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Article: Home-made fruit leather is ideal for lunches, hiking trails. (Originated from Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- August 30, 1993
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. _ Colorado's dry climate may be the bane of gardeners, but once the crop is harvested and washed, that dryness is ideal for making fruit leather.
Fruit leather has the texture of good leather _ soft and pliable. But the resemblance ends there _ fruit leather has a full, fruity flavor. The leather is made by drying thin layers of fruit pulp, which concentrates the fruit's natural sweetness. Because the moisture is gone, the fruit's nutritional values _ and calories _ also are concentrated. But fruit leather still is a low-calorie snack; a 1-by-17-inch strip of sweetened applesauce leather has about 40 calories. Another advantage: Fruit leather is a ...
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Article: Make fruit leather with your juicer.
Countryside & Small Stock Journal;
March 1, 2002 ;
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...COUNTRYSIDE: People who use steam juicers such as the Mehu Maija or the one in Lehman's catalog can make fruit leathers easily with the pulp. Spread it thin on wax paper and dry it in the sun, if you live in an arid climate, or in the ...
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