my experiment with extra fruit

So after a Bountiful Baskets haul I had a metric ton of fruit quickly going bad, because of a household wise illness we couldn't consume it. So someone had suggested fruit leather and how living in Vegas was the perfect forum for it, just leave it outside all day in the sun in your closed grill and Viola! yumminess.. So I gave it a try.

I peeled and cut up about a dozen peaches, a dozen plums, and threw in about two handfulls of green grapes to add sweetness without adding sugar. Threw it in a large stock pot with 1 cup of water and cooked it all for about 15 minutes. Then I let it cool, threw it all in the blender, blended till smooth. Then poured it into a walled cookie sheet covered in plastic wrap and put it outside in the weber. Thats when things started to go wrong...

12 hours later I go to test it, mush, not leather at all. So I leave it out there for over night and another whole sunny 108 degree day... ... ... I test it, still mushy!!!!!!! really? Its got to be the 30% humidity we've been having. So I bring it indoors and put it in the oven at 170 degrees, this was the lowest my oven would go. Left it in there for 12 more house FINALLY! it looks and feels like leather!!!! geebus! That took FOR EVER.

But the question is... how did it come out?!?!? fantastic! I gave some to Violet to try, she keeps asking for more, between her and my husband half the cookie sheet is gone already its only been done for 40 minutes! I'd say it was a success and now I have some other way to use up my produce without letting it go bad! or giving it away.. YAY!!!