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Fruit Leather
Prep
20 mins
Cook
5 hrs
Servings
16
Difficulty
Hard
Making fruit leather at home is one of my favorite projects because it's surprisingly simple and uses just a handful of ingredients you likely already have. This chewy, naturally sweet treat combines apples and pears with a bright squeeze of lemon juice, and the best part? It costs just pennies to make compared to store bought versions. Pears are packed with fiber, which is wonderful for your digestion, and the whole process requires minimal hands on time, just about 20 minutes of prep before the oven does all the work. Once you taste homemade fruit leather, you'll wonder why you ever bought the packaged kind.
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Ingredients
- 11 cup sugar
- ¼ cup lemon juice¼ cup lemon juice
- 44 cups peeled, cored and chopped apple
- 44 cups peeled, cored and chopped pears
Detail level
Instructions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 150 degrees F (65 degrees C). Cover a baking sheet with a layer of plastic wrap or parchment paper.
- 2
In the container of a blender, combine the sugar, lemon juice, apple and pear. Cover and puree until smooth. Spread evenly on the prepared pan. Place the pan on the top rack of the oven.
- 3
Bake for 5 to 6 hours, leaving the door to the oven partway open. Fruit is dry when the surface is no longer tacky and you can tear it like leather. Roll up on the plastic wrap and store in an airtight jar.
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