[Sca-cooks] Roysonys of courance

[Stefan li Rous]

Lyse commented:
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As I am a bit fog brained right now, so I can't remember the source.  
But you can dry fruits if you have the warmth/heat,and air current.  
You don't need the sun. So, if there is a hearth perhap there is a  
place to dry them when harvested.
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Sure. You can do that on a small scale. However, doing it in a  
commercial operation takes fuel. Fuel is expensive and adds  
tremendously to the cost. There is a reason that most commercial  
evaporative salt mining from seawater was done in the Mediterranean  
and why Iceland was short of salt in period.

Even if you have the fuel, you also need a fairly dry humidity simply  
so the fruit doesn't mold before the fruit has sufficiently dried.

Stefan
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