{"id":4364,"date":"2009-09-12T01:08:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T07:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/?p=4364"},"modified":"2009-09-12T01:08:35","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T07:08:35","slug":"dried-fruit-rollups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2009\/09\/12\/dried-fruit-rollups\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Throw Out Spoiled Fruit Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4365\" style=\"border: 3px solid black; margin: 10px;\" title=\"fruit-roll-ups\" src=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fruit-roll-ups-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"fruit-roll-ups\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fruit-roll-ups-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fruit-roll-ups-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>You buy all this fresh fruit and then don&#8217;t get around to eating it all&#8230;what a waste.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, it makes your compost better but not really the best use of these fabulous berries.\u00c2\u00a0 I had some cherries that were starting to go bad and I just didn&#8217;t know what to do with them.\u00c2\u00a0 I had missed the point where I could still put them in the freezer and enjoy them this winter.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I remembered that my brother,<a title=\"nik mac\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/drumtolive\"> Nik Mac<\/a>, had a great way to mix fruit with all natural applesauce and make fruit rollups!\u00c2\u00a0 Minor issue, I don&#8217;t have a dehydrator and there are way too many bugs to use the sun as my drying source.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I found that you could put the tray in the oven at the lowest setting, mine is around 140 and put it in for a few hours, so I decided to try it.\u00c2\u00a0 I blended the cherries and then added some applesauce until it was liquid (medium thickness), then put it on a parchment paper covered cookie sheet.\u00c2\u00a0 It sat in the over for about 4 hours, and I did prop the door open a bit for some circulation.  It turned out so well!  I&#8217;m not going to be making product for the Rollup people anytime soon, but I&#8217;m definitely enjoying that dried cherry fruit jerky!<\/p>\n<p>It worked out well but seems a bit inefficient to spend that much energy and effort for every batch.  So here will be my new process:<\/p>\n<p>1) Take fruit that is going to spoil and blend until liquid.<\/p>\n<p>2) Add some All Natural applesauce<\/p>\n<p><em>2.5)\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to take the liquid batches and freeze them.\u00c2\u00a0 Then defrost and put several trays into the oven at once to conserve energy. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>3) Put parchment paper on cookie sheets and spread out the liquid fruit.<\/p>\n<p>4) Place in oven at lowest setting (~140), prop door open and let dry.<\/p>\n<p>5) When its not sticky anymore (4 hours), pull the trays out and roll.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!\u00c2\u00a0 If you have other ideas or exact measurements, let me know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You buy all this fresh fruit and then don&#8217;t get around to eating it all&#8230;what a waste.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, it makes your compost better but not really the best use of these fabulous berries.\u00c2\u00a0 I had some cherries that were starting to go bad and I just didn&#8217;t know what to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,559,23,225,560,101,93,209,485,561,21],"class_list":["post-4364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amy-mac","tag-dried-fruit","tag-fit-life","tag-fitness-tips","tag-fruit-rollups","tag-fruits","tag-health-and-fitness","tag-healthy-eating","tag-healthy-snacks","tag-low-cal-snack","tag-withamymac"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}