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The sweet consists of chestnut and sugar sherbet. Its made from the chesnuts grown in Uludag in Bursa.
The sweet consists of chestnut and sugar sherbet. Its made from the chesnuts grown in Uludag in Bursa. After the boiled Chestnuts are peeled,they are covered by muslins. Then they are dipped into the sherbet. In recent times, there are chocolate covered version of the candied chestnuts, also.
The candied chestnut is defined in Turkish Standarts 9400 as a sweet product is prepared by peeling the husk of the fruits and aril of the seeds by the help of physical methods and by the addition of sucrose, glucose, glucose syrup and one or some of the invert sugar syrup and pectin, vanilla and some of the ingredients in accordance with the technique.
According to this information, the production stages of the candied chestnut could be summed up:
- at first, the chestnuts are classified according to their size.
- then, the peeling of the husks is in line.
- the peeling of the husks aimed for the inner and the outer covering.
- the peeling process can be achieved in different methods.
- the peeled chestnuts are freezed in deep-freezed at -25C and they are waited in -18C until to be used.
- if necessary, they are taken from the protection rooms and are used after they are defrosted .
- during this time, the fine grains of the chesnuts are cleaned.
- the chestnuts are boiled with hot steam under the pressure.
- the boiled chestnuts are baked in the cup of sugar syrup,then are kept in the syrp for 3 days.
- in this time,the transition of the sugar into chestnuts is done.
- when they reach at a certain level, the chestnuts are taken from the cups of which they are kept.
- the candied chestnut is given to the market after packed in the jars or tins as syrupy or in the packages as without syrup.
Packaging: Can (Tinned) | Preservation Process: Syrup |