I wanted to make my own version of toaster cakes, using a combination of regular and foraged ingredients. I havent actually eaten a commercial version in many years, since I stopped supporting the major food corporations, but I figured that It couldnt be too hard to make my own. As usual, I mixed half acorn flour with regular flour, butter, Himalayan salt and water to make my pastry. The filling consisted of apples, autumn olives, raisins and coconut palm sugar - a total of nine (organic) ingredients, including the water. The results were flaky, delicious and pretty darned healthy - high in lycopene and anti-oxidents. On the other hand, I could have saved myself the work and simply bought a box of Pop Tarts, with 4 types of sugar, 6 artificial colors, artificial flavor and several ingredients that are almost certainly GMOs (including citric acid, gelatin, high fructose corn syrup, soybean oil, cornstarch and soy lecithin). Here is the full list of ingredients: ENRICHED* FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE [VITAMIN B1], RIBOFLAVIN [VITAMIN B2], FOLIC ACID), CORN SYRUP, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, DEXTROSE, SUGAR, SOYBEAN AND PALM OIL (WITH TBHQ FOR FRESHNESS), CONTAINS TWO PERCENT OR LESS OF CRACKER MEAL, WHEAT STARCH, SALT, CORNSTARCH, DRIED STRAWBERRIES, DRIED PEARS, DRIED APPLES, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE), CITRIC ACID, GELATIN, NATURAL WILDBERRY FLAVOR, XANTHAN GUM, CARAMEL COLOR, SOY LECITHIN, MODIFIED WHEAT STARCH, BLUE #2 LAKE, CARMINE COLOR, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, RED #40, RED #40 LAKE, BLUE #1 LAKE, NIACINAMIDE, REDUCED IRON, PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE (VITAMIN B6), BLUE #2, YELLOW #5 LAKE, RIBOFLAVIN (VITAMIN B2), THIAMIN HYDROCHLORIDE (VITAMIN B1), FOLIC ACID, YELLOW #6. *the word enriched denotes that chemical vitamins have been added, which have been demonstrated to be all but useless, as compared to natural vitamins.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 18:22:14 +0000
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