Re: Cooked fruit

[Guest guest]

> Ready for some variety. How do you do cooked, peeled, and deseeded

> blueberries, strawberries, blackberries? Really. Treat me like a

> child and tell

> me what to do, please.

>

> Angie

>

>

Angie,

I asked the same question last week and someone turned on the light

bulb.

You put them through a sieve. Why didn't some one just call them

" sieved " fruits and veggies? Let's do it from now on ;-)

Carol F.

Celiac, MCS, Latex Allergy, EMS

SCD 6 years

[Guest guest]

" You put them through a sieve. Why didn't some one just call them

" sieved " fruits and veggies? Let's do it from now on ;-) "

Works for me, although Google may get a lot of hits with people

looking up the definition of " sieved " .

Jody

mom to -7 and -9

SCD 1/03

[Guest guest]

Hi, Angie.

Frozen berries in a blender for a few seconds peels and removes most (not all!)

of the seeds. This works GREAT for strawberries. Then just throw them in a pan

with some water and cook on low heat. Use sieve if seeds appear.

In the blender, the bulk of the seeds end up in the bottom with the fruit on

top. This makes using a sieve even easier, at least for me.

Also, I still use our old bread maker a lot. Many have a jam setting, and I

throw frozen fruit in with a cinnamon and honey to taste and water (follow the

machine recipe recommendations for water to fruit ratio except omit the

pectin). This is great for days when it is too hot to cook or when stirring

fruit at the stove AND juggling kids is more than I can handle. :-) The bread

machine jam cycle is nice because I can make it in bulk and then can it for

later use.

I have a crock pot with a warm setting (cooks and then sets itself to warm) and

this is perfect for cooking fruit, as well. Otherwise, just add about 1 1/2

cups water to 1 cup fruit in a crockpot (2 cups fruit would need 3 cups water),

and then it _should_ not burn or dry up. Frozen fruit (wisk in blender first)

really works great in a crockpot, and this is another way to cook in bulk

without a lot of fuss. If you do not stir a whole lot during the cooking, then

the few remaining seeds settle on the bottom. I have found that if the fruit is

not frozen, then apples, apricots, peaches, nectarines work best in the

crockpot.

Hope this helps.

SCD 2 years

Mom to Dakota (8--NF, CDD, Seizures)

and (6--happy and healthy)