Provenance: Digging further into the recipe box back on LiveBlog Sunday, I discovered an index card with a recipe that seems to derive from, but be somewhat more exact than, the Ex-Girlfriend Granola recipe we have discussed before. Sometime between 1991 and, at the latest, 1999, I must have codified a working version of the recipe. As usual, I have no memory of this.
The Recipe:
Set oven to 300 F.
Melt in a large baking pan:
The Recipe:
Set oven to 300 F.
Melt in a large baking pan:
A stick of ButterMix in:
½ cup Honey
½ cup Maple Syrup
1 Tbsp Vanilla
2 Tbsp Water
5+ cups OatsCook an hour and 15 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes.
½ cup Wheat Germ
½ cup Sunflower Seeds
1 cup Nuts
1 Tbsp Cinnamon
1 tsp Nutmeg
1 tsp Allspice
The Results:
With 5 cups of Oats, the recipe is much more manageable to work with than with the vast volume of oats I tried last time. Indeed, this seems like maybe too FEW oats – it’s a pretty rich cereal in these proportions. Also, the Cinnamon-Nutmeg-Allspice combo strikes me as unnecessarily complicated, and probably just reflects my college self throwing in everything at hand. I’m thinking maybe go up to 7 cups of Oats, and eliminate the Nutmeg?
Incidentally, it doesn’t seem to matter too much for this recipe whether you use whole or rolled oats.
4 comments:
Hmmm. Maybe this recipe is what broke you up? An awful lot of sweet, a lotta butter...no nuts, no coconut, no raisins or other dried fruit....I like nutmeg and cinnamon myself, but granola itself has so much flavor that it does seem superfluous. I pretoast the oats, then add the rest of the stuff, stirring in the oil and honey last before doing a shorter bake/stir cycle. (Oh, I'm back! Daughter about to depart grad school in one state, move to another. We helped her find a house near new job. Yay!)
Whole oats sound better... (I have a box that actually mixed a few grain/seed together. Off have it has flax seeds in addition the oats.)
maybe a pumpkin or apple spice mix instead of individual spices.
Whole oats? You mean oat groats? Those have to be cooked forever, so I'm guessing you mean something else?
I haven't made granola in years, but I do remember that I used oil instead of butter. Have you tried that? And I agree -- it's hardly worth it for only 5 cups of oats.
I'm sure M5000 means rolled oats in both cases--but you could use 'quick' oats (though it is not as good for you as "old fashioned" rolled oats.) Steel-cut oats can only be cooked with water (and they do take about an hour.)
I used canola oil and honey. The nuts and oats are so good that really, spices are superfluous, and if you don't like the outcome and are stuck with 2 quarts of flavored granola..... well....
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