How did you manage to do that? What did you do? Did you use a dehydrator or your oven? I can't imagine my dehydrator burning anything. You must be really talented!
Have you considered freezing the strawberries whole? They need no other preservation when whole.squash and strawberries from the freezer.
some years ago i smashed a bunch of later season strawberries that were starting to ferment and put those in the freezer thinking that the freezer would stop them from fermenting any more. that turned out to be a wrong assumption and when i started trying to use them the next winter they were not good. they were all glopped together and it was like trying to eat a strawberry wine flavored sponge. to say the least those strawberries ended up being worm food.
lat year i tried various amounts of sugar to see if there was some lower limit where they would still be preserved vs. those that cold fermented. normally for making strawberry freezer jam the recipe calls for quite a bit of sugar and then there is some added lemon juice which i like a lot so i usually add extra and pectin. per batch the recipe is four cups of sugar to two cups of mashed strawberries - that's a lot of sugar! i'm trying to cut down on how much of that i'm eating. i do not add any pectin. this is just a way to freeze the strawberries so that the flavor comes out close enough to freezer jam without having to spend a lot of money on pectin.
so far all of the variations that have included some sugar have come out of the freezer ok while a few of the jars with no added sugar did ferment. in my notes and on the lid of the jars i wrote down some batch numbers so i can tell which had how much sugar. the experiment will continue this coming strawberry season if we get enough to put up as i will keep trying to see how low it will still work and prevent the cold ferment. my notes have to be improved so we'll keep on learning.
the other thing we're eating from the garden are bread and butter pickles. Mom only uses these for a certain recipe so i put up a case of pints for her to use. we opened a jar the other day for her to use and they're still good, but very sweet. someone gave us a jar a few years ago of these kind of pickles and they actually put a piece of bread on top of the pickles in the jar - neither of us could bring ourselves to eat them. it just didn't seem like a great idea...
the last jar i had was pretty good.
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