Why? Because you can! And pickle, and jam, or otherwise celebrate the resurgence of the domestic arts our forebears held so dear. Put on your best apron and step into our kitchen, won't you?
Basic method of dehydrating apples and a couple tricks such as taping the underside of the mandolin, placing your dehydrator in the garage, and freezing your apples afterwards.
If you are like us, you find yourself surrounded by more apples than you know what to do with. They take up less space preserved: instructions for dried apple rings and a recipe for apple jelly.
Here's a way to use the entire apple in drying. I got the idea for Apple Dust from drying leftover skins from canning tomatoes. My dust has a lovely pink color & a light apple flavor. Perfect for mixing into yogurt, oatmeal & pancakes.
I recently borrowed my mom’s old food dehydrator (made in 1979!) and realized this was a perfect chance to use it. So I sliced up some fruit, set it in the dehydrator, and got back to work. Couldn’t have been much easier.
