Dark brown, gooey and sweet, dates are a popular dry fruit that people love to eat! Also known as dates, this dry fruit is prepared by heating the date fruit to give it its unique and juicy texture. It is often enjoyed as a light snack or added to dishes to make a dish more flavourful. However, our daily cooking does not require heavy use of dates. People keep some dates at home in a corner of their fridge, in the unlikely event that it will be needed in a recipe. If dates are not used for long periods of time, they dry out and become tough, making them hard to use in recipes! We’ve found a way to bring these old, tough Date back to life.
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How to Refresh Your Old Dates Revive your dates to make them soft and fresh
key to old DateHiding in the corner of your fridge, a makeover is pretty easy. First of all boil some water. After this, place the dried dates in a bowl. Add enough boiling water to boil, so that the fruit is completely submerged. Soak dates in hot water for 10 minutes. After the dates are soaked, strain the fruits and drain the water. You have fresh, tender and sweet dates ready to use in any recipe.
Older dates lose all moisture when dried, so soaking dates restores the lost moisture of the fruit. The soaking process softens the meat and leaves them with a delicious flavor similar to that of fresh dates. By refreshing dates, you can easily add dates to foods or beverages and even enjoy them again as a snack.
Another trick to revive dates is to give them an extra kick of flavor. All you have to do is soak the dates in fruit juice, brandy, bourbon or rum instead of water!
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