Method of making confectioned mushrooms

Claim 1

The method of claim 1, wherein the bundle of mushrooms is soaked in a series of batches of the boiling carboxylic acid solution for about 15 minutes and thereafter soaked in the successive batches of syrup for a time of approximately 12 to 20 hours per batch.

Claim 10

A method for the preparation of confectioned mushrooms comprising the steps of: a. bringing three batches of an aqueous citric acid solution to boil, b. soaking a bundle of mushrooms in the boiling citric acid solution sequentially in each bath for a period of approximately five minutes in each of the solutions, c. removing the bundle of mushrooms from the last batch of boiling citric acid solution, d. soaking the acid-treated mushrooms in successive batches of syrup maintained at a temperature of approximately 58* C., the concentration of syrup gradually increasing from 45 percent in the first batch to 72 percent in the last batch, said syrup comprising water, sugar, and an anti-crystallization agent, for a period of several hours to replace the water impregnated in the acid solution with syrup, e. heating the obtained mushrooms by a high frequency heating means at a temperature of approximately 80* C. for a time sufficient to uniformly dry both the interior and the surface of the mushrooms, f. coating the resulting mushrooms with a layer of syrup at a temperature of approximately 105* C. to obtain a transparent layer thereon, and g. drying the mushrooms at a temperature of about 28* C.