Heart to Hearth Cookery

Drying currants

The sun has been bright and hot this summer and on Sunday I put the sun to use drying red currants.  The sun was so hot that I did not need to use my bake oven drying rack in a slack oven after a baking day.  The center unit of my drying rack is filled with lucious red currants and drying in the sun.  I finished the drying in my van on my dashboard!  The sun’s rays are intensified by the windshield and the drying of produce is very efficient.  I wish I could stay at an historic site long enough to complete the drying but that is usually not the case.  These dried currants will be used in many of the 17th century receipts that I prepare.

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