Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site houxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxa!hok382 From: hok382@houxa.UUCP (P.CARSTENSEN) Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: fruit drying Message-ID: <373@houxa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 08:30:32 EST Article-I.D.: houxa.373 Posted: Tue Mar 6 08:30:32 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Mar-84 07:13:00 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 16 My mother dries fruit in her electric oven (from an n of about 2 we have deduced that it just doesn't work in a gas oven). She just turns the heat to 150 and opens the door periodically to let out steam and wipe moisture off the inside of the door (twice a day ~ periodically). When my parents have the wood stove working, she dries fruit about half way in the oven and then puts it on trays on the wood stove to finish. I think she has been experimenting with using a convection oven and that cuts the time by a factor of three or so (She got tired of waiting for my brother to build her a drier.) Incidentally, one of her most successful products is fruit leather: you put plums, peaches, apricots, or whatever in a blender and make slush of the fruit, add some sugar for stuff like plums with bitter skins, and dump the stuff on a cookie sheet (enough to fill about 1/2 - 3/4 ") and dry. She also dries apricots, apples, pears, and bananas.