Freeze Dried Strawberries

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Freeze Dried Strawberries

Post by John G » Thu Jun 30, 2016 10:48 am

Does anyone know where I can pick up some freeze dried strawberries in HRM?
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Re: Freeze Dried Strawberries

Post by LiverDance » Thu Jun 30, 2016 11:14 am

John G wrote:Does anyone know where I can pick up some freeze dried strawberries in HRM?
Costco - sorry thought you meant frozen. Bulk barn may have some http://www.bulkbarn.ca/en/Products/All/ ... rries-1737" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Freeze Dried Strawberries

Post by John G » Thu Jun 30, 2016 2:56 pm

Thanks LD. I ended up finding freeze dried ones at Organic Planet on Quinpool Rd. I wanted some with no sugar or sulphites for a short mead.
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Re: Freeze Dried Strawberries

Post by MitchK » Thu Jun 30, 2016 3:15 pm

Is there a reason to use freeze dried over just plain frozen?
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Re: Freeze Dried Strawberries

Post by John G » Thu Jun 30, 2016 10:20 pm

MitchK wrote:Is there a reason to use freeze dried over just plain frozen?
Easier to pulverize and possibly extract more strawberry flavour? Not sure. I'll probably try both at some point if I like the recipe, although freeze dried is super convenient now that I know where to get them. I'm following the strawberry peppercorn short mead recipe from speed brewing just out of curiosity.

The strawberries came in a ziplok bag, so I just opened the bag and pushed all the air out, then zipped it and used a rolling pin to turn the strawberries to powder in about 20 seconds. They smelled fantastic.
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