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["Jim Notkey" <nottke1@earthlink.net>]

We dry ours in a forced hot air dryer.
If you blanch them very quickly in boiling water, or pour boiling water
through them in a collander, the surface wax is disrupted and they shrink
like grapes-to-raisins.
We prefer to put them on the dryer as-picked - they dehydrate but maintain
most of their fresh fruit shape and color.
Dehydrated berries are great for baking, adding to blueberry cobbler or pie
to absorb liquid and intensify flavor, or adding to trail mx.
Jim Nottke


> [Original Message]
> From: E.C. Pasour <pasour@ncsu.edu>
> To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: 10/27/2005 11:50:57 AM
> Subject: [NAFEX] drying blueberries
>
> I have both highbush and rabbiteye type blueberries and would like to 
> know if is feasible to dry them--as it is with other fruit. If it is, 
> how is the best way to do it?
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