Rebecca wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have found a few baby recipes (my little one is 8 months old) using
> dried apricots.
>
> This is going to sound really daft, but do I need to rehydrate them
> first? I only ask as they seem really rubbery dried and even mashed, I
> can't see them being chewable with no teeth!

I would use the unsulfured apricots...the ones that look like really
flat apricot road-kill. I would pour boiling water over them and let
them soften. Leaving them overnight will really soften them. My little
guy got teeth early, and never had any trouble chewing up or choking on
anything, although we watched him like a hawk. He wanted something of
everything we ate (still does) and would bite off little bits of dried
apricot and eat them. The skin came out unchanged in the stool.
Every baby is different, and I would guess by eight months you'd have
had other fibrous things going in him. If not, don't start with this.
Kiddo was and is wild about blueberries, eating nearly pint in a
sitting, easy, and he's not yet two.
blacksalt