3 years ago

Making, freeze drying, and rehydrating apple pie filling
Making some apple pie filling to test Instant ClearJel for freeze drying and rehydrating.
We add some Alpine Spiced Apple Cider drink mix to the cut apple pieces to help flavor the pie filling
We picked about 86 lbs of apples at the beginning of October. We picked about 26 lbs of Golden Delicious and about 60 lbs of Fuji apples.

The apples at the U-pick apple orchard were only 50 cents a pound. We used some of the Golden Delicious apples to make this filling.

This is the orchard we've been going to for many years. https://www.facebook.com/Leonard-Orchard-220997921301038/

This video is NOT sponsored. We bought all the items in these videos,but we get commissions for some purchases made through links in this post.

This is the orchard we've been going to for many years. https://www.facebook.com/Leonard-Orchard-220997921301038/

Freeze dried food will stay fresh for many years and be ready and waiting when you need it.

We do videos showing how we are using our Harvest Right Freeze Dryer to freeze dry food for long term storage. (We have the medium size machine that we got in August of 2017) We talk about how to load and unload the freeze dryer, how to know if the food is dry, is it better to freeze dry raw food or cooked food, and do a few taste tests. Freeze dried food is also great for prepping or just for camping and snacking!

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We have the medium freeze dryer with the original vacuum pump.

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