Garden of Hope: July 2011

Friday 1 July 2011

Strawberry Fruit Leather!!

Well I did it!! I made fruit leather for the first time!! Though I made it through the process successfully... I learned more of how it works:

1. Don't blend hot stuff in the blender... leads to a mess :)

2. The pan that you use to dry the leather matters... I need a better pan!!

3. If you don't want it to take more than 12 hours to dry, don't fill the pan so full!

4. And last, make more than one serving at a time... Only enough for a couple of days.

This is the recipe I used... I won't make you read it, but I thought it was a good one. I also had some idea of the process from this book... I love that book, very resourceful on allot of things!!

Well here are some pictures along the way!!

Boiling the Strawberries down.

Blending the Strawberries, to make a puree

Like I said... wrong kind of pan :) Here it is going in...

Here it is after about 30 hours of drying... Do you see my finger marks from when I was checking to see if it was done :)

Yummmy!! I love the color!

Here I am eating some... after ALL my hard work ;)

Hard to tear.... not really!!

Okay here it is... the picture you have been looking for... You can get me now... LOL

Well there you have it!! My first try at drying fruit... I have learned quite allot and can't wait to try other fruits or mixes of different kinds of fruits together!! Hope your first day of July is going well, I know from where I am at, I am enjoying the warm weather... and I can't wait until the 4th!!
~RebeccA

Psalms 8

O Lord, our Lord, how majectic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouths of babies and infants, you hve established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the advenger. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man to be mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yes you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him dominon over the works of you hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the path of the sea. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Psalms 1

Blessed in the man who walks not in the councel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the Lord and on his law he meditaes day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yeilds its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all he does, he prospers. This wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; for the Lord knows the was of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.