Wash the apricots and remove the stones. The ingredients indicated that 1 kg of sugar 1 kg of apricots, it is not (just didn't know how else to specify). 1 kg of sugar is enough for several pounds of apricots, as long as they fit in 1 liter of syrup.

Then, the apricots need to boil in sugar syrup, otherwise they will become brown and so will retain its colour (although will not be as bright as the store) and will be more sweet. In 1 liter of boiling water dissolve 1 kg of sugar. To put there our halves and boil for 5-10 minutes. This syrup leave them for a day.

A day take out the apricots and drain the syrup. In a colander or a sieve to make it not happen. Since apricots at this stage is very delicate and can spread from one movement. For myself, I came up with this method: lay on the edge of a deep dish carefully our apricots.

To plates less took place, made a few of those designs :).

After the juice with the apricot stopped draining, you can start, in fact, to the main action - drying. I dry in the dryer (actually bought it primarily for apricots). Lay halves of apricots on the grid of the dryer in a single layer, it is best that they don't even touch each other. Put the filled grid in the dryer, close and set the temperature. I dried first at 50 degrees, and doseusual at 45 degrees. By the time it took about 10-15 hours. Just some were ready in 10 hours, while others had yet to dry. That was not so hot in the apartment, I set everything out to dry overnight in the kitchen and shut the door.

When I was looking for ways to cooking dried apricots I found in the Internet different ways to define readiness of the product. Wrote that they should be soft (but initially they are not solid) and indicated different percentages of residual moisture (honestly, I don't know how in house conditions to measure the moisture content of the products). Therefore, the result of several experiments I readiness defined as: soft elastic, and most importantly, not sticky to the touch.

From the initial 2.5 kg of raw apricots I got about 0.5 kg of dried. I keep them in a glass jar with airtight lid in the refrigerator.

Yes, I almost forgot. Syrup, which was roasted apricots, too, is not lost. I again boiled (it, by the way, there are still a number of sprawling abrikosik) and closed in the Bank. In winter you can dissolve and drink compote.