How to dry dates

If you buy a lot of fresh dates at home, they will go bad if you can't eat them all at once. It is better to dry the dates and make them into dried dates. This way, you can not only eat them at any time, but also keep them for a longer time. The dried dates can be kept for the New Year. However, when trying to dry the dates, you always fail, or the dates become very dry and cannot reach the quality sold outside. If you want to get the dates correctly, the first thing you need to pay attention to is the method of drying the dates and the production process. These are very important.

The method of drying dates is:

After picking fresh dates, pick out the good ones, boil a pot of water, pour the dates in, wait for the water to boil, then take out the dates.

Then pour the dates onto a clean mat woven from sorghum stalks and dry them on the roof.

Because the dates are harvested in autumn and the sun is not particularly strong, they need to be dried in the sun for a dozen days to a month or two.

There are four points to note:

1. The fire for boiling water should be strong and powerful, so that the water for cooking dates can boil quickly. Otherwise, the dates will not be fresh if they are soaked for too long.

2. The mat for drying dates cannot be laid on the ground. Something should be propped up underneath to make the mat airy and ensure its air permeability.

3. Turn the dates over frequently to ensure that they are evenly dried.

4. It is necessary to scald the jujube with boiling water. This process kills some germs and prevents the jujube from