Sun Drying the Fruit

After we sulfured the fruit, we laid it out in the sun to finish the dehydrating process.

Four days later, the big juicy halves of fruit are shrinking and starting to look like "dried" fruit. There is space in the once crowded fruit trays. The halves are still very moist and gooey and will not store at this point and it will take several more days to finish.

The black plastic we laid down on the ground has really helped the drying process. We are tasting and testing the fruit and feel some of the smaller fruit is ready to be removed from the trays and put into storage. Our testing process was to break the piece in half and see how moist the interior was. We really liked our fruit to be moist but were concerned that it wouldn't store well unless it was drier. So we decided a little moist, but not gooey, was perfect.