Maybe more.
We have plums everywhere.
And a body can only eat so many...
What to do?
(Cue the orchestra) MAKE FRUIT LEATHER!
Okay, so you're thinking "what's the big deal?"
Well, nothing really except it all turned out so cool.
And I have this 'thing" about wasting food. I **hate** to waste food. I like to put everything we grow or buy to good use & get as many uses as possible out of it.
So the fruit leather idea pleased me greatly.
And they came out perfect.
Way more perfect than I even dared to hope.
And, okay, it's just cool to make something like that.
And fun.
And it was easy peasy.
We washed & pitted the plums.
Ran them thru the food processor until they were liquified.
Oh! Here's one of the cool parts: we cut parchment paper to fit our trays ~ worked like a charm!
Here they are all done (we dehydrated them at 140* overnight)
We cut them into 4ths & rolled them up (fruit roll ups!) & put them in baggies to store in the freezer (longer shelf life).
See how easy it peels off the parchment paper?
They taste so yummy & sour & even better than those nasty things you buy at the store chock full of chemicals & ingredients you can't pronounce!
And being the dork that I am I am just *giddy* with the thought of taking these camping & hiking & hunting & just ,well, everywhere :)
Yes. Yes, I am easily pleased. It is one of my most endearing qualities :)
Blessings.
Awesome! Do you do them raw or are they cooked somewhere along the line?
ReplyDeleteI made our plum into jam and did the pitting as part of the jamming process. I just washed them and then cooked them pit, skin & all. When they were total mush, I put the pot away for the night in the fridge. The pits fall to the bottom pretty much and I just blendered the whole mess (in small batches just in case I missed a pit) and jammed them from there.
No cooking. I've never tried cooking them whole~ intriguing!
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