Food Drying Cookbooks

Dehydrating just got easier with the ''How to Dry Foods Cookbook'' by Home Economist Deanna DeLong. Everything you need to know about drying foods is included in this 160-page soft cover book. Lots of recipes, hints, and tips. Includes sections on fruit, fruit leathers, vegetables, herbs & spices, nuts & seeds, meat, and fish. Also covers the history, methods, and equipment for drying.

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Mary T. Bell has traveled all over North and Central America teaching others the secrets of food drying. Now, her thirty years of food drying experience can be yours in ''Food Drying with an Attitude''. It’s a book for everyone who is looking to eat healthier and cheaper, wishing to expand their dietary horizons, and for those who believe in finding ways to live a more sustainable lifestyle.

''Food Drying with an Attitude'' encourages readers to use dried foods all year. Vegetarians, hunters, gardeners, fishermen, gourmet cooks, and even fast-food enthusiasts will find inspirational new ways to enjoy their favorite foods.

Features
• Create unique gifts such as mint leaf candy, homemade paper, vegetable wreaths, soap, homemade candles, and potpourri.
• Make dry fruit and vegetable purées—everything from applesauce to thick liquids such as spaghetti sauce and vegetable soup.
• Prepare lightweight, portable dried foods.
• Treat your pets with homemade goodies.
• Integrate dried foods into cooking and baking to make breakfast, lunch, and dinner tastier and healthier.
• Make jerky, fruit roll-ups, herbs, bread, jelly, and much, much more!
• Learn how food dehydrators work.

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So you really want to learn to use your Nesco/American Harvest® dehydrator to the fullest? Then this is the book you need! Mary Bell's Complete Dehydrator Cookbook features 100's of recipes and great ideas. It's a 279-page, hard cover book loaded from front to back with information. This is what we use as a reference in our test kitchens! Everything you need to know to make delicious dried snacks, jerkies, fruit leathers, nutritious meals, and potpourri. Even includes pet-healthy recipes for dog and cat treats!

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If you love jerky, this is the cookbook for you. Mary Bell's Just Jerky Cookbook features 139 pages of great beef jerky recipes. Just when you thought you knew it all, she comes up with a new idea! Hot or mild, fish or meat, vegetarian or live game, this book covers it all, including complete meal ideas. Soft Cover. Perfect gift idea for the Jerky aficionado in your family! We use it here in our test kitchens.

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Keep the great meals coming with the Good Cooking Comes Naturally with Nesco® Cookbook. This 112-page, full-color cookbook was written by famous Nesco® Home Economist Virginia Olson. It features recipes for the 4 & 18 Qt. Roasters, or the 6 and 12 Qt. Roasters. Each features over 100 recipes and baking charts, including sections on roasting, baking, steaming, and cooking. Great for new meal ideas, from main meal entrees to deserts!

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