One of our neighbours has several apple trees, a small orchard in fact, and in return for the girls 'helping' him pick some gifted us two huge boxes of both cooking and eating apples.
Small and Smallest can easily dispatch an apple or two each a day, but even so there was an abundance. I make apple butter each year (lovely on toast) and copious pies and crumbles but it always rankles a little when I have to add sugar and/or fat to fruit. This year I finally got around to making dried apple slices......with 'help'.
I found the corer a bit hit and miss, but Small happily cut out the core once I'd sliced them using the vintage sweet cutter we use for making peppermint creams at Christmas time.
The slices get soaked in water with a little salt and lemon juice (and it was Smallest's job to keep them ducked under) then slid on bamboo canes strung on hooks below the shelves in the airing cupboard. Now we wait a few days........
I have dried apples before in the oven but why use energy when you can do it for free with just a little more patience?
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