Another Load Out of the Freeze Dryer

In the photos, you really can’t see the shapes but they are so cute. There are stars, hearts, owls, fish, shells and one more thing I can’t remember.

I was asking Vince about the texture and how I would describe it.

Me: Vince, how would you describe the texture of these?
Vince: Most people wouldn’t eat something like that.
Me: They’re bad?
Vince: No . . there just isn’t much to compare it to.

The best I can come up with is something between a malted milk ball and cotton candy. Of course, it doesn’t taste like a malted milk ball .. just kind that airy texture.

There are 23 half pint jars and 3 gift type bags. The bags, I sealed with a heat strip, which tears away to open and then there’s a zipper bag to re-seal it.

Here’s what I ended up with:

• 8 jars of strawberry milk. It’s the Promised Land strawberry milk which I love!
• 8 jars of chocolate milk. I mixed chocolate syrup in milk to make these.
• 4 strawberry yogurt drops made from homemade yogurt.
• 3 eggnog.

Of course, we both liked the eggnog best but by the time I got to the eggnog, I knew I had enough to fill the freeze dryer. I’ll start freezing more of those tomorrow but tomorrow, I have to get dog food in the freeze dryer and that will probably take til Wednesday night or Thursday morning, depending on what time of day I get it going.

Hopefully by then I’ll have enough frozen eggnog to fill the freeze dryer but I do still have two trays of frozen corn in the home freezer so if I only get 2 trays worth of eggnog bites done, I can fill the remaining two trays with corn. I don’t ever want to run a half full load.