Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Sunny Lemons

Today is all about Sunny Lemons, we have a small lemon tree in our vege garden area and it is full of fruit. I love anything lemon especially if its very tart.

Drying lemon peel and what to do with it.

First off i scrub the lemons with a small nail brush to remove any dirt. The water in the green tub will be tipped onto the garden when im finished instead of going down the drain.

I use a sharp knife to peel the skin off the lemon, you don't want too much of the pith [the white]. As you can see above most of the pith still remains on the lemon.

If the slices are too long cut or tear them so they sit flat-ish on the dehydrator tray. I ended up with 5 trays of peel from 16 lemons. When using your dehydrator you use the same amount power if you do 1 tray or 10 trays so if you can, fill up the other trays with other items.
This day i added one tray of parsley, one of pac choy and one of bread so all 10 trays are full. Those trays will go on top as they will finish drying quicker than the peel.

As you can see above, i also did two trays of orange peel as well.

Six hours at 55 degrease Celsius and this is the result, crispy hard peel.

This is my first visit to your blog.I like your idea to dry lemon peel. I can't believe I haven't thought about doing that. Do you make lemon salt or lemon seasoning for fish and chicken? I hope you get a chance to visit me too.

We enjoy drying our peels also for various things around the house. I am wondering though, does the bread have a lemon flavor or smell when you dry them together? I am always nervous to mix kinds in the dehydrator because of this... Thank you for sharing on the Art of Home-Making Mondays. I do hope you join us again this week :)