Wild Edible Plant - Making Autumn Olive Fruit Leather

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hey snitching and survival today we're gonna try to make some autumn olive fruit leather stay tuned alright so I could use my wooden bowl for this but actually had some plans for that but something else so I'm going to use a metal build camp only takes a minute to gather a bunch I think this is gonna come in handy I'm gonna just lightly crush them up hey break it up nicely these are all broken up add some more just about finished okay so this is what I'm going to dry my fruit leather on just a big piece of birch bark now to prep it I'm gonna just scrape it so I can clean it a little bit alright so there we go nice and clean ready for the autumn olive so I'm just working on taking out some of that moisture from here because I have to dehydrate this so now that that moisture is mostly gone it's already forming a patty so I'm gonna take this just for now just put it on my birch bark I'm gonna get going on making some more it's real simple just squeezing the juice out

so it's less liquid to dehydrate out of my autumn olive pulp so it should turn into fruit a lot of faster

the idea here is just to make thin patties and lay it out to dry in the Sun you can see it's a nice fruit patty that I have you can drive this even over a fire - I'd rather just do it the Sun so I don't want any smoke flavor getting into this stuff you know so I'm just making it nice and thin especially gonna break it in half so I can make it thinner have a still fit on my hand alright thanks Finn fruit patty I'm gonna take that I'm gonna lay it on my birch bark press it out try to get a nice uniform thickness because it will dry the same speed okay now the second piece you know knowing skills like this practicing them perfecting them mastering them is absolutely critical if we want to know how to live on this planet of ours you know this stuff was total child's play this stuff is just what everyone knew when everyone looked in the woods you know what I mean it's nothing special it's like way of course you're gonna make fruit patties you know we call fruit leather you know okay yeah no kidding no big deal yeah just another way of caserta preserving the food for the winter and it's perfect timing because it's October right now and it's gonna be winter soon so families would be doing this and basically making fruit jerky drying it out in the Sun dehydrating it so that way it stores so doesn't go moldy or anything like that and they would have a whole bunch of these in park park containers to keep the insects and stuff off of them you know real simple or wrapped up in buckskin what you know whatever you want to do and that way you have some food that will last when all this stuff is gone and you saw how many berries the autumn olive tree produced you can make an absolute ton of this stuff alright so here it is see my birch bark so now all I would do is just lay this out on the Sun let it dehydrate bring it in at night and keep putting it in the Sun every day until it's dry you know depending on the cloud cover depending on the strength of Sun you know depending on if it's overcast things like that it might dry out in a day might dry out two three days I'm not sure like I said it's the first time I've ever made this so I really don't know if this is like a four day project or this can be like a one or two day project but we will soon find out as if on cue the clouds move and the Sun cranks up

okay so I made this knot yesterday about the day before so this is the second day for second full day it's having drying I have it laid out for when the Sun comes out it will hit it but it's been raining for two days so we don't really have any Sun at all but I thought he start to dry pretty good and I just flipped it over so I could drive you on the side both of them they're both solid so if we get some Sun they should be done today if not then they should be done tomorrow well we have gotten a few strong patch as a Sun like right now it's very yeah it's very sunny right now so I think the fruit leather is pretty close to being done yeah you ready to try some all right so break a piece off like this piece right here you want this piece mmm

it's like carrots that lemonade flavor forward

in the seats when they break up my minds me of like tell it's like a salt form of food doesn't just solve it the liquid kind of mines you like beef jerky actually that's all food that's really good yep meaning the seeds by themselves sure so the seeds add substance they add a good strong solid food salty matter to it and flavor the flavor is very kind of lemony so I'll give you guys a close-up and what this looks like so if he's chomping away so it's got my brush back here and which on so get these patties

to

ready to store it wrap them up in some cloth or some birch bark or a little box or something like that throw it on the rucksack this is definitely something that will that will last on the trail the last in your rucksack and it will also last through the winter so it will help you they'll help you have food later on you know you have a whole bunch of these to make stats of them and when food is scarce later on you got these I'll preserve ready to go it's like beef jerky but for fruit that's a mission is a vow true Lada was their success pre-shave use coffee sport let's see the next one take care