Fruit Preserve Recipes

Candied Santol

Ingredients:

Santol
Sugar
Sodium hydroxide or lihiya (commercial flakes)

How to make candied santol

Wash fruits. Remove peel by putting fruits in 6 percent sodium hydroxide solution

or lihiya (approximately 1 cup sodium hydroxide flakes in 3 liters of water) for 5 minutes.

Wash in cold water immediately to remove all traces of lihiya.
Place fruits under running water and scrape or brush off peel. Rinse fruits.
Blanch fruits in boiling water for 10 minutes.
Cool in running water.
Slice into wedges and remove seeds.
For every cup of fruit, add 1 cup sugar. Mix them in a bowl and let stand overnight.
Remove liquid and scrape off sugar from fruit.
Spread fruit on wire trays and dry in a dryer or under the sun.
Pack in plastic bags or insect-proof containers.

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