{"id":8033,"date":"2020-06-15T11:31:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T16:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/?p=8033"},"modified":"2021-01-07T16:42:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T22:42:21","slug":"dried-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/2020\/06\/15\/dried-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Dried Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Plate 1.<\/span> Harvest-time maple leaves, Roark Mountain. October 5, 2008.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Dried Fruit<\/h1>\n

from How They Lived In The Ozarks<\/span><\/em> by Chick Allen\"Chick<\/h2>\n

Chick Allen, fourth generation in the Ozarks \u2014 of Indian blood \u2014 was born in a log cabin on the James River. This is the story of the way the early Indians and white settlers lived \u2014 and how they prepared their food without refrigeration. [The book also includes] some Hillbilly recipes.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

How to Dry Peaches:<\/h3>\n

Freestone peaches were used. They were cut in halves (not peeled) \u2014 they were the early peaches. They were laid out in the sun on a clean, white cloth, with the inside of the peach turned up to the sun.<\/p>\n

They were left until thoroughly dried (the peaches had to be brough in every night or before a rain). [Once dried] they were stored in a dry, warm place for the winter.<\/p>\n

When ready to prepare for the table, boiling water was poured over them. The skins were then slipped off.<\/p>\n

This is the time peach butter was made.<\/p>\n

Freestone peaches did not have to be cooked long and, when mushy, they were sweetened with sorghum and put in a wax-sealer jar, then sealed with wax.<\/p>\n

Cling peaches were used more for canned peaches and pickled peaches. A pickled peach was peeled and the seed left in, then put into jars and sealed like peach butter.<\/p>\n

How to Dry Apples:<\/h3>\n

All apples were peeled. They were cored and sliced in about eight pieces, then placed in the sun on a clean, white cloth until thoroughly dried.<\/p>\n

Usually the peaches and apples were put on the roof of a shed to dry. They were then put in a white cloth sack to be put out in the sun occasionally to keep dry; then stored in a warm, dry place.<\/p>\n

Then it was time to make apples butter. The fresh apples were peeled and sliced and cooked to a pulp, then sweetened with sorghum and flavored with cinnamon and canned like peach butter.<\/p>\n

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED October 5, 2008<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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