15 + 3 points
Energy Bar For The Hungry by Burn Unit
June 1st, 2006 8:24 AM
Ingredients for a single bar
1/4c soy nuts
sprinkle of iodized salt (optional)
1 whole apple, including core, peels and seeds (remove stem)
2T brown rice syrup
Method
Pulverize the dry ingredients together. Pulverize the apple and brown rice syrup. This can be done with a powerful blender, a food processor, or probably ideally, a mortar and pestle. You would definitely need a mortar and pestle to really break down the apple seeds. Mix together the wet and dry mixes until you have an even consistency. Place a piece of wax paper on a pan or cookie sheet. Spread the bar mix fairly thinly into a generally oval shape. Dry for a while. Your choice: place the pan in a very low temperature oven (150 or less) or put the pan in the hot sun for a couple hours. When it has achieved a little more cohesion (I'm guessing an hour in the oven at most), fold the sides of the oval and form it up into a bar. Turn it over to expose the bottom surface to the air. Dry longer (probably at least 10 hours in the sun, meaning you might need to bring it indoors overnight) until it's at the consistency you like--I think I'd like mine softer like a chewy granola bar. If you have access to a food dehydrator, that changes everything. You could put the spread into the dehydrator racks and then you'd have to do some dehydrator research.
Apples are awesome and good for your brain; the hungry will need their brains whole and well-defended in order to overcome the trials of being held down by a culture of greed and conspicuous consumption. Soynuts are really full of protein and relatively cheap--much cheaper than actual nuts; the malnourished will need protein to build muscle mass for the hard work of tearing down the criminal conspiracies of agribusiness and wealth that keep them hungry. Brown rice syrup will help as a binder and provide a nice sweetening. It's also got very good types of carbohydrates that stretch out its effects over time; energy and a little sweetness from carbs will briefly lift spirits, but also the longer term output will help sustain the focus and drive necessary to join us and confront the crisis. Also the sources of all these foods are going to be more friendly to the environment, generally speaking. I wanted to make this with manual tools and using solar power so the manufacturing process would be more sustainable. I also plan to try it using my vitamix blender and a proper dehydrator to see what a "luxe version" would be like.
soynuts: http://www.askdrsears.com/html/4/T043600.asp
brown rice syrup: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_rice_syrup
apples, briefly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple#Health_benefits
Plans for building a solar dehydrator:
http://www.thefarm.org/charities/i4at/surv/soldehyd.htm
http://www.littlecolorado.org/solar.htm
1/4c soy nuts
sprinkle of iodized salt (optional)
1 whole apple, including core, peels and seeds (remove stem)
2T brown rice syrup
Method
Pulverize the dry ingredients together. Pulverize the apple and brown rice syrup. This can be done with a powerful blender, a food processor, or probably ideally, a mortar and pestle. You would definitely need a mortar and pestle to really break down the apple seeds. Mix together the wet and dry mixes until you have an even consistency. Place a piece of wax paper on a pan or cookie sheet. Spread the bar mix fairly thinly into a generally oval shape. Dry for a while. Your choice: place the pan in a very low temperature oven (150 or less) or put the pan in the hot sun for a couple hours. When it has achieved a little more cohesion (I'm guessing an hour in the oven at most), fold the sides of the oval and form it up into a bar. Turn it over to expose the bottom surface to the air. Dry longer (probably at least 10 hours in the sun, meaning you might need to bring it indoors overnight) until it's at the consistency you like--I think I'd like mine softer like a chewy granola bar. If you have access to a food dehydrator, that changes everything. You could put the spread into the dehydrator racks and then you'd have to do some dehydrator research.
Apples are awesome and good for your brain; the hungry will need their brains whole and well-defended in order to overcome the trials of being held down by a culture of greed and conspicuous consumption. Soynuts are really full of protein and relatively cheap--much cheaper than actual nuts; the malnourished will need protein to build muscle mass for the hard work of tearing down the criminal conspiracies of agribusiness and wealth that keep them hungry. Brown rice syrup will help as a binder and provide a nice sweetening. It's also got very good types of carbohydrates that stretch out its effects over time; energy and a little sweetness from carbs will briefly lift spirits, but also the longer term output will help sustain the focus and drive necessary to join us and confront the crisis. Also the sources of all these foods are going to be more friendly to the environment, generally speaking. I wanted to make this with manual tools and using solar power so the manufacturing process would be more sustainable. I also plan to try it using my vitamix blender and a proper dehydrator to see what a "luxe version" would be like.
soynuts: http://www.askdrsears.com/html/4/T043600.asp
brown rice syrup: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_rice_syrup
apples, briefly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple#Health_benefits
Plans for building a solar dehydrator:
http://www.thefarm.org/charities/i4at/surv/soldehyd.htm
http://www.littlecolorado.org/solar.htm
