Mushrooms cut up and ready to go into the dehydrator. Dehydrated mushrooms can be re-hydrated in water or just pop them into soup, dressing, stew, sauce, or casserole and let them cook with the rest of the ingredients. Dehydrated oranges make a great snack. They also can be cut up and put into a marmalade. Or use them in a marinade for meat. Put them in a stew, or toss one into your iced tea glass or hot tea glass.
Cook them in with some sweet potatoes or fish, or in your homemade bread, or even in a salad. Okay, I'm making myself hungry! The bananas all cut up and put into the dehydrator. Banana chips make such a great snack. The lemons and limes can be tossed into a glass of water or tea for flavoring.
You can also add them to a soup for some extra flavoring. Just be sure to remove it before you eat the soup because of the peel. You can grind up the lemons for lemon powder or to make lemon pepper seasoning or use the powder in jams. Or you can throw some into the crock-pot with your chicken for some extra "oomph". How do you like to eat/use your dehydrated food, To see a list of all the foods I have dehydrated, click here.
Most flavours can catch carp very effectively even if only for limited periods when used directly as a neat soak. Although the very much less water soluble propylene glycol flavours have been very much used in the UK, being a cheaper alternative, their use is now far less prevalent. In the States and many parts of the world, propylene flavours and those supermarket cooking flavours based on acetic acid are used by the majority of anglers to good effect still.
However, the fully water soluble alcohol and glycerol flavour, for example are much more popular in the UK for pressured carp water fishing. Many Americans will mention the still popular ‘supermarket flavours as part of their homemade bait recipes. This goes for even those fishing competitively in pay lake tournaments; although many are learning there are much superior options available.
Almost invariably the 2 most commonly used cheap supermarket flavours seem to be Strawberry and vanilla, but chocolate and coffee are also popular along with other fruity ones. It might be a surprise that many Americans use ‘Cola or ‘Red Bull or ‘Cream Soda, or ‘Cool Aid to flavour carp baits in dough or boilie baits. Flavours are most often complex combinations of quite volatile ingredients. Anglers have been able to achieve good results on many such alternatives from ‘Slush Puppy flavour, milk shakes, ice cream flavours and melted ice cream.
I think at the last count the ‘MacDonalds strawberry flavour formula had approaching 30 different components. Everyday drinks make ideal flavours for many wide and deeply scientific reasons. From ‘vodka, ‘Tia Maria, whiskey, brand, liquors, condensed milk, coconut milk, in fact many nut and seed milks, like sesame seed ‘Tahini. Yeast extract and peanut butter blend with other ingredients and make great flavours; these 2 examples will enhance your baits taste and ‘palatability effects too.
In solution, kelp and seaweeds powders for example, add taste enhancing factors and very carp attractive minerals and certain important vitamins. There are many sugary concentrates that carp love and sugar extracts from various industrial processes and bye-products. Adding these gives a very attractive ‘difference to using simply straight liquid flavours. For example, malt extract maltose, lactose, and fructose.
Liquorice extract is another very sweet alternative if you are trying to avoid the usual use of the more commonly used sweeteners from fishing bait suppliers and supermarket ones like sodium saccharin, ‘Splenda and the like. You can make up your own sweeteners and flavours etc by all kinds of means starting from simply mixing 2 substances together.
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