I have been experimenting with cracker recipes, in my dream to someday soon go "boxless." (Have nothing in my home that is in a pre-packaged box like cereals, crackers, etc.) I've tried graham crackers, wheat thins, and teething biscuits with varied success. No big moment until recently-
I have finally found a choke-free, easy, normal-ingredient (not all those crazy baby-nutrition spaz ingredients) recipe! These bicsuits literally just MELT, pieces don't break off.
...and Fisher loves them! He just got his 2nd tooth yesterday too, 2 days after his first!
Here's the recipe I found at http://my-teething-baby.com/teething-biscuit-recipies.php:
TEETHING BISCUITS (classic from the Buffalo News)
Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup instant nonfat dry milk powder
1/2 cup wheat germ
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
¾ cup sugar
¾ cup vegetable oil
1 egg
1/2 cup undiluted, frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
Directions:
Combine flour, milk powder, wheat germ, baking powder, cinnamon and salt together.
In another bowl, combine sugar and oil. Beat in the egg and orange juice and gradually add flour mixture to make a stiff dough. Refrigerate for 1 to 2 hours.
Place greased cookie sheet on damp towel to keep from sliding. Place dough on cookie sheet and flatten, rolling out to within 1 inch of the edge.
Cut into 2 by 3/4-inch bars; separating the cookies isn't necessary. Bake 15 minutes in preheated 375-degree oven until light brown.
Remove from oven; recut on the same lines. Return to oven. Turn off heat and let set until oven is cool. Makes about 6 dozen cookies that can be frozen and thawed as needed.
*Note: I used wheat flour, bran instead of wheat germ, and 3 tbsp of mayo instead of eggs. They turned out awesome!
3 comments:
That's cool Jennilyn. So you make your own cereal? I wish....cereal is expensive. Of course I am not sure they have a recipe for Cocoa Puffs and Cookie Crisp which Doug likes...and my kids' favorite is Lucky Charms and making homemade marshmallow is a pain (although SUPER yummy). Do you have a recipe for a normal cracker that's yummy?
way to go green, Jennilyn! I'll have to give the recipe to my sil who just had a baby. :)
I got so close to being boxless once but then the kids started public school and it just seemed like I could never get stuff made with the extra requirements of my time. I still try to go low packaging though.
I'll never forget the time that Albertsons had a ginormous sale on premade junk foods. I thought I would be "cool" mom and buy a bunch of them for my kids (granola bars, hot pockets, mini pizzas, etc). I was so shocked by the amount of garbage that came of that and the kids only liked half of the things anyway. I will never make that mistake again.
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