Drying Cranberries
Kathleen Schuler
to dry cranberries as gifts and as ingredients for many holiday goodies.
All I seem to be able to acheive are small, red, sour rocks! What am
I doing wrong?!
I have looked all over the Net and my local library and non of the
preserving cookbooks cover cranberries. If anyone has any suggestions,
please pass them on.
Thanks in advance!!
Eve Dexter
>Thanks in advance!!
2 reasons...
1. The most likely one is that you are leaving them in the dehydrator
too long...Don't discard them, just cover with boiling water for a few
minutes and they will plump for baking, etc.
2. If you can set the heat and/or the venting system for your machine,
perhaps you could arange a lower temp and/or close the vents to
prevent the berries from getting too dry.
Watch the racks as they dry since some machines dry the lower racks
faster than the upper. If this is the case with your machine, rotate
the racks several times during drying to make for a more even moisture
loss.
Good Luck
Eve
eve...@hookup.net
Ontario, Canada
Steve Knight
k> I need some help. I have just aquired a new food dryer and am trying to
k> dry cranberries as gifts and as ingredients for many holiday goodies.
k> All I seem to be able to acheive are small, red, sour rocks! What am I
k> doing wrong?!
The temp was too high on mine and I toased them (G)
Our OS Which art in CPU -Unix be thy name.
Eric Decker
>to dry cranberries as gifts and as ingredients for many holiday goodies.
>All I seem to be able to acheive are small, red, sour rocks! What am
Nothing. The nature of the berry, a tough skin, is against you. Extract the
pulp, seive as required, dehydrate the pure pulp into a fruit leather.
Enjoy!
M. Counides
sweeten them. If you want a sweet product make leather. Put cranberries
in the blender with sugar or honey. You could add and apple or two or an
orange. Put as little liquid in as will suffice to get your blender to
work. Puree the mess and taste it. Get a sweet-tart balance which
appeals to you.
Put plastic wrap on your dehydrator trays. Pour some of your cranberry
glop on it. Tilt it around a bit to spread it. Dry it. When it is done
fold in the edges of the pastic wrap and roll it up. A fwe rolls tied
with a bow could be a nice gift.
Jojo
them in freezer bags. They keep really well, so I prefer freezing to
drying. That makes it a little hard to give them as gifts, but you
could always bake gifts that have cranberries in the recipe... I don't
think you'll have much luck drying cranberries and ending up with a
sweet product.
Marie Martinek
single one of them with a serious hole-maker (the sticker that comes with
the meat thermometer) and soaking them in a sugar solution, they still
came out sour and still not dry after twice as long a time as the
instructions said. I, however, tried making cranberry sauce, whirred it
through a blender/food processor, and made fruit leather with it. Worked
quite well. Cover your dryer frames with waxed paper and pour the goop
on (making sure it's higher on the edges than in the middle), dry until
it looks right (I don't have the timing instructions here), then cut it
into strips, peel the paper off the fruit (works better than trying to
peel fruit off paper), curl them up, and dry some more.
--
Marie Martinek
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. USA
mv-ma...@nwu.edu