Cinda Webb

The flavors of fall are here at the Farmers’ Market (although I can still buy peaches, too!) and I was inspired to stock away some of my favorites.
The apples are Golden Delicious and I made the Spiced Apples from Well-Preserved by Eugenia Bone. This is the second time I have made these apples and I ran out of them recently when I made muffins so I am glad I now have seven jars of them on hand. I also made another batch of pears as I really like that recipe, too.

For my birthday this year I asked for a dehydrator and have been busy ever since drying things out.

This gift was prompted by my experiments with making fruit leather. I was spreading the fruit purée in jelly roll pans lined with parchment paper and cycling the oven on and off on it’s lowest setting and then placing the trays in front of a fan. Now I can use the special tray in the dehydrator and make the fruit leather so much more efficiently.

To date I have dried peach slices, apple slices, blueberries, strawberries, ginger slices, mango slices, pineapple slices, figs, carrot slices, and various fruit purées.

Peach fruit leather, yum!