Preserve Your Blueberry Harvest By Dehydrating
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Blueberries are delicious and our family loves them, but they can turn bad so quickly! In order to better preserve the harvest, we choose to dehydrate our blueberries so we can use them all year long.
There are just a few easy steps to make your very own dehydrated blueberries. 1) Wash your berries and pick through them to remove any stems, bad berries, or leaves. 2) Spread the berries out on the dehydrating screens and place in your dehydrator. 3) Turn the dehydrator to the fruit setting, if you have it, and shut the door. Let the berries dehydrate until they are completely dry. For me that's somewhere around 24-36 hours.
Your berries will look completely different when they are dehydrated than the dried fruit you may be used to seeing in the store. When you dehydrate, you remove nearly all of the moisture from the fruit, whereas when you simply dry the fruit you leave a fair amount of the moisture, so the fruit is still slightly chewy. While neither method is necessarily *wrong*, dehydrated foods tend to store better and for longer periods of time.
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Who knew there was a difference between drying and dehydrating? Love learning on Hometalk!
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I absolutely LOVE blueberries. I am going to go to google right now and investigate how and when to plant! I need me some blueberry bushes! I doubt I will ever have a crop big enough to hydrate! HA!
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