California Farm Sun Dried Apples

Name: How to cook California Farm Sun Dried Apples - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Snack: 10# fresh slices make 8# dry slices.
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Hobby Horseman

California Farm Sun Dried Apples

Apples ripen all at about the same time, a blessing but also a dilemma, one good backyard apple tree produces easily over 100 apples. The 20 best and largest ones are for hand eating, half a pound each or more. The next 20 to make 4 apple pies. Another 20 to make 5 quarts of apple sauce for freezing. From your 20 most blemished apples, as well as the peels, cores, and ends from the other apples, you make pints of apple cider. The remaining apples can be sliced and sundried, eaten as a snack or used to make tea. Here is how.

Ingredient

Food ration :

Snack: 10# fresh slices make 8# dry slices.

Cooking time :

1 hour prep, 2 days drying

large Granny Smith or Golden Delicious apples, half pound each, 10 lbs. fresh makes 8 lbs. dry

gallon

water

2 Tbs

canning salt for blanching

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

No need to peel or core apples. Dip 1/4” apple slices in salt water to blanch them a few minutes. Lay slices lenghtwise over cardboard boxes to dry, full sun, pointing southward. Each apple makes about ten full slices.

* Step 2

Make about 200 slices, drop slices in bucket with saline solution of 2 Tbs per gallon of water, stir well to blanch, keep slices from sticking together. Spread slices on cardboard. Cover with mesh to keep the bugs out. Put rocks on the ends of the mesh to keep from blowing away.

* Step 3

For apple sauce, Use apple corer/ slicer. Hand operated tabletop slicer peels, cores, and slices apples faster. Use cores and peels to make applesauce. Blanch, spread processed apples on drying table, same as above.

* Step 4

Dry slices in sun one full day. Check second day, flip ones that still feel moist. Third day, feel and taste a slice. Once chewy, Leathery, dry and sweet, pack loosely in paper shopping bag, store in dry closet, fold and close top with clothes pin to keep insects out. Eat like candy, or use one slice in a cup, pour boiling water over, steep, serve with lemon and honey. Enjoy!