[pct-l] Fw: Re: Non-Cooked Food - Share Your Recipes!

[linsey]

--- On Tue, 2/8/11, linsey <mowoggirl at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: linsey <mowoggirl at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [pct-l]  Non-Cooked Food - Share Your Recipes!
To: "giniajim" <jplynch at crosslink.net>
Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 5:58 PM

They keep fine for a couple/few weeks, at home I keep them frozen then they go into a resupply box and do fine thru the mail and then some.  Recently I ate some that had been sitting out thawed for about four months, part of that time in the fridge, and they tasted somewhat stale but didn't make me sick.  I've also eaten them after being frozen over a year and they were okay but not as good as say 6 months frozen or fresh...

--- On Tue, 2/8/11, giniajim <jplynch at crosslink.net> wrote:

From: giniajim <jplynch at crosslink.net>
Subject: Re: [pct-l]  Non-Cooked Food - Share Your Recipes!
To: "linsey" <mowoggirl at yahoo.com>, pct-l at backcountry.net, pacificcresttrail2011 at gmail.com, pcronshaw at cox.net
Date:
 Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 5:45 PM



 
 


 
How do these keep, especially during hot weather 
hiking?  
 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  linsey 
  
  To: pct-l at backcountry.net ; pacificcresttrail2011 at gmail.com 
  ; pcronshaw at cox.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 8:39 
  PM
  Subject: [pct-l] Non-Cooked Food - Share 
  Your Recipes!
  
These homemade bars obviously need to be made in advance, but 
  once on the trail they are no-cook.  I've made nearly 1000 of them and 
  haven't gotten sick of them yet.  When hiking I eat five a day.  
  

Cereal Bars: my recipe is an evolution of the High Energy Cereal Bar 
  recipe from "A Fork in the Trail" by Laurie March although enough changes in 
  quantities, technique, and ingredients have been made that I feel okay about 
  passing out this recipe.

1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4+ 
  raw unsalted peanut or almond butter
2 1/2 cups healthy cereal such as 
  Trader Joe's All Bran or any by Heritage Farms: crushed if flaked. Look for 
  cereals with the fewest ingredients. 
1/2 cup chopped dried fruit of 
  choice
1/2 cup chopped nuts or seeds
1/3 cup unsweetened carob 
  chips
1/2 teaspoon salt

Lightly oil an eight inch square 
  pan.

Combine cereal, chopped dried fruit, chopped nuts, unsweetened 
  carob chips, and salt--set aside.

In a large pot over medium low heat, 
  combine honey and brown sugar and stir until it just bubbles. (Too long or too 
  much heat results in a brittle bar.)

Remove from heat and stir in nut 
  butter, quickly.

Add cereal/dry ingredients and mix thoroughly until 
  chips are melted and incorporated. I use a wooden spatula for this vigorous 
  stirring. 

Press firmly into oiled pan, finishing with the oiled bottom 
  of a mixing cup to really flatten the bars uniformly.

Chill briefly (15 
  minutes in the freezer), turn out onto cutting board and let come to room 
  temperature before cutting into 10 bars.

Wrap individual bars in 6 inch 
  square unbleached waxed tissue, the kind the bakery's use to grab 
  cookies--available at restaurant supply stores. Encase in freezer bag and 
  store in the freezer until needed for hiking and/or resupply boxes. 
  


Some of my favorite combinations are blueberries or sour cherries 
  with almonds and almond butter, Heritage Farms Mesa Sunrise cereal or other 
  corn based flakes with peanut butter and walnuts and cranberries. Sunflower 
  seeds because they're so inexpensive. The important thing is to mix it 
  up.

I've used chocolate chips instead of carob, but vastly prefer 
  carob: it is high fiber but spendy. Actually many different chips would work 
  but some contain hydrogenated fat. 

Incidentally, the spent waxed 
  tissue makes excellent TP (carry out, don't bury) or emergency firestarter. 
  White bleached waxed tissue tends to stick to the bars (but is more absorbent 
  as TP), brown unbleached tissue works 
  better.



      
  
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