Oven-Roasted Fruit Ingredients 6 peaches, pitted and cut into quarters or eighth

Question

Oven-Roasted Fruit

Ingredients

6 peaches, pitted and cut into quarters or eighths

6 plums or Italian prune plums, pitted and quartered or halved
1/2 cup sugar
2 cups fresh raspberries
2 tablespoons orange juice

Directions

Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.

Place the peaches and plums snugly in a single layer, cut side up, in 2 glass or porcelain oven-proof baking dishes.

Sprinkle with the sugar, and then top with the raspberries. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until tender.

Heat the broiler and place the fruit about 5 inches below the heat and broil for 5 to 8 minutes, until the berries release some of their juices.

Remove from the broiler and sprinkle with orange juice. Serve warm, at room temperature, or chilled.

I need a recipe analysis for this recipe, outlining the science of baking these fruits.

Explanation / Answer

Sugar melts at about 320° F and caramalizes at around 340° F. The importance of baking at 4500 F is to form the rich caramal layer on the friuts.

Oranges contain ascorbic acid and citric acid.Ascorbic acid is better known as vitamin C and citric acid is responsible for the sour flavour. Orange juice is sprinkled last after removing from all the heat sources as both citric and ascorbic acids are affected by heat. At high temperatures they decompose, so is added before heating, both the nutritional value and flavouring of orange juice will be lost.

Related Questions

Navigate

• Browse (All)
• Browse O
• Subjects

Integrity-first tutoring: explanations and feedback only — we do not complete graded work. Learn more.