How to Make Autumn Olive Fruit Leathers

To make Autumn Olive fruit leathers...

get your collecting basket,

strip ripe berries from their branches into your basket,

and harvest as many berries as your heart desires (after all you are doing landowners, farm owners, and the government a favor by preventing the spread of this invasive plant (I collected 15 cups worth).

Back home assemble your blender, food mill, and dehydrator.

Place berries in blender...

and blend.

Put blended berries through food mill to separate the seeds from the juice and pulp.

Ladle the juicy pulp onto the non-stick sheets of the dehydrator trays.

Dehydrate at 135 Degrees F for about 14 hours or until the leather is somewhat sticky and pliable. You should easily be able to peel it from the dehydrator sheet without it tearing (it needs to dry longer) or crumbling (it was left in for too long). 

Roll them up and store them in jars for up to a year. You can enjoy this tart tasting, sweet smelling, vibrant red fruit roll whenever you have guests or want to be brought back to the cool crisp days of Fall.