7 Easy Step to Dry Fruit

December 14, 2008 by Sell Farmer  
Filed under Fruits & Vegetables

Dried fruit is fruit that has been dried, either naturally or through use of a machine, such as a food dehydrator. Raisins, prunes, and dates are examples of popular dried fruits. Other fruits such as apples, apricots, bananas, cranberries, figs, kiwi, mangoes, pawpaw, peaches, pears, persimmons, pineapples, strawberries, and tomatoes may also be dried. In addition to dried whole fruits, fruit purée can be dried in sheets to make fruit leather.

Drying is by far the simplest and most natural method of preserving food, these instructions for how to go about drying your own are drawn.

1. Select the Fruit

Use only blemish-free fruits that are fully ripe but not overly ripe.

2. Prepare the Fruit

Wash, pit and slice the fruit. The smaller the pieces, the quicker they will dry. But keep all pieces uniform in size so they’ll dry at the same time.
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