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19 responses to “Silent Sunday: dehydrating apples & pear slices”
Why dehydrating apples & pear slices. What you made by? So nice slices .
It’s to make them last longer to eat and have as snacks!
They are made from apple and pear slices and you place the slices on a plastic tray that you put in the dehydrating machine for 8 hours. The machine evaporates all the water from them and makes them very light.
They are handy and tasty snacks.
They are! It’ll be interesting to taste them. We were told that kids can bring them to the fair this summer to talk about food preservation.
That’s even a better idea then. A fellow blogger has a dehydrator and did a post once on how much she dehydrates. She has a large garden, so it was worth it to get the machine.
That’s great to save food and use up the excess produce! Excellent planning.
The lady teaching the kids said that you could use it for tomatoes and persimmon too.
Dried tomatoes are healthy – I see that mentioned in health articles. I had to Google persimmon to see what they were … they have lots of healthful properties as well. That is great you are doing this!
I’d love to try dried tomatoes to put in pasta, but then I’d have to get the dehydrating machine. That thing is large and would take up a lot of storage space in our kitchen. Persimmons are sweet in general but sweeter when dried.
4-H has been a great blessing for us! Gives us an opportunity to try different projects. We’re starting a pasture lamb project and this weekend we’ll be setting up the farm for the labs when they arrive April 4th. Kids will be shepherds for 3 months. lol
Those machines are big and take up space. My mom bemoaned the lack of counter space in this kitchen all the time.
That will be a fun project Esther and I’ll bet they shear the sheep too – is it possible to view that? I wanted to watch the alpacas being shorn in the Spring and I had written a blog post about them the Summer before when I was visiting the alpaca farm. I sent post to the owners and then Richard invited me to come by the following Spring and sent me a Facebook message to let me know they would be shearing Sunday. I got there and word had come out about COVID, so he told me he couldn’t take a chance that COVID germs could land in their fur and wouldn’t let me go into the barn or near thir enclosure.
It could’ve been so interesting to see the alpacas being shorn, and you were so close to seeing the process!! COVID has affected so much and so many people for way too long. To think that it’s still a thing is disturbing.
These lambs are for harvest, so they will get sold this summer. It’s sad to think they will you know…become meat…but kids are learning about it. There are other projects that work with sheep, but none that I know of that are starting for new students.
Yep, the dehydrator is a counter hog! Unless you’re drying lots of foods, it’s not practical to have.
Yes, I would still like to see this process one day. I should see if I still have an invitation to go watch. The passage of time has been too long now and he’s probably forgotten. What is cool about this alpaca farm is they shear the alpacas and then send the fur to a place which cleans it, dyes it and bags it by dye lot and by each alpaca’s name that “donated” their wool. They have a little shop that sells knitted accessories that local people knit and they have the knitting classes right at the farm. I would try the class out, but it’s not all that close to where I live and on the island (Grosse Ile). After COVID vaccines came out, I had thought about going to visit, but then the Grosse Ile free bridge was being repaired for 18 months and it will be repaired again for an equal amount of time next year I believe. I don’t know how to find the toll bridge, but I understand they wait for miles to get on and off the island. I’m sorry to hear about the lambs’ fate. My maternal great-grandparents had a farm and my mom said they’d spent a lot of time there in the Summer. My mom’s grandfather was mean and he’d tell them to pick a chicken for dinner and make them watch him slaughter it. I have had a history of males behaving badly in my family. 🙂
Yum! I hadn’t thought of adding cinnamon. That’s a great idea!
That was a new idea to us too! It’ll be interesting to try. We also had some apple and pear slices soaking in orange juice to prevent them from browning. We brought those pieces home and ate it next day, and they were just as fresh as when the kids cut them.
They look delicious, Esther! Cinnamon goes well with apples like apple cider with cinnamon sticks.
The fresh apples and pears were delicious. Our teacher will dehydrate them in the machine for 8 hours, and we’ll get them at our next meeting. We had no idea that cinnamon goes well with apples! Will be interesting to taste.
Hope you are well, Miriam!
I had friends who dehydrated the fruits, Esther. It makes more sense to do that for people who live in the North and grow their own fruits, dehydrating them to use in the winter. I’m fine, thank you.
Oh, I didn’t think about that. That’s a great idea to preserve out of season fruits for a later time.
Good to hear you are doing well!
I think it’s a good idea, Esther.
Oh this is interesting
Never tried them