How To Make Apple Flat Cake

Let us now learn how to make an apple flat cake. We are going to make 12 serving.  To do this we need the following ingredients:-

• 2 cups old fashioned rolled oats
• 2 tablespoons oil
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1½ cups apple juice
• 1½ teaspoons vanilla
• 3 cups shredded apples, packed
• ½ cup raw sunflower seeds

How to Make the Apple Flat Cake

• Mix well oats, oil, and salt; stir in apple juice and vanilla (let stand while shredding apples); stir in shredded apples.
• Pour into 10 x 15-inch baking pan
• Sprinkle the sunflower seeds over the top; press down lightly.
• Bake at 350° F about 45 minutes.
• Cut in squares and serve hot with a dollop of yogurt or whipped topping.

Note: For a crisper cake, leave in oven a few minutes after heat is turned off.

Variations:

1. In place of sunflower seeds used chopped cashews, almonds, or other raw nuts, sesame seeds, or pumpkin seeds.
2. Add 1 teaspoon grated orange or lemon rind.

How to Make No knead rolls

It is now time to learn how to make no knead rolls.

To make 2 dozen no knead rolls you will need the following ingredients : -

• 1½ cups of warm water (110 - 115° F 
• ¼ cup sugar or light molasses
• 2 pkgs. active dry yeast (2 tablespoonss)
• 1½ cups sifted enriched all- purpose flour
• ½ cup soy  flour
• 2 cups stirred whole wheat fllour
• 1½ teaspoons salt
• 3 tablespoons oil
• egg

How To Make No Knead Rolls.

Add sugar and yeast to warm water in a large mixing bowl; let stand 10 minutes.

Add half of the flour and all the other ingredients.

Start mixer on medium speed (or beat by hand) and beat until smooth ( 1½ to 2 minutes); stir in the rest of the flour by hand.

Scrape batter down from sides of the bowl

Cover bowl and let rise in warm place until doubled (about 30 minutes)

Stir batter 20 to 25 strokes.

Coat 2 dozen muffin cups (or 2 29-oz. tin cans) with vegetable shortening or a vegetable release coating.

Fill muffin cups ½  full ( or cans 1/3 to ½ full).

Let rise in warm place until batter reaches tops of muffin cups (20 to 30 minutes).

Bake at 425° F. 10 to 15 minutes or until well browned

VARIATION  

For raisin rolls, add ½ cup raisin and 1 teaspoon grated orange rind to batter; use light molasses in place of sugar.

Arabic Bread (Pita)

Below is a recipe for making 12 loaves of Arabic bread (pita). To make the loaves you need the following ingredients: -

1 teaspoon sugar

2 cups lukewarm water

1 pkg. active dry yeast (1 tablespoon)

2 teaspoons salt

3 cups stirred whole-wheat flour

3 cups enriched all-purpose flour

How to Make the Arabic Bread or Pita.

Dissolve sugar in water in bowl; sprinkle yeast over; let stand 10 minutes.

Combine all ingredients; work into a medium-stiff ball.

Knead until smooth and elastic (about 8 minutes).

Cover; let rise in warm place until doubled.

Form dough into a long roll; cut in 12 equal pieces. Form each into a ball.

Cover and let rise 30 minutes.

Roll each ball into one quarter  inch thick circle.

Cover; let rise again 30 minutes.

Heat oven to 475 degrees Fahrenheit; place circles of dough directly on racks. As soon as dough puffs up (2 to 5 minutes), place under broiler for a few seconds until lightly browned.

Cool and store or freeze.

Note: These small round loaves are hollow  in the center.

Variations: 

1. The hollow loaves may be cut in half and stuffed with filling such as chopped tomatoes, lettuce, tahini (sesame seed butter). Falafels (p.76), and a garnish of parsley, or with chopped tomatoes, Yogurt Creme "Cheese" (p.99), a little olive oil, and oregano.  
2. Pita may be made from frozen bread. Thaw, cut dough for 1 loaf into 3 or 4 balls; spread each 1/4 inch thixk, tortilla- like; continue recipe as above.

Beverages

Pure, naturally soft water (not softened water, which is high in sodium) is nature's choice beverage. Water is indispensable to the body and, next to air, is the most important factor for our very survival. Start the day with two or three cups of warm water taken about half an hour before breakfast to wake up the digestive system. Before the day is over drink 3 or 4 more glasses. But not at mealtime! Iced water (or any iced beverage) slows digestive fluids, so it is better to quench your thirst between meals rather than at mealtime. Remember that concentrated protein foods and salty foods increase the body's need for water. Drinking at least six glasses of water a day besides other fluids is a beneficial health practice.

Hot cereal beverage, made of roasted grains, provide the relaxing, soothing effect of a hot beverage without drug effects.

Certain herb teas, such as alfalfa, clover blossom, and mint, are not known to be harmful; hop and catnip teas have sedative effects and may be undesirable if used too freely.

Carob powder is made from the pods of the carob tree. The flavor of the carob powder is often compared to that of chocolate, but it is more subtle and delicate. Free of stimulating drugs such as caffeine, it is a good alternative for people who are allergic to chocolate. On a weight basis, it is lower in calories, protein, and fat than is cocoa. Since carob contains natural sugars, you may reduce the sweetening when replacing cocoa in beverages and desserts.

Alcoholic beverages cause intoxication, loss of judgment and self-control, and damage to the liver and the brain.

Carbonated beverages and imitation fruit juices contribute little more than sugar to the diet and, when used frequently, join candy and other sweets to increase the risk of dental caries and obesity.

Coffee and cola drinks contain caffeine, a drug that strongly stimulates the central nervous system; the effect is followed by depression. Habitual use of caffeine-containing beverages contributes to fatigue, an unbalanced nervous system, and loss of self control. When habitual use is discontinued, drug withdrawal symptoms, such as headaches, usually occur, but typically theses disappear after a few days of abstinence.

Decaffeinated coffee does not produce significant caffeine effects. It has all the other ingredients of coffee, one of which is caffeol, which gives the characteristic aroma and flavor of coffee. Caffeol is an irritant to the stomach and digestive tract.

Tea (green or black) and iced tea contain caffeine as well as tannic acid, which slows digestion.

Caffeine Content of Approximately 6 oz of Selected Beverages.

Brewed Coffee                                 100-150 mg. caffeine

Instant Coffee                                  30-75 mg. caffeine

Decaffeinated Coffee                        2-6 mg. caffeine

Tea                                                    70-90 mg. caffeine

Cola-type beverages                          26-30 mg. caffeine

Chocolate and Cocoa contain a questionable amount of caffeine, but a larger amount of theobromine, a substance related to caffeine, but virtually inactive as a central nervous system stimulant. It is a weak diuretic. Chocolate contains a hard saturated fat believed to aggravate acne in some people. Cocoa is chocolate made into powder after most of the cocoa butter (hard fat) has been removed. However, the amount of sugar used to make it palatable may be more harmful than the chocolate itself.

Simple Raw Food Recipes

There are huge benefits for eating simple raw foods, particularly fruits and vegetables. With simple raw food recipes in vogue nowadays, restaurants have opened up serving only raw foods. One of these restaurants is known as Cafe Gratitude located in California. The cafe has published a cookbook titled, I Am Grateful: Recipes and Lifestyle of Cafe Gratitude. All the recipes in this book are from raw ingredients.                                                                             

While most people will find it extreme to go totally raw, there are huge benefits in including more raw foods in our diet. Raw foods are particularly helpful in providing the body with lots of vitamins, minerals and fiber which may be lost during the cooking process. 

One way you can include raw food in your diet is by trying to eat a piece of fruit with your breakfast and another midway through the morning as a snack. You can also add lots of fresh chopped vegetables to your sandwich at lunch and some Greek yoghurt or salsa. In fact all fruits and most vegetables can be eaten raw.

Below is a video offering some simple raw food recipes, in particular healthy raw desserts..

Savory Pizza Filling

For pizza lovers below is a recipe called Savory Pizza Filling to make your day

SAVORY PIZZA FILLING

1 large onion, chopped

1 clove garlic, chopped

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

Vi cup tomato puree

1 (2-oz.) can chopped mushrooms, including juice

1 small bay leaf, crushed

1/2  teaspoon MSG (optional)

1/2  teaspoon Italian herbs

1 teaspoon brown sugar or honey

1/2 can Loma Linda Redi-Burger, mashed

1 tablespoon each lemon juice and soy sauce

2 tablespoons parsley, chopped

salt to taste

Saute onion and garlic in oil until soft. Add all other ingredients. Simmer 10-15 minutes until quite thick. Filling may be used on pizza crust made of dough, frozen crescent rolls pressed into pizza shape or on individual English muffins.

To spice up the above, please find below a video on how to prepare pizzas

Surprise Salad Recipe

For those interested in salads as we all should do, I found the following recipe that will spice up your choice of salads. There is nothing that can match food in its raw form.  Cooking for all its benefits results in substantial losses in minerals and other nutrients that our bodies need.

SURPRISE SALAD

The ingredients are as follows: -

1 large red beet, grated

1 large onion, chopped

8 sweet sour cucumbers, chopped

1 bunch fresh dill, chopped

1 tin Nutolene, chopped

4 tablespoons tomato paste

4 tablespoons mayonnaise

4 tablespoons sour cream

Mix all the ingredients and leave for a few hours before serving. Serve on lettuce

leaves with wholemeal toast.

—Hannelore Gorsch, NSW

As usual below is a video on another salad recipe. Enjoy!