This SECRET INGREDIENT changed Everything (Fruit Leather Your Kids Will LOVE)
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Homemade fruit leather is such a treat, but until recently, I could never make it the way I remember from the grocery store as a kid… now, with my secret …
My mom made peach leather when I was under 10, 30+ years ago. Thanks for the wonderful flashback!
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I was wondering if it was pectin. My Mom made fruit leather for me as well as many other healthy snacks out of the garden with the dehydrator. She used pectin. This was a very long time ago.
Can one cool the fruit / pectin mix before pouring into dehydrator or will it thicken in route? Need to travel to electricity.
This is the content I want to see! Thank you Carolyn
I'm sure that someone has asked this question but I'm wondering what type calcium is used. Is it Calcium chloride, calcium carbonate or calcium acetate or other? Also, is it only that particular brand of pectin that will work with the calcium or will most pectin work? Thanks so much for your videos!
wonder how a natural apple pectin would work with the berries
what kind of blender are you using?
Hi! I love your channel! Do you use the 2 cups of concentrate as prepared or undiluted?
Could this be done on low in the oven if you didn't have a dehydrater
I used to make my cherry fruit leather with just fruit and a small amount of honey. It turned out great.
Is there a reason it is cooked? Seems it would retain more nutrition raw
It basically seems like a strawberry jam recipe…maybe I will try just dehydrating some of my rhubarb jam – it’s puréed. Can’t hurt to try!
Ball also makes a no/low sugar pectin.
I would use the Ace blender from Instant Pot for this recipe. It worked beautifully for strawberry refrigerator jam. It has a nice built-in heater.
Quince. Add a quince. I can quince in pints & 1/2 pints in the fall ( quince/membrillo roll ups are our favorite) but when you have fruits in the next summer you can add some of the canned quince & 😋
What is calcium water?
Great tips! Thanks! I’ll have to try the pectin next time. I use plastic lids from sour cream type containers to make individual portions of fruit leather. I spray them with Pam first. They keep the liquid from running off and you can make it thicker if you want and it is a more even depth.
This was awesome!!!!!
Looks really yummy……….
what if I don't have an dehydrator?
Im thinking place the whole piece on same size parchment, roll it up in a long tube then cut into 11/2 inch rolls
I use honey in my recipe, I like to cool it overnight in the refrigerator, the next day I spread it out in the tray. I find it easier to work with 🙂 I’m interested in try with pectin!
Can we use honey instead of grape juice concentrate??
Yes, how long are these shelf stable and how do you store them?
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Thank you sweet lady for being our Test Kitchen. I wish I had a mom or big sister like you
Fruit Leather the nutrient filled food Fruit Roll Ups have been imitating for decades until the delicious natural edible item has all but disappeared.
Unfortunately that pectin is not available in my country. We used to make it with my mom as kids and hers was thin but still soft, tasty and flexible. Trying to remember how she did it, as she definitely did not add pectin
Is there a source for that pomona pektin that ships to europe?
Yemmy
Nice!
I’d love to know what brand juice concentrate you’re using most are super heavy in sugar! My fruit leathers have always been so sticky! Definitely going to get some Panoma’s pectin!
Melissa Norris ( Modern homesteading channel) also uses that pectin, thanks for showing us this recipe !👍we love your channel!
Interested in doing leathers, will have check it out, thanks
You are adding sugar, but you are adding glucose, rather than sucrose. Your fruit leather will contain fructose, from the strawberries, and glucose, from the grape juice. It will not contain sucrose, which we get from cane or beet sugar.
Interesting. I used honey as a sweetener. Will try the pectin. How did you store them? Mylar with O2 absorbers? Vacuum sealed?
Could you pour this into a gummy bear tray???
I freeze dry strawberries and peaches. Yummy!😀
Unfortunately you poured all that hot healthy goodness onto the silicone and all those chemicals from the silicone went right into your food