My mother has a giant cherry tree in her back yard and this year (as with most years) they have more cherries then they know what to do with. I took some off their hands thinking I'd make a pie or 2. I received 2 grocery bags full.
That's a crap ton of cherries if you didn't know.
Thought to myself what can I do to save these delicious red jewels because they weren't going to last long enough for our house to devour them. I came up with raisins.
Ok well not raisins but dried cherries.
I don't own a dehydrating machine so I thought I'd do it the old fashioned way and dry them in the oven (opposed to the old old fashioned way of drying them in the sun).
After 7 hours they were finally ready.
and they taste AH-mazing!
So I did the smart thing and borrowed my mother's food dehydrator (which I believe is older then I am BTW) and made a large batch.
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| clean and cut cherries |
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| 170 is the lowest my oven goes. |
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| This is a sexy retro beast! |
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| 7 hours later we have yummy cherry raisins |
And with my newly made dried cherries I made homemade granola. I substituted the British Golden Syrup with plain maple syrup and added the dried cherries. They taste super yummy.
