Comments on: Dry It! You’ll Like It! http://greencouple.com/2008/08/22/dry-it-youll-like-it/ Learning to live green and live together Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:59:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Maggie http://greencouple.com/2008/08/22/dry-it-youll-like-it/#comment-2006 Maggie Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:49:10 +0000 http://greencouple.com/?p=337#comment-2006 You can totally freeze peaches. I would check out "Keeping the Harvest" as a great resource book for canning, freezing, and drying. I think they recommend using a sugar pack for peaches but I just chopped mine up and froze them. We'll see how they do! Drying isn't too hard but if you start out with a little K-Mart food dryer like I did you have to be prepared to watch it and rotate things around because the little dryers just don't dry very evenly, in my experience. I plan to try air drying some apples this fall and see how they do. I know folks who dry over woodstoves but that really doesn't sound appealing in August. :) You can totally freeze peaches. I would check out “Keeping the Harvest” as a great resource book for canning, freezing, and drying. I think they recommend using a sugar pack for peaches but I just chopped mine up and froze them. We’ll see how they do!

Drying isn’t too hard but if you start out with a little K-Mart food dryer like I did you have to be prepared to watch it and rotate things around because the little dryers just don’t dry very evenly, in my experience. I plan to try air drying some apples this fall and see how they do. I know folks who dry over woodstoves but that really doesn’t sound appealing in August. :)

]]> By: Andy http://greencouple.com/2008/08/22/dry-it-youll-like-it/#comment-2001 Andy Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:07:46 +0000 http://greencouple.com/?p=337#comment-2001 Just bought 8 quarts of peaches today and plan on drying a bunch also, maybe can some too. Any idea if you can freeze them? I froze 27 pounds of tomatoes last year, and I plan on doing that again. Just bought 8 quarts of peaches today and plan on drying a bunch also, maybe can some too. Any idea if you can freeze them? I froze 27 pounds of tomatoes last year, and I plan on doing that again.

]]> By: Mishlor http://greencouple.com/2008/08/22/dry-it-youll-like-it/#comment-1994 Mishlor Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:45:08 +0000 http://greencouple.com/?p=337#comment-1994 I am very jealous. I love dried fruit and things. Maybe I should try doing it myself. I am very jealous. I love dried fruit and things.

Maybe I should try doing it myself.

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