Dried Peel

Occasionally you’ll run across recipes that call for Dried Orange Peel, or similar.

Powdered cappuccino mix is a good example.

Here’s how you make dried lemon peel

Skin the lemon, and place the clean, rinsed peel in a plastic container, without a lid:

Pop the container, still without a lid, into the freezer compartment of your refrigerator.

The freezer will sublimate the water from the peel, leaving you with dried peel, or very nearly.

It’s a relatively fast way to remove water from any sort of vegetable flesh.

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