Thursday, April 24, 2008

Fruit Leather

Ingredients
2 large pears
3 small fuji apples
1 teaspoon cinnamon

Directions
Clean, core and dice pears and apples.
Place in a blender and add a small amount of purified water and cinnamon, process for approx. 30 seconds.
Pour mixture on teflex sheets and place trays in dehydrator.
Dehydrate for 6-8 hours, remove teflex sheets and flip fruit leather over. Continue dehydrating until desired moisture is obtained.
You can make a fruit leather using any fruit and any combination and amounts

Nut & Fruit Cookies

Ingredients
2 cups Walnuts (or any nuts of choice) soaked overnight
1 cup Sweet and sour dried or fresh apricots (or dried fruits of choice)
1 cup soaked Black Raisins (small cup)
2 bananas

Directions
Blend till the crumby consistensy, use a spoon to spoon the batter out on a
dehydrator plastic tray.
Dehydrate for 23 hours or until dry (do not overdry) at the temperature of 50 deg C.
Turn them over in 4 hours or when you see that one side is dry enough.
Experiment with your favorite nuts,seeds and fruits.
Use a combination of a fresh fruit and some dried soaked fruits with nuts.