup. Maybe later you will want marshmallows?

So, the peaches have drained and now they need to be dried. This is done simply in the open air, or in an electric dryer.

In the fresh air, in good weather, the drying time for candied peaches is 3-4 days.

For the impatient, there is an electric dryer in which this time is reduced to 6 hours, in medium mode (+55 degrees). There is no need to speed up the drying time even more, since peaches are very tender and can burn and become hard in the oven.

The wait will be worth it because you will end up with delicious and flavorful candied peaches.

Sprinkle the finished candied fruits with powdered sugar and taste. And what remains, put it in a glass jar with a lid and store it in a dark and cool place.

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