For the Hull of it (what to do with strawberry hulls)
As a part of the Can Jam, I got to thinking about how many hundreds of pounds of strawberry hulls that hit composters and trash bins across the world this month (ok a little melodramatic but it`s Sunday and I reserve the right to be a drama Queen on Sundays if I so choose).
I also really love the idea of nose-to-tail eating as applied to vegetables and fruit. Thinking of eating a strawberry `nose-to-tail`just makes me giggle a small bit.
Our hulls have a bit of berry attached. They were roughly pulled from the berry as the fruit was hand crushed at the same time to be added into jam. The hulls, with berry bits were later squeezed of their final juices and a plan was hatched. There had to be something that could be done with all of those hulls.
An entire jar of dehydrated strawberry hulls. They will keep indefinately (a year or two but will disappear well before then).
We theorized that dehydrated hulls could make a natural tea (or iced tea) and can be combined with other dried projects (such as our lemon slices).
The results are awesome and totally exciting. A small dab of honey, 1 dehydrated lemon slice and a small spoon of hulls made this strawberry iced tea delightful.
Comments
That sounds awesome and totally exciting.
That’s just beautiful, in my opinion! Love it.
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Hey!
GREAT idea!
(now I know you can actually DO that…)
Thanks.
M.L.
Yum. I’m going to try that! Thanks!
Smacking my forehead! When I think of all the hulls I composted in the last month. This is a great idea. I’ll do it next year, for sure.
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Quick question. Are the leaves attached? Or are you using the whitish hull of the berry only?
Hi Brady,
We use everything – I often slice the tops and even get a bit of red. If not, I roughly pinch them off – pieces of the berry will indeed leave flavor (just like when you add slices of shole cucumbers or lemons in water to flavor it).
Let us know how it goes. We like to mix it with dehydrated lemon for tea.
Of course you can add other flavors as you wish as well. 
j