Homesteading Handbook vol. 5 Food Drying: How to Dry Vegetables

The Homesteading Handbook vol. 5 provides step-by-step instructions on how to dry many of the most popular dried vegetables found in stores. You dehydrate vegetables yourself at home for pennies on the dollar compared to what they'd cost when you buy them dried.

The following topics are all covered in detail in the this helpful handbook:

• The benefits of drying vegetables.
• How to dry any vegetable in 8 easy steps.
• Choosing vegetables to be dried.
• Proper washing and preparation of vegetables for drying.
• How to blanch vegetables to prevent them from browning while they dry.
• Solar, oven and machine drying.
• How to condition vegetables to ensure they're evenly dried.
• Pasteurizing vegetables to kill off harmful organisms.
• The best way to store dried vegetables.
• Step-by-step guides covering a variety of ways to dry 18 popular vegetables.