island cassie

Years ago we lived in Africa up on the high veld where the air was very dry, and the peaches, apricots and nectarines used to grow like weeds and you couldn't give the fruit away because everyone had them. So people used to spread them out to dry and the flavour was really concentrated. This was when people didn't always have electricity for freezers, and it was a common sight to see yards covered with corrugated iron sheets which were in turn covered with halved pitted fruit drying in the sun. If they had trees you could bet they would have strips of jerky (biltong) drying there - and we ate them all with never any ill effects!! Even now we eat from roadside vendors with impunity.

Sorry didn't mean to hijack this thread - got carried away.
Cassie