How to Dry Cranberries Using the Oven Method is a recipe.

You can make dried and sweetened cranberries in your kitchen.

The cranberry fields in Wisconsin are flooded in the fall.It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience to walk among thousands of floating cranberries.Wisconsin produces more than 60 percent of the nation's cranberry crop.

If you want to use these berries in your kitchen, you should prepare and preserve them from their fresh state.It's a great way to preserve cranberries for up to eight months.

I tried this recently.The fresh fruit is not currently available in our local grocery stores.I prepared my oven and borrowed a small dehydrator to make four different batches.You can learn how to dry cranberries step-by-step with either an oven or a dehydrator.

When using the dehydrator, I spread cranberries across two of the racks and heated them at 115 degrees F for 15 hours, before turning off the machine and leaving the berries inside.

Some of them were slightly soft, but others were somewhat hard.Add time as needed to achieve your desired texture and check the suggested temperature for drying fruit with your dehydrator.

You can dehydrate cranberries in the oven by turning it on for 10 minutes at 350 degrees F.

If you want to leave the cranberries inside, put them on a cookie sheet and turn off the oven.Leave them in the oven for more time if necessary.The ultimate goal is for dried cranberries to have a texture similar to raisins.