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How do you use Grape Nuts?
at Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:23:58 GMT in
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(Jimmy Tango) wrote :
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>"Tigger News" > wrote in message
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>> Excuse the ignorance but what actually are grape nuts?
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>It's a crunchy, granola-like cereal. It's sold in the United States.
>Horrible, horrible stuff. Eating a bowl of road gravel would be tastier
>and easier on the teeth.
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Grape-nuts don't have to be rock-hard, as long as you let them sit in the
milk for some time to soak. About 10 minutes is all it needs. The soaking
helps with the flavour, too, because the milk absorbs some of it into
itself, so the nuggets actually taste like whole grains.
To expand on the description, what grape-nuts are is nuggets of whole wheat
and barley ground like semolina and then made into something very similar
to a coarse couscous. As you might expect, the behaviour is remarkably
similar to couscous so you can use them for couscous-like dishes. They
taste slightly sweeter than typical couscous. Steamed grape-nuts with
raisins and pine nuts is a great, quick way to start your day - sort of a
twist on pilaf.
Combined with medium-ground nuts (I prefer hazelnuts) and some butter, they
make an interesting and different pie crust a bit like a crumb crust. I
suppose there's no reason you couldn't omit the ground nuts, either, if you
preferred.
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Alex Rast
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