Playing CR Recipe Ideas...

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Suz wrote:

Yeah good buddy...what's with the butter and maple syrup? We're all flying offlist emails around trying to figure out why you included those in your concoction! I'd guess there's some good reason why you want them in there. Could you enlighten us?

Dean wrote:

As to "what's with the butter & maple syrup", hey-yah, just checking to see if anyone is reading this stuff closely? :-) lol.

Hi Suz! :-) (I'm caught "red-handed"... yep! :=)

I was actually experimenting WITH TASTE & MOUTH FEEL -not exactly CR or nutrition! LOL. I don't know jack about baking, or "that" game :-), but I read about CREAMING & moisture & "caramelizing" using butter & sugar, etc.

Purposively, if you "whip butter" with air & sugar "just right" you can get a much better tasting baked item including super "mouth feel" (whatever that is). Here's a KOOL BAKING WEBSITE that explains it better:

http://www.baking911.com/howto_cream.htm

So, I was trying to whip butter with Splenda for this CREAMING effect. The problem is I don't think I use enough butter in the recipe for it to even work!

The maple sugar & syrup was for the "caramelizing" & moisture & mouth feel & taste thing too. All done to compare to future test batches.

Obviously, none of those ingredients or techniques are exactly CR or high nutrition, but it's interesting the calories per serving did not change that much either. (So for some, maybe non-cr family members, taste might be more important than calories or nutrition.)

Heck, I even want to try using tomato paste & watermelon & a bunch of other weird ideas, but I thought it best to do the "normal" & traditional techniques first. That way I can compare "normal" with my "creative" (whacked) CR or nutrient ingredients-ideas later!

If anybody knows of interesting ingredients to try please post your ideas or send to me off-list.

I've seen these commonly listed in other cr recipes too:

Rice Bran

Wheat Bran

Papaya

Pumpkin

Endive

Guava

Sweet potato

Kale

Spinach

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