I have decided to use the current situation to become even more cottage core. So, for the foreseeable future this blog will be documenting my progress. Should I have started a month ago when I taught myself to make proper biscuits? Probably. Am I starting it now that I’ve made several other things throughout the last week? You bet your ass I am.
Number one is dried apples:
For context, my family recently acquired a dehydrator, a large amount of apples, and an apple-peeler-corer-slicer attachment for our kitchen aid. (Fun fact: those are freaking dangerous, I alone ended up with three cuts on various fingers). So, we spent the first couple days of the week slicing, pretreating, and arranging them on the trays.
Number two: Dried strawberries
On Monday morning, my lovely mother came home with 8lbs of strawberries, as they were on sale, to try drying as well. So, we spent ~30 minutes slicing and arranging them (they don’t need to be pretreated). My dad requested more strawberries and offered $5 to anyone willing to prepare and start them drying. I, remembering how simple and quick it was before, readily agreed. Only to spend ~1.5 hours slicing strawberries, and nearly give up multiple times.
Number three: Strawberry powdered sugar
This morning whilst removing the strawberries from the dehydrator, I mused about how they were dry enough to grind up and sprinkle on stuff. So I did that. And I added some sugar to help keep it from sticking to itself and everything else. So now I had what is probably the tastiest powdered sugar I’ve ever had, and I was thinking of what to do with it. I considered a popcorn topping, which sounds amazing. My dad suggested I add buttermilk powder to make a strawberry cheesecake flavor. However, at around 1:15pm pst I made the fateful, delicious, decision to revisit an old friend, glutenfreeonashoestring’s yeast raised gluten free donuts. On this occasion, they rose the best they ever have, and the entire batch was consumed by my family within an hour’s time. On half, I used a simple cinnamon glaze ( powdered sugar, cinnamon, milk), which are the brown ones in the picture. All things considered, this has been a smashing success.
