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Renny's Recipes: Homemade Strawberry Fruit Leather

11/9/2017

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You know, getting an idea to do something you've never done before can be very exciting, but it can also be a lot of hard work. Lucky for you, I am putting in the work so you can learn from me and make your life a lot easier. As my mom told you in this post, I bought a bushel of apples from somebody in my church that was selling them. We decided to split them and I thought it would be fun to try making my own fruit leather. I've never made my own before, so I did some internet research on best practices, and I am going to share with you what did and did not work.
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In the midst of all this, strawberries were on sale at the grocery store again. So I bought four cartons and thought, "hey, I know! I'll make two kinds of fruit leather, in two ways!!!" I am so foolishly ambitious. I ran out of steam and only ended up making the strawberry fruit leather, because, pregnancy +visitors coming to town to stay with us this week = I do not get to doing the kitchen things I planned on doing. Lucky for you however, there are still apples left, and I am going to make some apple butter with them. So hold on to your hats for that!
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Making the puree was simple enough, and you can see the recipe below. I borrowed my parent's dehydrator (I really need to get me one of those). Here are a few tips.

1. In my internet research many people said you could use parchment paper to dehydrate your leather. That is a lie. Don't believe those people, they are not your friend.

2. My parents' dehydrator came with one fruit leather tray. The tray is really the best thing to use. I also tried to use nonstick lining paper. While it worked better than the parchment paper, it still didn't work as well as the tray that came with the dehydrator. If you want to do your own food storage and make your own healthy snacks I highly recommend buying your own fruit leather trays. I've provided a link below for your convenience.

3. Some dehydrators apparently have a temperature gauge as many places where I researched said to set your dehydrator for 140 degrees Fahrenheit. My parent's dehydrator does not have a temperature control. You just turn it on and let it to it's thing. So I would suggest checking your trays periodically and rotating them if necessary. My bottom tray was done right away and I feel like it got a little too dry in certain spots, while the upper trays still had wet spots.

4. Going along with evenness, try to spread out your puree as evenly as possible to avoid over drying certain spots.  I smoothed mine out as evenly as I could, and your edges are still going to dry first, but you don't want to ruin half your leather while you wait for the other half to dry.

If you use these tips going forward, making fruit leather really isn't too hard. Making the puree itself was quick and easy. I used my ninja to blend everything together and then poured it on one tray at a time. The wait comes from letting the dehydrator do it's work, but in the end you get a tasty snack that you know doesn't have weird added preservatives in it! Happy fruit leather making!
Strawberry Fruit Leather
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Christie Hawkes link
11/10/2017 11:10:50 am

Okay, you are much more adventurous than me, but that said, the fruit leather looks delicious and now I'm craving strawberries!

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Lindsey
11/17/2017 12:04:34 pm

It really wasn't that difficult! I believe in you!

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Marisa Franca @ All Our Way link
11/10/2017 01:44:18 pm

What a wonderful way to enjoy strawberries. We love strawberries and when they are in season we freeze as much as we can.

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Fiona Cambouropoulos link
11/14/2017 12:59:40 am

Strawberries makes me think of summer days, I can almost taste summer again with this #twinklytuesday

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Natalie link
11/14/2017 02:21:51 am

What a fab idea~looks great too x
#twinklytuesday

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Jamie link
11/14/2017 09:07:17 am

Yum, that looks amazing! I had that tray in mine, too, and didn't know what the heck it was for. I better get busy making some of this! :)

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Lindsey Hannan link
11/17/2017 12:04:00 pm

Glad I could help you figure it out! :)

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Lisa (mummascribbles) link
11/18/2017 12:56:38 pm

Anything strawberry based is always a win - this looks great. Thanks for linking up with #TwinklyTuesday

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