Making & Using Dried Foods [Paperback]

Phyllis Hobson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 8, 1994

Dry and store fruits, vegetables, grains, meats, and herbs with these simple, step-by-step instructions. Includes dozens of recipes and plans for building your own food dryer.

 

Editorial Reviews

Review

“Easy, economical and nutritious, drying is a natural, great-tasting alternative to canning or freezing.  Includes instructions for drying almost everything with or without a commercial dehydrator, and more than 200 delicious recipes using dried foods.”  - Countryside & Small Stock Journal

From the Back Cover

Try the newest old-fashioned way to preserve food!

Easy, economical, and nutritious, drying is a natural, great-tasting alternative to canning or freezing.

Whether you use the sun, your oven, or a purchased dehydrator, getting started is easy with Making & Using Dried Foods. There are even complete plans for building your own food dryer.

Simple step-by-step instructions guide you through the process of drying and storing more than a hundred kinds of fruits, vegetables, grains, meats, and herbs. And when you're ready to use your bounty, just choose from dozens of recipes for using dried foods in nutritious and delicious snacks, soups, and entrees.

--granola
-- tomato pesto
-- turkey jerky
-- apple-cherry muffins
-- herbal teas
-- fruit roll-ups
-- pumpkin bread
-- soup mixes

 

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC (January 8, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0882666150
• ISBN-13: 978-0882666150
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,348 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #25 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Canning & Preserving

More About the Author

Phyllis Hobson is the author of several Storey Books and Garden Way Publishing titles including Satisfying Soups, Making & Using Dried Foods, Raising a Calf For Beef, and Tan your Hide! She lives in Zapata, Texas.

Customer Reviews

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88 of 91 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Compare to How to Dry Foods, February 1, 2004

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Thomas F. Hooker "bulmabriefs144" (Accomac, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Making & Using Dried Foods (Paperback)

This has more methods of drying (including sun-drying), it has information on pretreating foods.

How to Dry Foods on the other hand has metric to american conversion, and it tells how long specific foods last while dry.

If you want methods buy this book, if you want specific facts, buy How to Dry Foods. Personally, I'm buying this one.

93 of 97 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Similarities to previous out of print Garden Way Book, May 9, 1997

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This review is from: Making & Using Dried Foods (Paperback)

This book will be a happy surprise for those of you who are looking for the out of print and hard to find "Garden Way's Guide to Food Drying" by Phyllis Hobson. This is basically the same book, with all the tips and hints for drying vegetables, fruits and herbs, but with even more recipes than the out of print book. Both the author and the publisher are the same.

55 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Making and using dried Foods, June 16, 2008

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Judith Imgrund "Judy I" (Marshalltown, Iowa USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Making & Using Dried Foods (Paperback)

I'm a first time drier and got several other book on this subject but this is my favorit. Highly recommend.