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Feb 22, 2013 at 7:55 am #1299581
For those who are interested I made some fruity bars.
If you are interested in the recipe, have a look at my blog.
Feb 24, 2013 at 8:45 am #1958060Those look really simple and good, thanks!
Feb 24, 2013 at 9:41 am #1958084Indeed. 30min and you have these excellent bars
Feb 24, 2013 at 12:10 pm #1958157These look awesome. Any tips on what kind of meat grinder is needed? I could imagine nuts could be hard on a grinder with plastic gears. Anyone have any experience with basic, low-end grinders?
Cheers,
Bill
Feb 24, 2013 at 12:37 pm #1958170A cheap all-metal grinder is under $50 and will handle nuts with no problem.
Ask around in your neighborhood. Ask any "oldster" out there. There are a lot of these just gathering dust on the shelves of friends and family, and I'm sure they'd be happy to make a short term loan.
Feb 24, 2013 at 12:41 pm #1958176Nice. Thanks for sharing.
Once you get setup with a small stock of whole ingredients the cost per bar should be significantly more affordable than a store bought Pro Bar equivalent.
Feb 24, 2013 at 1:35 pm #1958205@ William
I bought a normal aluminum meatgrinder in a discounter for 10€. Did want to pay lots of money. If you take care with this meat grinder you can make lots of bars
@ Eugene
I paid for all my ingredients round about 8€. All these together weigh one kilogram.
If I would buy bars in the shop I would probably pay around 30€ for 20 bars with a weight of 50g.Feb 24, 2013 at 8:46 pm #1958363A food processer does the job quick and easy……and a LOT easier to clean than a metal grinder I might add.
Feb 24, 2013 at 9:23 pm #1958370They probably taste better coming out the other end of a meat grinder.
Feb 24, 2013 at 11:33 pm #1958382my food processer hat some problem with the sticky dates. so I used the meat grinder
Feb 25, 2013 at 9:19 am #1958478Are you using Medjool dates? Just wondering. My fp doesn't have issues, it beats them into submission in under a minute ;-) Although I have noticed that the Medjool's I buy from Costco are super soft, which makes for easy processing.
Feb 26, 2013 at 2:39 am #1958775Don't kniw if my dates are Medjool ones. I think it is a oroblem of my food proceesor. It is a really cheap one from the discounter
Feb 26, 2013 at 7:42 am #1958817I do miss the old meat grinders though – my Mom and I used to use them to make vegetable relish, that we canned, every year. We had 2 of them. Hated cleaning them though…lol!
Feb 26, 2013 at 8:42 pm #1959114I've been kicking around the idea of home made Cliff Bars and these look pretty close in texture.
A couple questions:
The ingredients appear to shelf stable but you've refrigerated the bars. Is this to keep them firm or are you concerned that they will go bad? I'd like to make several of these to take out for a week.
Any chance you've calculated calories per oz?
Thanks for sharing!
Ian
Feb 26, 2013 at 10:37 pm #1959143He Ian
I put some in thr refrigerator and the other half I stored in a box in the kitchen to test if they would go bad, but normally I did not store the ingredients in the refrigerator without any problem.
Osrry but I did not calculated the calories per oz.
Feb 27, 2013 at 5:06 am #1959160Ich brauche ein rezept für rucksackreisen jaegerschnitzle auch!
I haven't been back to Germany since 1995 so hopefully that resembled German (had to look up a couple words)!
Well you've motivated me to pick up a grinder. Thanks for sharing this recipe.
Feb 27, 2013 at 8:46 am #1959219Why don't you guys try Logan Bread? It is full of just about any fruit or dry fruit such as dates. I've posted the recipe previously. Without any refrigeration, I routinely store it for a few months at a time, and it never spoils unless I mess up and get too much liquid in the batter.
–B.G.–
Feb 27, 2013 at 9:06 am #1959226Good morning Bob,
I've looked up a couple recipes for Logan Bread and I believe yours was one of them; I'm going to try that as well.
v/r
Ian
Feb 27, 2013 at 1:53 pm #1959374Once you have tried your first batch of Logan Bread, you will know how you want to modify it for your own tastes. You can make it drier if you want it to last longer. I've eaten Logan Bread that was six months old, and it was simply in a ziploc sandwich bag. If you make it too dry, you will break a tooth on it.
Some people like it with more nuts. Some like it with their favorite dry fruit. Some people use more cooking oil to make it seem moister.
Do not use fresh fruit.
–B.G.–
Feb 28, 2013 at 1:46 am #1959591really good. A true KISS-product.
I always bring a kind of GORP mixture, but this seems more delicius.
Feb 28, 2013 at 6:06 am #1959622Thanks to both Benjamin and Bob for both of these ideas. I look forward to trying them. After reading Bob's original post on Logan Bread, I thought to myself – he knows the secret of Lembas!
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