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["Frances and David" <fdnokes@hotmail.com>]

Do you have a source to recommend for hand crank items?

I have been making water based kefir drinks with the fruit tree harvest. We 
call them fizzy drinks.
Apples work well and nice when ginger is added. Makes for a ginger ale like 
experience.
I was whizzing up the fruit with water then straining through cloth. The 
pulp makes a nice raw applesauce that keeps for days in the fridge (or 
becomes a little ripe and is still good).
I find apple pectin an agreeable input in the fall.
People have called the body the temple, but I'm finding it no stretch at all 
to think of it as a garden.
One food I like to eat for its highly nutritive content is chia seeds. I've 
taken to eating them whole in something like raw apple sauce or cooked oats 
or oat bran. I feel that they retain their efa 3's further down the 
alimentary canal that way, as efa's 3's are particularly heat sensitive. So, 
I eat them with their protective spherical shape intact. Yummy, too.
I ate no starches whatsoever for many years. Definitely no grains. In the 
end, it was wonderful to get back to eating some. But, earlier, it was a 
revelation to go without and helped me to focus my mind.

Back to the bread topic for a minute. Dave and I were chatting about the 
grains and it's the gluten that will make a difference in actually forming a 
bread that will hold together.
Sprouts are just a really neat way to find superior nutrition and more 
alkalinizing chemistry in many seeds and grains.  Kitchen as garden.

Frances




-----Original Message----- 
From: venaurafarm
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 4:55 PM
To: permaculture
Subject: Re: [permaculture] nutrition -- sprouted kamut bread

On 10/28/2012 7:16 PM, FranandDave Nokes wrote:
> We did try some with other techniques, including using a meat grinder
> for a while. It was just a little meat grinder so there was a lot of
> loading to do. This gives a chewier texture without the grains

That's the info I was looking for. I will then stick with my large
collection of hand crank: food grinders, meat grinders, grain mills

I am sure they will do the job. I would prefer the chewy texture too.

Raw apple date sauce:

A recipe for tart sweet apples, raw and with sweet Barhis dates:

Chill the apples

core and cut into large slices

feed slices into a hand crank, tabletop mounted meat grinder with coarse
screen

add many Barhis dates along with the apple slices to the grinder

put coarse apple-date sauce in bowl and enjoy this excellent raw food
for breakfast by itself - make it the whole meal

> thoroughly broken down. We paid a 100 for the food processor and it
> does many things, including shredding and slicing. We actually make
> all of the food we eat, and do not use much of anything at all that
> is processed other than, say, some matcha tea, if you call that
> processed. Oh, and things like dried this or that and maybe a powder
> or two (moringa being my latest). Thanks for the smorg of food for

I may have to try this. I usually drink coffee but I hear it works
against friendly gut microflora so I switched 1/2 time to green or
jasmine tea. I like herb tea most of the time

> thought below. Shall check in with that a little later. Following
> Dave's progress in the search for camper van! Greetings from the west

Camper van: lots of issues with used equipment, including engine. For my
money maybe OK if you get a bargain, otherwise maybe a money sinkhole.
Get a Toyota truck and build your own camper onto it, 2 storey!

> coast. Lovely, calm, day without rain. Hope you're okay out east!
> Fran

Hurricane/tropical storm coming up North of me.

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