Hi Karen:

Could you suggest something I could substitute for the flour and molasses in the recipe below? Thanks in advance. Ruth



November 19, 2004



with apologies to leslie stowe

6 p.m. Friday. You need cocktail nibbles for your dinner guests. Fast.

Once again, your reach for Leslie Stowe's delicious Raincoast Crisps, which you will serve with Salt Spring Island Goat Cheese embellished with a hot pink edible flower.

We'd done it time and time again at $8.99 a box. Until we realized: hey, I can do that!

Herewith, a foolproof recipe developed in the Vitamin V test kitchen:

Vitamin V Crisps

Combine in a bowl:

1/2 C white flour
1/4 C flax or wheat germ
1/4 C sesame seeds
1/4 C poppy seeds
1/4 C sunflower seeds, chopped
1/4 C pecans, chopped
1 teaspoon fine sea salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 tablespoons brown sugar

Set aside.

In a saucepan, over low heat, for less than one minute, combine:

1/4 C buttermilk
2 tablespoons blackstrap molasses

Gradually add wet ingredients to dry until dough just starts to hold together (you may not need all the liquid or may need a pinch more flour). Roll as thinly as possible between two sheets of parchment paper and bake on a cookie sheet in slow oven (250 degrees) for one hour.

After 30 minutes, take off top sheet of parchment paper.

When one hour is up, turn off oven with crisps still inside and forget about them.

You'll arrive home at 6 p.m. to a sheet of perfect crisps to break into bite-sized pieces.

Next week: homemade goat's cheese.

Kidding!





Need another dose?Vitaminv.ca
Not yet a subscriber? Sign-up here

It's the only addiction you won't have to justify.

Hmm...

Off the top of my head, vital wheat gluten and soy protein isolate for the flour, and instant coffee for the molasses.

But 'ya know their not really like RC. RC is baked in a loaf pan then sliced and crisped. They also have pumpkin seeds in them, or at least they did 6 years ago when I last had them.

Karen