One of the gentle harvest home - conservation methods , in my opinion , is making and dry yield leather . This process is so simple that you and your children can relish doing it together without much fuss . Fruit leathers give use to bruised and imperfect yield because the fruit is puréed . nourishing and fun to dress up with cream cheese and spice , pear leather is sure to please as your heavy work out student return from schooling one of these laconic , fall Clarence Shepard Day Jr. .
Making Fruit Leather
If you have a blender , a tongue and an oven you may make pear leather . I used ripe pears for this recipe , butany fruitfrom salmon pink to apples will exploit .
Ingredients
Preparation
Wash , halve and core the pears . Bruised fruit is okay , but cut off and compost any rotten section . I apply pear that have n’t been sprayed so that I can leave on the tegument to make this process quicker and to keep the nutrition of the skin , but you may choose to skin your pears .
Blend a generous amount of pear halves on high until fluent like pear soup . Pour into a big bowl . Repeat this cognitive process until all the pears have been puréed .
tote up the cinnamon , beloved and gamboge juice to the purée , and mix well . The honey is completely optional , and if the pears are sweet enough , you most in all probability wo n’t need it . you may manifold up this formula for as many dehydrating racks as you have . make for around with amounts because pear size and water content vary .
If you have a dehydrator , line your rack with drying sheets and spread the pear purée on it about 1/8 - inch wooden-headed . If you do n’t have a dehydrator , line a jelly - gyre goat god with parchment paper or a silicone polymer mat and accompany the same subprogram .
coiffure your dehydrator or oven to 140 degree F. Dry the purée until it ’s no longer schmalzy but not quite crispy . yield leather dries from the outside toward the middle so fight your finger into the center and verify no indentation remains . The time change greatly due to the urine content of the yield , but plan for 5 to 8 hours .
While it ’s still lovesome , flake off the leather from the sheet of paper to cool flat . you’re able to use a cooky cutter to cut out merriment shapes . Wrap the fruit leather in parchment newspaper and store at elbow room temperature for about a month — if they last that long , which I doubt .
Tessa Zundel
Make It Fun
you could add all kinds of merriment items to your yield leather to make it snazzy . Try coconut flake , crushed nuts , granola , raisins or other dry out fruit , small marshmallow , coffee chips — whatever ! Some ingredients , like nut and coconut flakes , can be supply to your purée and dried with your leather , but he meltable factor should be lend with monkey nut butter or cream tall mallow after the leather is dry .
As an after schoolhouse snack , homemade yield leather is much better than a package ware full of preservative and corn sirup . Besides , your homemade snack will be made with a lusty measurement of homegrown love .
Tessa Zundel
