SC - BrusselsSprouts

[Diana Haven]

Lainie,

How do you make fruit leathers?

This is one of the methods I was looking for in the florilegium but failed
to find. I'm hoping that if I can make them successfully I can wean my child
minder off commercial candy, and onto these instead : ) 

Karin


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Laura C Minnick [SMTP:lainie at gladstone.uoregon.edu]
> Sent:	Tuesday, June 22, 1999 12:13 PM
> To:	sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject:	Re: SC - Soft fruit glut.
> 
> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Oughton, Karin (GEIS, Tirlan) wrote:
> 
> > 	Folks,
> > 
> > 	Myself and a friend are going soft fruit picking in a couple of
> > weeks time , and given past experience we usually bring home a boot  (
> > sorry, trunk : )   ) load of fruit, far more than we can eat in one go!
> > 	We've thought of making jam, freezing, making cordials, etc. 
> > 	What would traditionally have been done with a glut of soft fruit to
> > preserve it for the winter? Any one got any favourite recipes? The
> fruits we
> > are looking at are strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries and  possibly
> > bramble berries although I think that will almost certainly be later in
> the
> > year given the weather conditions. If we are lucky we may also pick up
> some
> > black and red currants.
> > 	I tried trawling through the Florilegium , but couldn't find much (
> > maybe I'm looking in the wrong place? ) 
> 
> 
> O how I wish I could go with you! That sounds like a lovely outing!
> 
> As to traditional preserving methods, to your list I would add drying, and
> fruit leathers. Both are fairly easy if you have a dehydrator or an oven
> at very low temp. My kids mow through dried fruit and fruit leathers as
> though they were candy. 
> 
> Don't forget to make the traditional currant jellies, and I will wish I
> was there to help eat them!
> 
> 'Lainie
> -
> Laura C. Minnick
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> 
> 
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