SC - Flours was:[Dstlg] beer bread, OOP

[marilyn traber]

The source id from 'Back to Eden' by Jethro Kloss. A peculiar herbal written
by a contemporary to Dr. Kellogg, and in my eyes just as flakey. He has a
morbid though period fascination with immediate high enemas for
everything-no matter what the illness. In a sense, he was right for the time
had an abyssmal understanding of the basic metabolism. He also advocated a
vegetarian diet, including nut butters and gluten meat substitution as well
as using soy beans to produce milk and dairy products.

To extract the gluten from flour, take your desired amount of flour, i have
done it with the basic 1 lb bag as an experiment, i bought the unbleached
whole wheat flour and didnt want to commit myself to keeping around the rest
of a 5 lb bag- it was norfolk va, and there was a roach problem in the
apartment building I was in.

Mix it with enough flour to make the equivalent of bread dough, kneading it
to produce the  gluten. Now it gets messy. You take your dough lump, put it
in a bowl, let it sit for 5-10 minutes, then pour water into the bowl. let
the dough sit in the water for a couple of minutes, then roll the lump
around until the water gets milky with the starch. i  would assume that you
could save the water and dry out the starch if you really wanted to be
frugal...repeat ad nauseum until you have about 1/4 the mass left, and it is
mostly gluten. It is hard to describe the difference between gluten and
dough, except it is sort of translucent and not gummy to the touch. You do
have to be careful not to oversoak the dough in any particular batch of
water so it doesnt turn into paper machier glue, and I found it works better
if you knead the mass gently to bring the starch to the surface to soak it
off better. It is a strange  process, and at the time you could buy gluten
paste in haealthfood stores- I was just curious about the recipe in the
book.

Margali



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