Homemade Strawberry Fruit Leather

Total Time: 16 hrs 25 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 16 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 15
• 2 1/2 cups strawberries (enough to make 2 cups of pulp)
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1/4 cup sugar

Recipe

• 1 place some plastic over a rimmed sheet tray and brush it with olive oil.
• 2 dice strawberries into small pieces and put them in a pit with a bit of water. add a squirt of lemon juice and stew them, mostly covered, until very soft and mushy.
• 3 allow fruit to cool slightly, then transfer fruit to a blender and blend until mostly smooth. taste, add sugar as necessary, and blend again. (don't add too much sugar - the leather will become sweeter as it cooks anyway!).
• 4 pour the mixture onto the plastic-covered tray and use a spatula to spread evening over the tray to 1/8-1/4 inch thickness.
• 5 preheat oven to 150 degrees (you may have to crack the oven door to keep the temperature that low). place tray in oven and leave for 6-8 hours.
• 6 invert the fruit leather onto another baking sheet covered in plastic or silicon baking pad, and oil, and remove the first lining. place in the oven for another 6-8 hours. if it becomes too brittle at any point, simply brush on water with a pastry brush to rehydrate it.
• 7 cool the sheet tray and cut the fruit leather into desired sizes. dust with corn starch to prevent sticking, cover in plastic and store in a cool place in a sealed container.