Dehydrated spinach and swiss chard

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   I thought this was a very interesting idea, especially since both spinach and swiss chard are relatively easy to grow in pots.

There are recipes for the "Spinach Flour" at this URL, and also quite a few more survival tips:  http://www.justpeace.org/nuggets17.htm

DEHYDRATING SPINACH PLUS SOME RECIPES

From Bernadette at CatholiCity year 2000: Today I decided it was time to start drying the spinach. We have been having fresh spinach and spinach salads everyday for about 3 weeks. The results are as follows: 

I picked enough spinach to heap onto the dryer trays (I have five very large trays) and started my spinach to dry at about 10 AM. Right now it is 6:24 PM and I have processed it all and have gotten 12 ounces of my spinach flour. 

When you dehydrate the spinach you start with your fresh spinach leaves. Wash them and destem. 

Place the spinach leaves on your dehydrator trays and dry until crisp and brittle. At this point, since we have electricity, I use a food processor and process into flour (a blender works too). If you don't have a food processor, use a ziploc bag, insert the dried spinach, take out the air, zip and use a rolling pin to make into a powder. Takes a little longer this way, but it does work. Your dried spinach may have little flecks of dried spinach in it and this is fine. It does not all have to be a fine grind like flour. 

I then pour the spinach flour into a jar and screw on the lid tightly. I use old pasta jars (any jar with a screw on lid will work fine). I place the jars on a shelf in the dark basement where it is cool all year long. These jars last a very long time. My test was I put items in these jars in 1982 and checked and used them this year.

DEHYDRATING SWISS CHARD

Try dehydrating swiss chard for adding to chicken soup in the winter. I wash the whole leaves and take the stems out then lay the leaves on the tray. The stems can be chopped and dried also. Then crumble the dry leaves into the jars. A lot sure fits into a jar! 

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	I thought this was a very interesting idea, especially since both spinach and swiss chard are relatively easy to grow in pots. There are recipes for the "Spinach Flour" at this URL, and also quite a few more survival tips: http://www.justpeace.org/nuggets17.htm DEHYDRATING SPINACH PLUS SOME RECIPES From Bernadette at CatholiCity year 2000: Today I decided it was time to start drying the spinach. We have been having fresh spinach and spinach salads everyday for about 3 weeks. The results are as follows: I picked enough spinach to heap onto the dryer trays (I have five very large trays) and started my spinach to dry at about 10 AM. Right now it is 6:24 PM and I have processed it all and have gotten 12 ounces of my spinach flour. When you dehydrate the spinach you start with your fresh spinach leaves. Wash them and destem. Place the spinach leaves on your dehydrator trays and dry until crisp and brittle. At this point, since we have electricity, I use a food processor and process into flour (a blender works too). If you don't have a food processor, use a ziploc bag, insert the dried spinach, take out the air, zip and use a rolling pin to make into a powder. Takes a little longer this way, but it does work. Your dried spinach may have little flecks of dried spinach in it and this is fine. It does not all have to be a fine grind like flour. I then pour the spinach flour into a jar and screw on the lid tightly. I use old pasta jars (any jar with a screw on lid will work fine). I place the jars on a shelf in the dark basement where it is cool all year long. These jars last a very long time. My test was I put items in these jars in 1982 and checked and used them this year. DEHYDRATING SWISS CHARD Try dehydrating swiss chard for adding to chicken soup in the winter. I wash the whole leaves and take the stems out then lay the leaves on the tray. The stems can be chopped and dried also. Then crumble the dry leaves into the jars. A lot sure fits into a jar! http://www.justpeace.org/nuggets17.htm