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(Msg. 1) Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 5:08 pm
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Well, I've got two pans of fruit leather heating in the
oven, and I suspect I did something wrong. Not sure how I
could have, given the simplicity of the recipe. Puree
fruit, pour in plastic-lined pans, cook at lowest possible
temperature with door of oven cracked open. 4-6 hours
later, I'm supposed to have leather.
(Grand fun to have an open oven baking on a 100 degree F
day, BTW. Evening, to be precise, since I refuse to bake
diddly-poop for hours and hours without open windows, in
summertime.)
I do have fruit leather, in a rather traditional,
abused-leather sense. Cracked like the surface of a
non-sandy desert. Not sure it will "peel easily" off the
plastic like the recipe says. And it has been cooking for
7+ hours, so far.
Not quiiiiiiite like the fruit leather in the stores.
Please tell me I'm not the only person to wreck a "simple"
recipe this year.
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 5:08 pm
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On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:08:57 GMT, "m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"
<"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"@earthlink.net> wrote:
>Please tell me I'm not the only person to wreck a "simple"
>recipe this year.
'Simple' recipes are actually the easiest to wreck, usually because the
recipe is so 'simple' that the recipe writer assumes that you will know
some 'obvious' steps without having to be told.
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:41 pm
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William George Ferguson wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:08:57 GMT, "m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"
> <"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"@earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>Please tell me I'm not the only person to wreck a "simple"
>>recipe this year.
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> 'Simple' recipes are actually the easiest to wreck, usually because the
> recipe is so 'simple' that the recipe writer assumes that you will know
> some 'obvious' steps without having to be told.
After thinking about it for a while, I think I put down too
thick a layer of fruit puree. Not sure how I could have
made it thinner, though. I tipped and tilted to spread the
pureed fruit out, and it seeeeeemmed plenty thin.
Huh.
I just froze apricots today. Puts my "what to do with 12
lbs of apricots" problem off to some other day, when I won't
be so tired of cooking apricots. :>
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:41 am
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On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:41:45 GMT, "m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"
<"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"@earthlink.net> wrote:
>After thinking about it for a while, I think I put down too
>thick a layer of fruit puree. Not sure how I could have
>made it thinner, though. I tipped and tilted to spread the
>pureed fruit out, and it seeeeeemmed plenty thin.
>
>Huh.
>
>I just froze apricots today. Puts my "what to do with 12
>lbs of apricots" problem off to some other day, when I won't
>be so tired of cooking apricots. :>
Fruit leather? I've never heard of it!
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:41 am
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John Oliver wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:41:45 GMT, "m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"
> <"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"@earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>After thinking about it for a while, I think I put down too
>>thick a layer of fruit puree. Not sure how I could have
>>made it thinner, though. I tipped and tilted to spread the
>>pureed fruit out, and it seeeeeemmed plenty thin.
>>
>>Huh.
>>
>>I just froze apricots today. Puts my "what to do with 12
>>lbs of apricots" problem off to some other day, when I won't
>>be so tired of cooking apricots. :>
>
> Fruit leather? I've never heard of it!
Well, Mummy Az suggested it...
I believe it is *supposed* to turn out looking like a "fruit
roll-up". Dried fruit, pureed before drying so you can dry
it in sheets or strips.
Mine looks more like a magnification of a shattered windshield.
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 4:56 pm
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"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]" <"m_thomas
[numBksInLastHrldMage]"@earthlink.net> wrote in news:sd_ii.4344
$zA4.2895@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net:
> John Oliver wrote:
>> On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:41:45 GMT, "m_thomas
[numBksInLastHrldMage]"
>> <"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>>After thinking about it for a while, I think I put down too
>>>thick a layer of fruit puree. Not sure how I could have
>>>made it thinner, though. I tipped and tilted to spread the
>>>pureed fruit out, and it seeeeeemmed plenty thin.
>>>
>>>Huh.
>>>
>>>I just froze apricots today. Puts my "what to do with 12
>>>lbs of apricots" problem off to some other day, when I won't
>>>be so tired of cooking apricots. :>
>>
>> Fruit leather? I've never heard of it!
>
> Well, Mummy Az suggested it...
>
> I believe it is *supposed* to turn out looking like a "fruit
> roll-up". Dried fruit, pureed before drying so you can dry
> it in sheets or strips.
>
> Mine looks more like a magnification of a shattered windshield.
>
Sometime in the future...
m_thomas: It's a new dish I invented. It's called "fruit
brittle".
Friend: How did you come up with it?
(m_thomas smiles mysteriously.)
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(Msg. 7) Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:08 am
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Michael Ikeda wrote:
> "m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]" <"m_thomas
<snip>
>>>Fruit leather? I've never heard of it!
>>
>>Well, Mummy Az suggested it...
>>
>>I believe it is *supposed* to turn out looking like a "fruit
>>roll-up". Dried fruit, pureed before drying so you can dry
>>it in sheets or strips.
>>
>>Mine looks more like a magnification of a shattered windshield.
>
> Sometime in the future...
>
> m_thomas: It's a new dish I invented. It's called "fruit
> brittle".
>
> Friend: How did you come up with it?
>
> (m_thomas smiles mysteriously.)
>
>
<big grin!>
Thoughtfully... I'd try it, but I suspect fruit alone won't
crystallize. The brittles I've eaten all had a high sugar
concentration; sugar crystallizes well.
I bought a dehydrator today. I'm gonna have to dehydrate a
looooooooot of apricots to make the dehydrator cost less
than the dried apricots I buy annually. But it appears I
have a tree that will be producing pounds and pounds of
apricots annually...
I have trouble finding dried fruits with no sulphate. Maybe
I'll start drying my own. ;>
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(Msg. 8) Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 7:35 am
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On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:08:19 GMT, "m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"
<"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"@earthlink.net> wrote:
>I bought a dehydrator today. I'm gonna have to dehydrate a
>looooooooot of apricots to make the dehydrator cost less
>than the dried apricots I buy annually. But it appears I
>have a tree that will be producing pounds and pounds of
>apricots annually...
I have a dehydrator and I was never able to get fruit to turn out like
the nice soft pro-packaged stuff. Mine always came out hard as a
rock. <sigh> Oh well, can't be an expert at everything I suppose.
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(Msg. 9) Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:51 am
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(Msg. 10) Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:16 pm
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> <snip>
>>>> Fruit leather? I've never heard of it!
>>>
>>> Well, Mummy Az suggested it...
>>>
>>> I believe it is *supposed* to turn out looking like a "fruit
>>> roll-up". Dried fruit, pureed before drying so you can dry it in
>>> sheets or strips.
>>>
>>> Mine looks more like a magnification of a shattered windshield.
>>
>> Sometime in the future...
>>
>> m_thomas: It's a new dish I invented. It's called "fruit brittle".
>>
>> Friend: How did you come up with it?
>>
>> (m_thomas smiles mysteriously.)
>>
>>
>
> <big grin!>
>
> Thoughtfully... I'd try it, but I suspect fruit alone won't
> crystallize. The brittles I've eaten all had a high sugar
> concentration; sugar crystallizes well.
>
> I bought a dehydrator today. I'm gonna have to dehydrate a looooooooot
> of apricots to make the dehydrator cost less than the dried apricots I
> buy annually. But it appears I have a tree that will be producing
> pounds and pounds of apricots annually...
>
> I have trouble finding dried fruits with no sulphate. Maybe I'll start
> drying my own. ;>
A coworker had a dehydrator they were not using and wanted to get rid
of, now we have a dehydrator we are not using, but not ready to get rid
of, yet. We want to try it before we bye-bye it.
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(Msg. 11) Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:16 pm
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Aaron wrote:
>> <snip>
>> I bought a dehydrator today. I'm gonna have to dehydrate a
>> looooooooot of apricots to make the dehydrator cost less than the
>> dried apricots I buy annually. But it appears I have a tree that will
>> be producing pounds and pounds of apricots annually...
>>
>> I have trouble finding dried fruits with no sulphate. Maybe I'll
>> start drying my own. ;>
>
>
> A coworker had a dehydrator they were not using and wanted to get rid
> of, now we have a dehydrator we are not using, but not ready to get rid
> of, yet. We want to try it before we bye-bye it.
Well, apricots don't seem to be too hard to dry. :>
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(Msg. 12) Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:27 pm
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Aaron wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>>> Fruit leather? I've never heard of it!
>>>>
>>>> Well, Mummy Az suggested it...
>>>>
>>>> I believe it is *supposed* to turn out looking like a "fruit
>>>> roll-up". Dried fruit, pureed before drying so you can dry it in
>>>> sheets or strips.
>>>>
>>>> Mine looks more like a magnification of a shattered windshield.
>>>
>>> Sometime in the future...
>>>
>>> m_thomas: It's a new dish I invented. It's called "fruit brittle".
>>>
>>> Friend: How did you come up with it?
>>>
>>> (m_thomas smiles mysteriously.)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> <big grin!>
>>
>> Thoughtfully... I'd try it, but I suspect fruit alone won't
>> crystallize. The brittles I've eaten all had a high sugar
>> concentration; sugar crystallizes well.
>>
>> I bought a dehydrator today. I'm gonna have to dehydrate a
>> looooooooot of apricots to make the dehydrator cost less than the
>> dried apricots I buy annually. But it appears I have a tree that will
>> be producing pounds and pounds of apricots annually...
>>
>> I have trouble finding dried fruits with no sulphate. Maybe I'll
>> start drying my own. ;>
>
> A coworker had a dehydrator they were not using and wanted to get rid
> of, now we have a dehydrator we are not using, but not ready to get rid
> of, yet. We want to try it before we bye-bye it.
>
I tried drying tomatoes in a dehydrator once. I then had to throw the
whole darned thing away because of the mold. Somehow, it just didn't
do what it claimed it would.
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(Msg. 13) Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 8:41 am
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On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:51:38 -0500, Bookwyrm <Bookwyrm.DeleteThis@comcast.net>
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>Rhino 7 wrote:
> <sigh> Oh well, can't be an expert at everything I suppose.
>>
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>You can't???????????????????????????
><boggle>
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>d&r,
>'wyrm
Well **you** might of course, your seniorness ....
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(Msg. 14) Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 8:43 am
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>Did you pre-treat with sodium bisulphite? I believe that's
>what the commercial people do.
No ma'am. And I only tried it once, not being happy with the results.
I ended up using it much more for herbs.
>That means I'm already used to, ah, a firm texture in my
>dried fruit, and I prefer it that way. :>
Well, with braces and a dislocated (kinda) jaw, i'm sticking to soft
stuff for the most part. Crunchy I can manage from time to time, but
chewy is right out. <wink>
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(Msg. 15) Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:52 am
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On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 23:16:37 GMT, "m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"
<"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"@earthlink.net> wrote:
>Aaron wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>> I bought a dehydrator today. I'm gonna have to dehydrate a
>>> looooooooot of apricots to make the dehydrator cost less than the
>>> dried apricots I buy annually. But it appears I have a tree that will
>>> be producing pounds and pounds of apricots annually...
>>>
>>> I have trouble finding dried fruits with no sulphate. Maybe I'll
>>> start drying my own. ;>
>>
>>
>> A coworker had a dehydrator they were not using and wanted to get rid
>> of, now we have a dehydrator we are not using, but not ready to get rid
>> of, yet. We want to try it before we bye-bye it.
>
>Well, apricots don't seem to be too hard to dry. :>
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