peaches minus juce =

I feel like such an idiot.

I grew up in a family that canned.... a fair amount. (Understatement)
And naturally I'd get drafted. (Like every kid, I didn't appreciate it, I'd rather be reading or playing in the woods.)

We also dehydrated quite a bit.
Jerkey sure, but mostly fruit.
Dried apple slices and fruit leathers were routine snacks.

Which leads me to today and feeling like an idiot.

I canned fruit juce (which I grew up doing) in this case peach, and I'm looking at the bowl of "leftovers" and since I hate waste I'm looking at it thinking "what can I use this for?" (Other than feeding chickens)

....when I realized.... looking at the texture... I'm looking at fruit leathers.
(And NOW I know why there were always so many around! It was my depression era Grandmother's refusal to throw ANYTHING useful away!)
Which I seem to have inherrited.

I'm not going to do it now, I'll stick it in the freezer and probably make it in my new wood cookstove this winter.
But I wanted to laugh at myself and help share... I guess the usefulness, and not to throw anything away.
I must of eaten thousands of the things and it just never crossed my mind.... juce first (I always disconnected those tasks in my head some kind of way....) leathers later.

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peaches minus juce =