by Mary Bell
Everything you need to know to make delicious dried
snacks, jerkies, fruit leathers, nutritious meals, and even potpourri.
Use an electric food dehydrator to make hundreds of
delicious, inexpensive, healthful snacks and meals.
Far from being a fad, food dehydrating is one of the
most ancient, effective, and nutritious ways of preserving food. Now, at last,
there is a book that teaches absolutely everything there is to know about using
and electric food dehydrator to dry food at home - and gives more than 100 foolproof
recipes for scrumptious snacks and meals made from dried foods.
With this extraordinary book, you can learn how to
cross junk food and expensive store-bought snacks off your family's shopping list
- and add to your cupboard homemade, preservative-free fruit leathers, candied apricots,
beef (and fish) jerkies, "sun" dried tomatoes, corn chips, banana chips, and so
much more!
Mary Bell gives specific techniques and instructions
for preparing every kind of fruit (from apples to watermelon) and vegetable (from
asparagus to zucchini). She also provides important shopping tips for buying
and electric food dehydrator. The recipes for cooked meals (including mushroom
soup, sloppy joes, pesto, and moist banana bread) will make this book a kitchen
classic. And recipes for lightweight, filling trail snacks mean that the book
will travel, too.
Additional chapters explain how to make herb seasonings,
granolas, celery powder, cosmetics, dried fruit sugars, potpourri - and even pet
treats!
Food drying is an excellent way for gardeners to preserve
their produce. It is a great way to make healthful snacks for the kids.
It's perfect for the new wave of thrifty consumers who can't bear to spend dollars
at health food store for treats they could make for pennies themselves. And
food drying doesn't use chemicals or preservatives - so it's great for you and the
planet, too!
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About the Author:
Mary Bell's has spent more than twenty years traveling around the country
demonstrating food dehydrators and food drying techniques. When
not on the road, she divides her time between Madison, Wisconsin, and
Lanesboro, Minnesota, where she and her husband work at the Forest Resource
Center, an environmental education facility. She is a graduate
of the University of Wisconsin and holds a Master's degree from Saint
Mary's College.
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Hardcover,
280 pages; 6-1/2'' x 9-1/2''
ISBN 0-688-13024-0
