"JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote in
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> "James Silverton" > wrote in message
> newsjaBk.578$8v5.471@trnddc01...
>> JoeSpareBedroom wrote on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:45:52 -0400:
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>>> I'm the happy recipient of about 3 dozen limes from a friend
>>> who just returned from New Orleans. She suggested using my
>>> dehydrator to dry some (actually most) of them so we can use
>>> them in Middle Eastern recipes. The dehydrator manual mentions
>>> nothing about drying citrus fruit. Anyone have any tips?
>>
>> I can see wanting to preserve a surplus of limes but, if you like
>> them in cooking, you can buy dried limes at Middle Eastern grocery
>> stores and they are not expensive.
>
> True, but I'm concerned that I have no way to use most of the limes I
> have on hand, so preserving at least some of them would be good. I
> could go nuts with 4 bottles of Tanqueray, but then I'll have other
> issues to contend with. :-)
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I'd zest the limes and dry the zest. Juice the limes and freeze the juice.
Plenty of uses for lime zest.

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The beet goes on -Alan