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Cracker Recipes
Topic Started: Mar 5 2012, 07:39 PM (229 Views)
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Here ya go HF...

Homemade Graham Crackers
Preheat oven to 350F
Makes 4 dozen or so depending on size.

•3/4 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
•1 1/2 cups whole-wheat graham flour
•1/2 cup sugar (use half brown sugar)
•1 teaspoon baking powder
•1/2 teaspoon baking soda
•1/2 teaspoon salt
•1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
•1/2 cup cold, unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
•4 tablespoons raw honey
•1/4 cup cold water
•1 teaspoon vanilla or maple extract
In an electric mixer mix the flours, sugars, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon together. Add the cold butter a few pieces at a time and mix until it resembles coarse crumbs or cornmeal. Add the honey, water, and vanilla (or maple). Mix until the dough comes together in a sticky ball. Roll the dough 1/2-inch thick between sheets of waxed paper.

Chill for 1 hour, or until firm. Lightly flour the dough and roll 1/8-inch thick. With a sharp knife or cookie cutters, cut into 2-inch squares, or the shape of your choice. Arrange the crackers on a silpat, or parchment lined cookie sheet. With a fork, prick several holes in each cracker.
Bake for 15 minutes, until lightly browned at the edges.

Remove from the oven and let cool in the pan.
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Animal Crackers

•1/2 c old fashioned oats-blended in blender until it is flour

•2 tsp honey

•1/4 tsp salt

•3/4 c flour

•1/4 tsp soda

•1/4 c unsalted butter, softened

•1/4 c buttermilk, do not use nonfat or low fat.

Don't grease the cookie sheets.

Grind 1/2 cup oatmeal at low speed in the blender until fine. Add honey, salt, flour and soda. Cut in butter until mixture forms crumbs and then add the buttermilk. Mix until it forms a ball and sticks together.

Roll thin, cut with animal shaped cookie cutters
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Basic Soda Crackers
2 c. flour

1/2 tsp. salt

2 1/2 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/4 c. butter

1/2 c. sour milk

1 lg. egg

In large bowl sift together flour, salt, and baking powder. Cut in butter until mixture is very fine. Add milk and egg. Mix to form a dough. Knead thoroughly and roll very thin. Cut into squares or rounds and place on lightly greased cookie sheets. Prick crackers with fork. Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes or until golden.


Bake at 400ºF until brown (10 to 12 minutes).





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Wow, my mouth is watering just reading this and I vision myself up to my eyeballs in flour flying around the kitchen! I had no idea crackers are such a complex food.

It kinda reminds me of bagels -only a jewish woman would knead, let rise, form, boil and then bake flour, eggs, oil and water into something that resembles a donut. Us Norse 'ears just throw flour, water and oil in a ball, roll it out and bake for flatbread.
Edited by HandFarming, Mar 6 2012, 01:37 PM.
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I have made fresh pretzels (unbelievable good) and bagels before. If I didn't have so much going on and didn't work I should do it more. It is time consuming and I just don't have enough time to do that anymore. Maybe if I ever get to retire, or after I get this meat business off the ground, I will have more time.
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One thing I found to help me keep streamlined is to keep things setup between uses so when I want to use it next time, it's ready.

I set up my milk system in a corner in the kitchen once milking starts. I also have a bread area and I think a cracker, flat bread or even noodle area would be handy right next to the flour and dry goods. That might save me some time, but I still need to get motivated to do it. . .one day I will have life in order.
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That sounds like a good plan. I just have a hard time with time management. I have so much going on. I am hoping that after I get my meat business set up that I will have more time. One can only hope.
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Let me know if you need help on the group sales thing.
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Our biggest problem is the government and all of their regs. They seem to change on a whim and have no apparent logic to them. Go figure.
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Well, the grinding of wild rice into flour didn't go so well. The wild rice has quite a thick outer layer and that just kind of cracked up and there isn't much inner part to seperate from it. So, I ended up with a very coarse, flaky kind of stuff. I didn't throw it away, I am going to see if I can cook it for hot cereal and see what it does. I'm not sure how they do it, but you can buy wild rice flour and I have in the past. Its pretty expensive, though and I was kind of liking the idea that maybe I could make my own. Maybe they have giagantic rollers that weigh 2 tons apiece and that's how they do it. The flour that I've bought is a kind of light brown and has a rather strong flavor - not everyone likes it. I do and I love it in pancakes and maple muffins!

But, the day was not a total failure - I made some wonderful chili and garlic oil. Its the easiest thing in the world to toss it with some cooked pasta and its delicious!

P.S. I won a hand crank pasta roller/cutter on eBay today too. Its a nice one and the lady that had it only used it once and decided she thought it was too much bother! Score for me!!!
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Awesome! I used to find good buys on eBay but now there seems to crowds of people looking for the same stuff and prices rocketed. I did score some wild rice from Canada since you can't seem to buy it in the US. Will see how growing wild rice goes.
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Did you try to run the flour through more than once? Sometimes with wheat, you run it through once, sift it and then run it through again. I love wild rice but the prices are unreal.
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