our garden has been flourishing. it is finally time for harvesting some of our apples.
First, we had to wash the apples and sort them into two categories: apples good enough to be apple chips and ugly apples to be made into apple butter which would be turned into fruit leather.
Apple chips:
- Slice, peel, core
- soak in an acid solution for 5 mins (I used lemon juice)
- place in a single layer in dehydrator on low over night
- I may put these in the oven crisp them up a little bit more
Apple butter :
- slow cooker for 4 hrs to soften and then pressed in the food mill.
- back into the slow cooker with spices and sweetener for 8 hrs
- then ladled onto leather sheets into the dehydrator for 8 hrs
final results TBA
Meriah J Tigner 