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Recipe

Fruit leather sheet

Fruit pulp dried slowly into a flexible edible or non-edible sheet. With pectin it turns glossy and firm; without, soft and supple.

Every A New Field recipe has been run in a domestic kitchen or community hall. Read the safety notes before you start and adapt for your venue.

What you’ll make

Red to amber depending on fruit. Glossy, flexible, slightly sticky.

Flexible slots (flex around your material)

  • Pectin pulp

    Pectin-rich peel or pulp500g fruit pulp

    Fruit peel and pulp rich in pectin. Gels with sugar and acid.

    Examples Apple, berry, quince, plum

    Note — Cook down first.

Fixed ingredients

  • Sugar · 100g
  • Lemon juice · 1 tbsp

Equipment

  • Saucepan
  • blender
  • baking paper
  • oven on lowest setting.

Refinements and variations

  • Layer two thin colours for a marbled sheet
  • Press dried herbs in before drying.

Source notes

Traditional fruit leather; scaled for non-edible craft uses.