Dry the fruit is an interesting technique to preserve it for longer.

Ingredients:
4 pears big and hard
50g powdered sugar
Preparation.
Peel the pears and cut into regular slices thickness of about 4 mm.
Lay them in trays dryer. Using a fine sieve cover the pears with a thin layer of powdered sugar.
Put to dry at 40° C for 12-24 hours, the time depends on the thickness and initial consistency of the pear.
With higher temperatures speed up the drying process, but you lose the nutritional properties of the fruit.
This procedure is also valid for other types of fruit such as apples, citrus fruits, …. important that they are not a variety too rich in water .
Another way, also used for the industrial production is to put the fruit, after having cut it, in a solution of water and ascorbic acid (15/20 g per liter of water) for 5 minutes, then drain, dry and place to dry.

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