Nutrition
| Per 100 g | Per 1 oz (28 g) | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 296 kcal | 84 kcal |
| Protein | 3.7 g | 1 g |
| Fat | 1.9 g | 0.5 g |
| saturated | 0.1 g | 0 g |
| Carbohydrate | 55.2 g | 15.7 g |
| sugars | 50.9 g | 14.4 g |
| Fibre | 17.7 g | 5 g |
| Sodium | 5 mg | 1 mg |
Estimated from the ingredients, for the finished dried product. Actual values vary with the produce you use and how far you dry it.
Ingredients
- 2.1 kg raspberries or strawberries, hulled
- 1 1/8 cups sugar
- 1 1/8 cups orange juice
- 2 1/4 cups lemon zest
- 2 1/4 cups orange zest
Instructions
- Zest the lemons and oranges before you touch the berries. Zesting is slow, and cut sugared berries start weeping juice within minutes of being left standing.
- Dice the strawberries and raspberries no bigger than a pea. The raspberries collapse as soon as they are cut, which is fine — they are the colour here, and the strawberry pieces supply the body.
- Stir the fruit with the sugar, orange juice and both zests and leave it a few minutes. The sugar draws juice out, that juice picks up the citrus oil, and the flavour ends up spread through the mixture rather than sitting on top of it.
- Spread it thinly over lined sheets, breaking up any clumps of fruit as you go. A clump stays a wet lump at its centre and will not grind.
- Dry at 48 °C for 7 hours. The low setting is about colour — this whole recipe exists to look bright on top of something, and heat dulls red fruit faster than it dulls anything else.
- It is done when the fruit has gone from sticky to papery and a cooled piece cracks rather than compressing. There must be no tackiness at all, because a sprinkle with any moisture in it cakes into a solid lump the week after you grind it.
- Let it cool completely on the sheet before it goes near the grinder. Warm fruit sugar smears on the blades and gives you paste instead of sprinkles.
- Pulse in short bursts and stop while the pieces are still visible. Keep them in a small airtight jar at the back of a cupboard for three months, shaking it before use — they settle, and they lose their colour in the light.
