Mom's Homemade Granola

Mix together: 
6 cups Old Fashioned Oats
½ cup Brown Sugar  (crumble it into the bowl)
¾ cup Wheat Germ
¼ cup Seeds (Sesame? Flax?)
½ cup Nuts (Peanuts? Cashews?)


Blend and warm together:
½ cup Canola Oil
⅜ cup Honey (Note: three EIGHTHS!)
1 TBSP Vanilla (Bourbon Vanilla Extract?)


• Preheat oven to 300° F

• Heat the oil & honey together with the vanilla: about a minute in the microwave. 

• Pour the liquid ingredients over the dry ingredients and mix them well. Pour the whole mixture into a baking pan. Whatever size fits, steel, glass, cast iron, whatever.

• Turn every 10 or 12 minutes.

• Bake until it’s golden brown and the house smells wonderful. Should be about an hour. 

Comment: doubling the honey makes a very sweet sticky mess. You can cut it into bars while it's cooling, but it's nearly impossible to get out of the pan! There has to be a better (and more intentional) way of making granola bars!

Hitachi Breadmaker White Bran Bread

Ingredients:

3½ cups bread flour
½ cup oat bran
1½ tsp dry yeast
1 TBSP gluten (“gluten flour”)
2 TBSP sugar
1½ TBSP butter or cooking oil
1½ TBSP dried milk powder
1 tsp salt
1⅛ cups lukewarm filtered water

Instructions:

• Measure the warm water and add yeast to it while you’re measuring out the other ingredients.
• Measure other ingredients. Load into bread machine.
• Yeast should be active by now. If not, give it 10 minutes or so.
• Add yeast / water to the machine.
• Press “GO”
• When it’s done, remove the bread, slice, maybe add butter, and enjoy.

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