I like to use apple sauce as the base
for my fruit leather for two reasons. First, it dries out very well. I’ve
always had consistent results with a jar of applesauce turned into fruit
leather. Second, other flavors can easily dominate the apple flavor making it
easy to create flavored fruit leather that turns out wonderful.
Take a large jar of apple sauce,
and dump it into a large bowl.
Get out your fruit puree or pure
fruit juice. This is blackberry juice that was left over from making jam.
Pour two cups of juice or puree
into the bowl with the apple sauce.
Mix thoroughly.
Find your fruit leather trays for
your dehydrator. Here is what they look like.
I know you can make fruit leather
in the oven as well, but I’m not sure how so I use a dehydrator.
Pour 2 to 2 1/2 cups of the fruit
mixture into each tray.
Put the left over mixture into
small Tupperware cups and eat as flavored applesauce. Yum!
Stack your trays and put the lid
on. I have three fruit leather trays, that is why there are three layers. The
leather will still work if you only have one or two trays. Set the temperature
for 140°
F and come back in 8 to 10 hours.
The fruit leather should be dried
out, but not brittle, if it is brittle the cooking time should be decreased by
one or two hours.
Carefully peel the leather off
the tray.
Rip the ring into thirds and
store between wax paper.
Enjoy!
