Guest guest Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 Stephie, I love Donna's sunshine happy hippie granola! It's really flexible, so you can sub some of the tastes you like in the Nature's Path, like pumpkin seeds and cinnamon. (I think evaporated cane juice is raw sugar. I have no idea what oat syrup solids or rice bran extract are.) One of the nice things about granola is it tastes pretty similar raw to baked, so you can gauge how much you love it while you can still mix more goodies in! Have fun Peace, Mo PS Here's Donna's recipe: 3 cups rolled oats 1 cup slivered almonds 1 cup cashews or walnuts or pecans 1/2 cup shredded coconut 1/4 sunflower seeds 1/4 cup (packed extra full and a little above the top) of dark brown sugar 1/4 cup maple syrup (very full 1/4 cup) 1/4 cup canola oil two pinches of salt 1 cup raisins (I love the golden raisins but dark are fine too) Preheat oven to 250 degrees. In a large bowl combine oats, nuts, coconut and brown sugar. Mix well. In a separate bowl combine maple syrup, oil and salt, add this to the oat mixture and stir until thoroughly blended. Pour onto two cookie sheets. Bake for about 75 minutes (stir every 15 minutes for an even color). Remove from oven and place in large bowl and mix raisins in. I was making this back in ’69 and still making it now. I used to pack it up and it went along to Big Sur with all of us. We ate it for breakfast, as a snack in trails, dry or with soy milk. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have over the years. Now my niece makes it and she adds dried cranberries to hers, and my married nephew taught his wife how to make it for their daily breakfast. He adds cinnamon to his. It's wonderful as an ice cream topper too. Stephie wrote: > Good morning all! As I was finishing the last delicious morsel of > Nature's Path Organic Pumpkin FlaxPlus Granola, I read the ingredients > to see if I could try to make the granola at home. Here are the > ingredients: > > Rolled Oats > Evaporated Cane Juice > Soy Oil > Brown Rice Flour > Pumpkin Seeds > Flaxseed > Oat Syrup Solids > Sea Salt > Molasses > Rice Bran Extract > Cinnamon > > Doesn't sound too difficult to find those ingredients, but the > evaporated cane juice and oat syrup solids do not sound very familiar > to me. Does anyone know if these two ingredients are easy to come by? > Or by chance do you have a better (or easier!) granola recipe? > Kindly, Stephie > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 Thank you Mo and Donna for sharing this wonderful homemade granola recipe! Reminds me of the one my mother used to make for us back in the 70's too! Reminds me that I need to return to my roots! ~Stephie , Maureen <ailanthus wrote: > > Stephie, I love Donna's sunshine happy hippie granola! It's really > flexible, so you can sub some of the tastes you like in the Nature's > Path, like pumpkin seeds and cinnamon. (I think evaporated cane juice is > raw sugar. I have no idea what oat syrup solids or rice bran extract > are.) One of the nice things about granola is it tastes pretty similar > raw to baked, so you can gauge how much you love it while you can still > mix more goodies in! Have fun Peace, Mo > > PS Here's Donna's recipe: > > 3 cups rolled oats > 1 cup slivered almonds > 1 cup cashews or walnuts or pecans > 1/2 cup shredded coconut > 1/4 sunflower seeds > 1/4 cup (packed extra full and a little above the top) of dark brown sugar > 1/4 cup maple syrup (very full 1/4 cup) > 1/4 cup canola oil > two pinches of salt > 1 cup raisins (I love the golden raisins but dark are fine too) > > Preheat oven to 250 degrees. > > In a large bowl combine oats, nuts, coconut and brown sugar. Mix well. In a separate bowl combine maple syrup, oil and salt, add this to the oat mixture and stir until thoroughly blended. Pour onto two cookie sheets. Bake for about 75 minutes (stir every 15 minutes for an even color). Remove from oven and place in large bowl and mix raisins in. > > I was making this back in '69 and still making it now. I used to pack it up and it went along to Big Sur with all of us. We ate it for breakfast, as a snack in trails, dry or with soy milk. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have over the years. Now my niece makes it and she adds dried cranberries to hers, and my married nephew taught his wife how to make it for their daily breakfast. He adds cinnamon to his. It's wonderful as an ice cream topper too. > > > > > Stephie wrote: > > Good morning all! As I was finishing the last delicious morsel of > > Nature's Path Organic Pumpkin FlaxPlus Granola, I read the ingredients > > to see if I could try to make the granola at home. Here are the > > ingredients: > > > > Rolled Oats > > Evaporated Cane Juice > > Soy Oil > > Brown Rice Flour > > Pumpkin Seeds > > Flaxseed > > Oat Syrup Solids > > Sea Salt > > Molasses > > Rice Bran Extract > > Cinnamon > > > > Doesn't sound too difficult to find those ingredients, but the > > evaporated cane juice and oat syrup solids do not sound very familiar > > to me. Does anyone know if these two ingredients are easy to come by? > > Or by chance do you have a better (or easier!) granola recipe? > > Kindly, Stephie > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 You're so welcome, Stephie! I love pointing people to Donna's fabulous granola recipe! And I'm so glad it reminds you of a childhood goodie. There's something so special about recreating those tastes/recipes as adults! Peace, Mo Stephie wrote: > Thank you Mo and Donna for sharing this wonderful homemade granola > recipe! Reminds me of the one my mother used to make for us back in > the 70's too! Reminds me that I need to return to my roots! ~Stephie > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 Happy to see yet another good review. I love my old recipe and I have passed it all over the world too. Enjoy and happy healthy crunching Donna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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