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How to keep fresh watermelon before the New Year
Perhaps, it is difficult to find anyone who would not love watermelons. In some southern countries like them so much that even served as a Christmas treat. But there is a way to enjoy fresh watermelon in winter, visiting tropical countries, and without buying expensive, but not very tasty fruit in the supermarket?
< Website to find out what is possible. We have compiled for you a little instruction, following which you will be able to save striped berry fresh to the New year.
Choosing the right watermelon
- The most important thing - to find a watermelon without cracks, dents and other damage, otherwise the whole thing will be useless
- Do not choose a watermelon is very large.. The best will be the one that weighs about 4 kg.
- best to use late-ripening varieties with a thick crust.
- should not be taken for the storage of very ripe fruit, they may be damaged.
The method of storage of water-melons, which we want to tell you, come to us from India. It is coated with a layer that watermelons or paraffin wax, which protects them from external influence and the loss of its own moisture. This is done as follows:
- Wipe with a dry cloth watermelon, it is not necessary to wash;
- melt the paraffin or wax in a water bath. If you did not find this stuff on sale, you can use a cheap candle. Pre remove from their wicks, and broke into pieces;
- slightly cool the resulting liquid, and then uniformly apply it to the watermelon, turning it up until the wax layer is not thick enough - at least 0, 5 cm;
- let the wax harden.
- Keep covered with paraffin watermelons should be in a dark, cool and dry place. Before that, they need to be put in a box or boxes filled with straw or newspapers.
- Ideal will keep the box with watermelons in the cellar or closet, but if you do not have such storage sites, then fit the mezzanine or compartments for clothes inside sofa. The main thing is to choose a place away from heating appliances.
- From time to time you need to inspect and turn watermelons, to prevent the appearance of spots.
Before serving, the watermelon should be cleaned from the wax shell and how to wash. We hope that this way of storing your favorite fruit will help you to surprise guests and relatives to please.
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