Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Tips for Storing fruits and vegetables

The basic truism regarding the storage of vegetables and fruit and vegetables - that it should not occur either in light or outdoors. (In the light they begin to actively breathe and continue biological processes that accelerate aging and impair the taste.) Shelf life is reduced to two or three times. 

In the refrigerator the gifts of nature are all the conditions, unless Southern or even tropical crops. 

Vegetables and fruit, which was not enough room in the refrigerator, keep in a dark corner packed in glass jars with lids, plastic bags or closed wooden boxes. 

CARROT long stored in a plastic bag or glass jar with a lid, if before it is well washed, dipped in a pink solution of potassium permanganate, and spread out on clean paper to dry. 

If you need to store carrots in a wooden box, do well to remember an old recipe: pour root dry onion peel (you need to constantly replenish its stocks, while cleaning the bow not throw). Another way - to prepare a broth of onion peel and before storage to dip into it purely carrot washed and dried. It is recognized that onion peel has antibacterial properties. 

Onions and garlic are believed to require no special care. The classic way - to weave them into plaits and hang on the wall in a dry dark secluded corner, where the temperature is more or less stable. Ironically, it may be even cubicle next to the heating battery. Onions are stored here for months without sacrificing quality. Increased dryness near the battery prevents bulbs sprout. 
Garlic is such treatment does not like: it can prematurely dry up. 

Here are just weave in braids coming into the trading network of onion and garlic is not always possible: short tails. Then take the old, but clean thin nylon stocking and fill it with onions or garlic. Hang on a nail of the toe, and a bottom tie knot free or pinch laundry clothespin, the better to get one bulb. This construction is not bad in the spirit of antiquity adorn your kitchen, because the stocking garland in two steps can not be distinguished from a woven braids. 

Sometimes the onions start up or rot onion fly. To avoid this, before storage or cut from the stems of bulbs, or scorch them a candle or a gas burner. And to prevent germination, scorch bulbs and on the other side. The same is done with garlic. 
Sometimes garlic kept in linen bags interspersed with all the same bactericidal onion peel. In a cool, dry, without the jumps in temperature place the garlic stored until spring. 

Yet capricious garlic than onions. So sometimes it is necessary to keep him with trickery. For example, a dip before the laying of the deposit each head into molten paraffin to form a solid shell. It will prevent drying of garlic Zubkov. 
Another exotic way to store garlic: peeled teeth put in sunflower oil. From this oil will not be worse, on the contrary, it will get an appetizing flavor. 

Option: combine garlic (this time untreated) in a glass jar and pour the dry flour, sprinkled the top layer is not less than 2 centimeters 

If you did not protect the bulb and they are frozen, put them on for 2-3 hours in cold water, and they will restore their appearance and taste. But for long-term storage of such a bow is not good. 

Cabbage head packing in a rather capricious for storage in the home. It shows a rustic cellar, with all its amenities. Successfully keep the cabbage in specially dug trenches under the snow. But in the refrigerator heading out quickly fades, and wrapped in a plastic bag - rots. 

But if you have available is a cool, dry closet, try to keep it somewhat clean, well-obsushennyh head packing, pre-wrapped every newspaper. Kochan not put close to each other, and newspaper wrapper changed regularly. 

Better yet, keep hanging over cabbage stalks, because damage usually begins in the field of contact with the surface. 

Perhaps you useful is the fact that the Caucasus has long been successfully preserved cabbage strung on corn stalks. Modern science is in this deep meaning. The fact is that inherent in the storage of vegetables and continue to breathe the breath of heat. Cabbage because of this suffering, because when breathing produces carbon dioxide and collects between the leaves, not blowing into the right to breathe oxygen. 

Cabbage itself from a "suffocating". Hole in Kocani allows her to air out and keep in order the core, where the apical bud. Therefore Piercing loaf (but does not affect the apical bud) porous corn stalk does not hinder cabbage breathe, but does not give the hole to close because of growth of apical buds. 

If you liked this idea, and corn stalks in the winter in a city apartment at hand, of course, was not, that's an entertaining experience Moscow inventor A. Rukavishnikova. In the wort through a head of it borrowed from his wife put plastic curlers (tubules with latticed walls). Experimental cabbages placed in a refrigerator or cellar and held down the top weight, had a good 3-4 months and there were fresh. Role prigruza to assist gas exchange, as if to push the accumulated carbon dioxide. Therefore it is useful from time to time to remove and re-impose a burden on heads. 

But no matter how we schemed best cabbage in the home remains in pickled form. Recipe cooking does not cite, is classic, and in every home it acted in its own way. But the interesting nuances of the ancient Russian books. 

"I notice that the cabbage, which put the bib on the new moon, is firm and squeaks on the teeth, but because who likes a soft, let it booze for the last quarter moon. 

Let's talk about the nuances of storage. Sauerkraut citizens have to keep on the balcony or outside. Alas, while it is good only until the first severe frosts. It can be eaten, and after, but always inspiring to myself that this is very useful. To save a tasty sauerkraut throughout the winter still very desirable cellar, or at least heat chamber on the balcony. 

PRESERVATION OF FRESH CAULIFLOWER for the winter. "You have to fall to wrest from the roots of cabbage, wrap each loaf with a rope so that one did not touch the other, and hang it in the cellar as high as possible. Thus cabbage stored until Christmas. It is from time to time to pull the leaves yellowed and in good weather, ventilate the cellar . 

TOMATOES, collected in autumn, stored in a dark, dry place, laid out in a single layer peduncles attached upward. Green tomatoes that have not had time to ripen in your garden plot, put in flat wooden boxes and kept on the floor, where poprohladnee and darker. Temperature must be above-zero. It is believed that the proximity of two or three red tomatoes accelerates redness remaining. 

And they say that such tomatoes can doderzhat right up to the New Year, when selecting the healthiest green fruits, each wrapped in paper and put into a box lined with straw or paper torn into pieces, peduncles attached upward. Store in the dark at temperatures of 11-13 ° C until they blush. 

Fresh cucumbers. To preserve their fresh invented many tricks, though, frankly, salted, pickled or marinated, they are much tastier. And concerns with preservation of less. But once the problem of fresh cucumbers someone care to list every known and little-known ways of their savings. 

Guaranteed shelf life of fresh cucumbers - no more than three days. But if the long greenhouse cucumbers with survivors peduncles attached, like a bouquet to put in a bowl with water, tails down and change the water every day, such a bouquet can be preserved for many days. And here's another way to protect cucumbers from drying. They are carefully washed with boiled water, wipe and daubed with egg protein to form a film impervious to moisture. Unlike polyethylene, this film allows the fruit to breathe, so they are well preserved without refrigeration in a cool, dark place. Especially if you keep them hanging for the stalk. 

Until this day came way to use some of the villagers: a wooden barrel filled with fresh cucumbers, fall down with a weight at the bottom of an ice pond with running water (for example, a small river rapids). Winter and even spring, get them in spades. 

If the pickles bit of a nuisance and they are moldy, yet not all is lost. We must thoroughly wash the cucumbers from the mold and shift to clean the dishes. Cook the new brine: 1 liter of water 2 tablespoons salt, plus a teaspoon of granulated sugar. Slightly cooled, add a tablespoon of vinegar and pour over cucumbers affected. Keep in a cool place in sealed container, (can be refrigerated). 

Cucumbers become even tastier than they were. 

APPLES long remain strong and fresh, if you wipe them with a cloth moistened with glycerine. They will not dry up so quickly. 
And if you hold them in a pink solution of potassium permanganate, it will protect them against putrefactive bacteria. 

Apples destined for storage in the cellar, it is useful to wrap each separately in soft paper. 

And in any case before packing and storing apples laying on the need to advance a little bit cool, or in the first hours of storage, they will actively give moisture surrounding cooler objects by the laws of the condensation

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