directions
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BERRIES
ingredients
- Preparation: Use firm berries like blueberries,
- cranberries, elderberries, and currants. Wash and
- remove stems.
- Pretreatment: Plunge prepared berries with tough
- skins into boiling water for 15 to 30 seconds to
- crack skins, then into cold water to cool rapidly,
- and drain. Less tough-skinned varieties may be
- steam blanched for 30 to 60 seconds or dried with-
- out pretreatment.
- Drying time: Dehydrator: 6 to 10 hours, depend-
- ing upon fruit; oven: 2 hours at 120 degree F.,
- then 140 degrees F. about 2 hours more, or until
- dry; sun: 1 to 2 days.
- Dryness test: Hard. No moisture when crushed.
- Fruits rattle when tray is shaken.
- Refreshing: Cover with water and store in refriger-
- ator overnight. To cook, cover with water and sim-
- mer until tender.
- Storage time: 4 to 6 months at 70 degrees F.