Deni Food Dehydrator 7100 - Manual (Page 10)

9
FRUITS THAT DRY BEST
Fruit Preparation Uses Suitability
For Leather
Apples Core and slice in 1 /
4 ” snacks, granolas Excellent:
ring. cookies, fritters combines with
most other fruits
Apricots Halve & pit. meat dishes, Excellent: a
salads, desserts, pinch of sodium
baking
bisulfite per
quart of puree
holds color
Bananas Slice lengthwise or baking, snacks Best in
crosswise 1 / 4 ” thick. combination,
Barely ripe bananas color turns dark
hold color & flavor best.
Berries Only strawberries dry snacks, in Excellent
well. Berries with seeds cereal
do not dry well. Slice
3 / 8 ” thick.
Cherries Remove stems & pits. snacks, use Excellent:
Dry whole or halve. as raisins almond extract
is a nice flavor
Fruit Preparation Uses Suitability
and Pretreatment For Leather
Coconut Drain the milk, crack snacks, baking Use grated as
& remove meat, slice agarnish for
1 / 4 ” thick. other fruit
leathers
Figs Remove stems; halve snacks, baking Only in
or quarter, dry skin combination
side down.
Grapes Seedless varieties only, snacks, baking Fair to good,
dry as is, or skins may depending on
be cracked by steaming. type of grape.
Papayas Peel and slice 3 / 8 ” thick.snacks Poor
Peaches Peel, pit, cut in 3 /
8 ” breads, Excellent: nice
rings. cookies sweetened with
cobblers honey, a pinch
of bisulfite per
quart holds
color*
Pears Peel and slice 1 /
2 ” snacks, baking Better in
thick. combination
Pineapple Peel and slice 1 / 2 ” snacks, baking Better in
thick in rounds. combination
Prunes Halve & pit, dry skin snacks, baking Excellent
side down.
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