How to oven dry fruit

Yield: 1 Servings

Measure Ingredient
8 \N Peaches; Pits Removed, Halved Or Quartered
12 \N Plums; To 14, Pits Removed, Halved Or Quartered
10 \N Apricots; To 11, Pits Removed, Halved Or Quartered
10 \N Plum cots; Pits Removed, Halved Or Quartered
12 \N Figs; Halved
2 bunches Seedless Grapes; Removed From Stems, Small Bunches
2 tablespoons Sugar; Or More To Taste

Each quantity below fills one baking pan. Any fruit to be dried should be ripe but still firm. Store dried fruit in an airtight container, frozen, up to six weeks; warm frozen fruit in a 200F oven until soft, 5 - 15 min.

Heat oven to 225F. Line a baking pan with parchment paper. Arrange fruit, cut sides up, spaced ½ - 1" apart, on paper. Sprinkle 1 Tbsp sugar over fruit; depending on fruit's tartness, add more sugar.

Transfer pan to oven; dry until fruit has shriveled, edges have dried, and centers are still juicy; timing will vary according to variety of fruit, ripeness, and size, 1½ - 4 hrs. If juices start to run, baste with juices every hour. Transfer pan to a cooling rack; remove from pan while still warm.

Recipe by: Martha Stewart Living Sept 1998 Posted to EAT-LF Digest by Reggie Dwork <reggie@...> on Sep 16, 1998, converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.

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