{"id":2672,"date":"2020-11-29T20:29:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T20:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2020-12-06T16:16:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T16:16:05","slug":"drying-oranges-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/?p=2672","title":{"rendered":"Drying Oranges for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Dried Oranges for Christmas.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">A few years ago I saw <strong>Lisa<\/strong> from the <strong>Farmhouse on Boone<\/strong> come across some dried oranges in one of her thrifting videos.     I loved the idea of decorating with dried fruit.   This year I decided to give it a shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">I don&#8217;t have a dehydrator so I decided to try to dry out orange slices on low heat in my oven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" src=\"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201128_092831-scaled-e1606674955140-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201128_092831-scaled-e1606674955140-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201128_092831-scaled-e1606674955140-1024x696.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201128_092831-scaled-e1606674955140-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201128_092831-scaled-e1606674955140-1536x1044.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201128_092831-scaled-e1606674955140.jpg 1958w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">First I sliced the oranges about a 1\/4 of inch thick.  Try to slice them as uniform as you can.  This will help with even uniform drying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">It took me  four hours in our electric oven at 175&#8242; to dry out my orange slices.  I flipped them each hour.  I would recommend 3.5 hours.  Mine do look a little over &#8220;dried&#8221;.  <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201129_120717-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201129_120717-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201129_120717-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201129_120717-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201129_120717-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201129_120717-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure 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A few years ago I saw Lisa from the Farmhouse on Boone come across some dried oranges in one of her thrifting videos. I loved the idea of decorating with dried fruit. This year I decided to give it a shot. I don&#8217;t have a dehydrator so I decided to try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2736,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions\/2736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happilyhomeschoolinginiowa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}