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| Raven | Oct 17 2011, 11:55 PM Post #1 |
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I found this and thought that it might help... http://www.realfood4realpeople.com/potatoes.html There are plenty of other great ideas and how to's in there as well. |
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| Mommacat | Oct 18 2011, 11:12 AM Post #2 |
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That's good info, Raven. Do you know if you can dehydrate yams or sweet potatoes the same way? I am going to buy a dehyrater within the next month - I've been doing small amounts of stuff in my oven, but it takes forever and yields such a small amount it hardly seems worth the effort! |
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| Raven | Oct 18 2011, 11:59 PM Post #3 |
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I looked up sweet potatoes in my book How To Dry Foods by Deanna DeLong and she states that the quality of dried sweet potatoes is only fair but the directions are as follows: Steam blanch 2 or 3 minutes or until almost tender and slice. Dry them at 140 degrees for 2 to 3 hours and then 130F until dry Rehydrate them to use as candied yams. You can also brown them, fry them or use in place of pumpkin in breads, pies, cookies and cakes. |
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| Mommacat | Oct 19 2011, 01:36 AM Post #4 |
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Thanks, Raven. I love sweet potatoes and would like to think of a way to keep them available. I am a little confused though. In reading the directions for dehydrating regular potatoes, it said to blanch them for 8 minutes. If they are sliced an 1/8 inch thick and boiled for that long, they will basically be cooked slices of potatoes that you then dry; right? |
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| Raven | Oct 19 2011, 09:38 AM Post #5 |
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I thought that 8 minutes was alot too. I ended up using the biggest pot that I could find, boiled the water and got the water back to a boil as soon as I could and then left it in for only 5 minutes at boiling. I tried leaving it in for all of the 8 minutes but it ended up mushy but I think that it might have been because it took so long for the water to come back to a boil. HF, you do alot of dehydrating, any tips? |
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| HandFarming | Oct 19 2011, 11:19 AM Post #6 |
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I haven't done taters but you have inspired me to give it try! Deanna Delong has some great guides, but every dryer is different so using the "dry till brittle" method is almost a sure fire way to check. For mushy taters, I wonder if you dried and ground them you'd get potato flour...which makes the best soft buns. Boy, you'd pay a lot for some of those recipes in a camping meal so ya can't go wrong. In the article, She said peel the taters, but when they just come out of the ground, the Yukons have no real skin. If they sit a bit they might get one. I usually just scrub them and start with them. I also found when fast drying foods (things that don't take being in the dryer all day), that sprinkling a bit of salt makes the drying go faster. Don't do it on foods like tomatoes, unless you want to reduce acid, but taters would be ok to salt. It doesn't take much salt. I think making dried taters and mixing up those recipes would mean some healthy fast cooking, which is something I strive for-grab off the shelf and heat it. Fast, easy and delicious. And it's a way to put away all those extra crops when life gives you abundance and keep it way past next harvest. I didn't know how to grow taters till last year and this year we had a mother load. I think I will grow even more next year if I get my knee back in shape...sitting with an ice pack on it now. Then I want to get Real adventurous and try chips, hash browns and fries for the Ice house and maybe dry a bunch...different sizes of diced, sliced, julianne,... Here's my trick to getting more and bigger potatoes-throw your ashes in with the potato seed. The more you put in-the more and bigger the potatoes are. Then, once the plants get high enough, throw on more as you mound them. You get double the crop of more potatoes, bigger ones and for some reason, less bugs. I got a large clothes basket out of every 25' row, and we did 15 or so rows....no wonder my knee is killing me...I'm definitely getting a potato plow to first dig the trench, then mound and finally dig them for next year. |
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| Raven | Oct 19 2011, 11:46 AM Post #7 |
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I never did peel the ones that I did...just sliced and cooked and dried. |
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| Mommacat | Oct 19 2011, 11:16 PM Post #8 |
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So, no answer on the how long to blanch the potatoes? I just can't think that fully cooked potato slices would hang together for drying and then storing? |
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| Raven | Oct 20 2011, 01:56 AM Post #9 |
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Mommacat the directions say to blanche for 8 minutes. I thought that was to long for potaotes cut that small so I blanched it out for 5 minutes and it worked just fine. |
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| Mommacat | Oct 20 2011, 03:27 AM Post #10 |
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Ahhh...okay, thanks! That seems better.
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