[pct-l] spagetti sauce

[JOHNNY J FARBER]

Speaking from experience you might want to give your spaggetti leather a whirl in the blender.  I found that mine stayed in hard little lumps no matter how long I soaked it.  This year I bought tomato powder from www.wildernessdining.com<http://www.wildernessdining.com/> and added spices--quick and very good texture.  Free

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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:52:56 -0700
From: Tortoise <Tortoise73 at charter.net<mailto:Tortoise73 at charter.net>>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Food on Trail, dehyd. spaghetti sauce
To: Laraine Downer <larainekate at yahoo.com<mailto:larainekate at yahoo.com>>
Cc: Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes <diane at santabarbarahikes.com<mailto:diane at santabarbarahikes.com>>,
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My approach to tomato sauces is this:

buy cans of tomato paste -- it is simply tomato puree or tomato sauce with 
a lot less water. dry this in your dehydrator. then crumble, put in a 
plastic bag and add spices.  Italian spices for spaghetti, chili powder for 
chili mac, etc.


Tortoise

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Laraine Downer wrote:
> Diane: I have a handout from Roy "TrailDad" Robinson and successfully
> dried some spaghetti sauce leather. Here's his instructions:
> 
> "Use a meatless sauce. Puree a quart of the sauce in a blender to remove
> lumps & pour prepared sauce onto a greased cookie sheet. Dry in oven at
> low temp (150 degrees) til it turns to leather. Cut it into serving size
> pieces (8 servings per quart works for me.) Return the pieces to the
> oven & dry them on the racks til they are rock-hard. Cool & wrap
> individually. Store in freezer."
> 
> My oven only goes as low at 170 degrees, I just chose sauce with no
> lumps & didn't bother with blender. Then I put finished, rock-hard
> pieces in a "seal-a-meal" bag & sealed them up. Seems to work fine
> (we'll see later when I pull them out on the trail).
> 
> Happy hiking LaDeDa/Laraine
>