Category: General Interest

Terry White posted this. I thought it worth sharing.

Instead of canning pumpkin and using up my low supply of canning jars, I dehydrated over 100 pumpkins. I can get 20 pie pumpkins into a quart-size jar. Canning would hold 1-1.5 pumpkins per quart jar. Huge difference, eh?

What I do is:
Wash whole pumpkin in soapy water and rinse.
Cut in half and remove the seeds.
Cut out the stem with a V cut and the bottom in the same manner.
Bake cut side down on a lined cookie sheet until a knife inserts easily.
Remove from oven and let cool.
Thinly slice the pumpkin and place in the dehydrator at 160 degrees until completely brittle.
Pulverize in a blender or coffee grinder
Once pulverized, place thinly and evenly on a cookie sheet and place in a 200-degree oven for about 30 min to remove all the moisture.
Place in sterilized, dry jars.

It will keep indefinitely.

To rehydrate, I measured 4 parts boiling water to 1 part dehydrated powder.

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And Vitamin C in Critically Ill Patients: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/10/3564