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| Healthy 7 Grain soaked and dried Cereal |
You can use any flour. Since I've been grinding grains into flour for over 30 years, whenever I can get more grain varieties into our diet beyond basic wheat I go for it. So I make this cereal with a 7 or 9 grain mix I get in 50# bags.
When I had a lot of excess raw dairy milk by-products: whether plain soured milk, yogurt, or dairy kefir, that's what I made this with. Now that I've narrowed our raw milk usage down to what we really like and worth the extra cost and benefits of the raw dairy (I'll do a post about this). If I don't have enough dairy kefir, I buy a cultured buttermilk for making this cereal.
HEALTHY COLD CEREAL
1 quart cultured dairy (kefir, buttermilk, yogurt, or soured milk)2 pounds flour
I weigh the flour now (for lots of things, especially sourdough) since amounts by cup vary depending on whether fresh ground or compacted over time. So cup-wise? Maybe around 8 cups.
Mix this together in a bowl to sit and soak for 24 hours.
The next day, after the 24 hour soak, mix in -1 C coconut oil (unrefined- organic virgin best)
1 C maple syrup (grade B is best)
1 1/2 tsp sea salt
3 tsps baking soda
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 Tb cinnamon
After mixing all together well spread in 2 baking pans. 9x13 would probably work; my 2 pans are 11x17. Bake at 350F for about 30 minutes, till a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. You don't want to over bake.
Let these "coffee cakes" cool before crumbling into small pieces. You could dry this in a low temp oven at 200F, but you'll need lots of baking sheets to effectively dry. I dry mine in my dehydrator for about 12 hours.
I have ours in a glass canister for easy access and beauty! Try it, you'll like it!
8 comments:
So, I'm confused.:)
Do I dehydrate this cereal after I bake it? Or is it just baked? Thanks!
Yes, I mentioned crumbling the baked "coffee cake" and then either drying in the oven or a dehydrator. Because of wanting the crumbles to dry crisp, if you do it in your oven, you'll need more cookie sheets and dry it at a low temp. As I said, I dehydrate, and this recipe fills all my 9 trays!
I'll be doing another post on this cereal with more pics. I've mentioned in another post that I'm still trying to tweak a chocolate version of this. I do this recipe and make one of the baking trays the chocolate version. So far I've done coco powder which worked fine, but Monte wanted it more chocolaty. Another try was with a 4oz bar of unsweetened chocolate, and he likes that, tho feeling it should be a bit more sweeter. So next time, I'll add more maple syrup.
I made this a few days ago, & it's almost gone. My hubby likes it, and as you said it makes a great munchie snack. It was kind of hard to mix, though. I might try to use my bread dough bucket next time. Thanks for the recipe, it may make good Christmas gifts in a jar:)
Yep, it is a stiff dough, and you want the soda to mix in well. I have a Bosch Universal mixer and I DO mix the final dough with the bread kneader arm.
This is very interesting! I will have to try it. It would be so nice to have "cold cereal" once in a while!
I just finished making this cereal, and ate a small amount with milk and I love it! Thank you SO much!!! I hope you don't mind, I am sharing on my blog with your link, here:
http://simplyhomemaking60.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-healthy-dry-cereal.html
Glad you like the cereal. I'm seriously considering making a bunch for putting in decorated jars for gifting this Christmas season - a GREAT Idea! Thanks anonymous!
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