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Dehydrated Cinnamon Apples

Special Supplies:

*Food Dehydrator

*Apple Peeler/Slicer or a Spiralizer found on Amazon

Dried Apples

Ingredients and Instructions:

Cinnamon Mixture:

*1 to 2 tablespoons Cinnamon

*2 tablespoons Sugar

Mix together in a small dish. Then I added the mixture to a small salt shaker and then sprinkled on apples on the trays before stacking them in the dehydrator. (This is a bit messy, so if want to mix the cinnamon in the bowl of drained sliced apples and toss together until all slices are covered. Note: I like how the cinnamon attaches better by sprinkling on the cinnamon mixture.). Set aside while you prepare apples.

Apples:

*In a large glass bowl fill with 2/3 full cold water and add 1/4 cup Bottled Lemon Juice, to prevent browning on Apples. (Lemon Juice is optional).

*Wash and dry Apples. (I used around 8 apples. See your dehydrator instructions.

*Peel and slices apples and place slices into lemon water.

*After all apples are sliced; drain them from the lemon water.

*Place apples on to trays, make sure apples are going in the same direction to be able to fit as many apple slices as you can on the trays, be careful not to overlap apples. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar mixture. Note: If you chose to do the bowl method add cinnamon and sugar mixture to the bowl of drained apple slices before adding to the trays.

*Follow your dehydrators instruction’s for the length of time to be in the dehydrator. Our dehydrator took about 24 hours but this also depends on how on the thickness of the apple slices.

*After apples are dry you can store them in mason jars with food safe moisture packets to keep out moisture. If using moisture packets they will stay good at least 1 year. Note: If you store without moisture packets, eat dry apple slices within 6 months for best taste and quality.

Lindy

This was our first year growing black beans. I planted two rows about 12 feet long and gave us about 5 cups of dried black beans. They were easy to grow and you harvest them when the pods are dying up and starting to crinkle and get crunchy. I pulled up the plants about 2 weeks ago. I allowed them to dry on our covered patio for about a week to allow more drying. Then I pulled or cut the pods from each plant and allowed about another 5 days in a drying in a dry box/container (of your choice) until the black beans rattle inside their pods or start to pop open. You can place all the black bean pods in a bucket and crush the pods from the beans and then sift them to remove all the chaffing pieces or since I didn’t have very many I just opened them one by one into a bowl.

When beans have dried you can store them in mason jars with lid and add a moisture packet. They can be stored for 8-10 years at 70 degrees. If stored longer than this the dried beans can become too hard.

I found the following videos very helpful Here and Here.

For amending soil see our Garden Soil Prep and Lawn

I planted the black bean seeds about 1-2 inches deep and about 1 1/2 inches apart. I like to plant my seeds close together and the rows about 22 inches apart.

Note: I was later planting my seeds this year. It was the end of May.

*The white sprinkled around plants is a product called “kill-a-bug-two” , powder. We always get grasshoppers and black beetles that like to eat my leaves and this seems to help a lot. I try not together to get too much of powder on the leaves because it causes the leaves to dry and attract spider mites.

I water my garden 1-3 times a week during the summer depending on the hot weather, using soaker hoses.

I also used a water all-purpose fertilizer a couple of times during the growing season.