An alternative to the desert crisp to make use of abundant rhubarb and apples that happen to be on sale. Leathers are nice snacks that keep well and don't require a lot of space.
When we got the dehydrator oven we didn't know how much we would love dehydrated fruit chips. Dehydrated Fuji Apple chips or dehydrated Navel Orange chips get gobbled down quickly.
Fresh apples and/or Navel Oranges are sliced approximately 1/8" thin and spread on a drying rack in a 158 F oven. The apples are often sliced using a mandolin. The oranges are always sliced using a chef's knife. Our mandolin doesn't do well with the oranges. Both are usually done in less than 10 hrs. Then stored in Mason Jars until happily gobbled down. Great as snacks or as a light desert.
Fruit leathers are another solution for what to do with that bulk fruit purchase that was drug home. They make even more sense for consuming home grown produce, since it's very easy for a couple dollars worth of store purchased fruit to go into making a single leather/rollup!
The Recipe is from the Magic Mill Dehydrator manual. Recommends 800 g/leather. Typically go for 2 C of puree. That seems to work well.
