Post by Sheila on Aug 11, 2010 19:04:09 GMT -5
Make your own nut flour.
It's messy and a pain but if you're patient and have extra time on
your hands, you can make nut flour. You just grind up about 1/2 cup
of nuts at a time until fine but before it turns into butter. If you want it finer,
sift it through a strainer. A pound of nuts yeilds 4 1/2 cups of sifted nut flour.
I put just enough almonds in the blender to just barely cover the blades then
put on the grind setting and stop it when the flour stops swirling. Then I pour
out the flour on top into a bowl and dig the bottom stuff out with a butter knife
into a strainer and then rub it through with my fingers until I get nothing but grainy
bits and put that in a cup then pour the top flour back into the blender and blend
again ( this may not be necessary but I feel like I'm getting it finer and
getting more out of it this way) then put it through the sifter and repeat
with the rest of the nuts. This takes me about an hour to process 1 pound of nuts.
I save the skins and grainy bits that get sifted out and eat it as a
snack-it's great mixed in sugar free yogurt or butter, cinnamon and stevia or butter
and sugar free maple syrup, use your imagination!
Ohhh yeah and sprinkled on a baked apple.Not good for making bread,pizza dough
or pasta that reqires glutin flour.
It's messy and a pain but if you're patient and have extra time on
your hands, you can make nut flour. You just grind up about 1/2 cup
of nuts at a time until fine but before it turns into butter. If you want it finer,
sift it through a strainer. A pound of nuts yeilds 4 1/2 cups of sifted nut flour.
I put just enough almonds in the blender to just barely cover the blades then
put on the grind setting and stop it when the flour stops swirling. Then I pour
out the flour on top into a bowl and dig the bottom stuff out with a butter knife
into a strainer and then rub it through with my fingers until I get nothing but grainy
bits and put that in a cup then pour the top flour back into the blender and blend
again ( this may not be necessary but I feel like I'm getting it finer and
getting more out of it this way) then put it through the sifter and repeat
with the rest of the nuts. This takes me about an hour to process 1 pound of nuts.
I save the skins and grainy bits that get sifted out and eat it as a
snack-it's great mixed in sugar free yogurt or butter, cinnamon and stevia or butter
and sugar free maple syrup, use your imagination!
Ohhh yeah and sprinkled on a baked apple.Not good for making bread,pizza dough
or pasta that reqires glutin flour.