Recently I've been experimenting with cakes recipes and soaking my grain, after reading about the benefits of soaked grain in our
Nourishing Traditions
cookbook. Much of the cooking in it takes a little planning, ie deciding what you will eat the day before you eat it, but overall I'm finding it very worthwhile as my digestion has totally improved. It seems according to much of the
Weston Price research that soaked, or fermenting is what helps to make and grain, and in fact many other things, digestible for humans. This of course doesn't really suit industry, who threw many of these old fashioned practises out the window for speed, only now we're all suffering.
Anyhow I thought I'd also try varying a few recipes that I particularly like, by soaking the grains first, for those that are interested here's my first. If you're like me and not so keen on using loads of sugar, just use less, that's my plan for next time.
Chocolate Brownie Pudding
200g Butter
200g Spelt flour
330g Rapadura chocolate
3eggs
1 1/2 vanilla pods
200g unrefined/ rapadura chocolate
Melt chocolate and butter in a double boiler and melt slowly until mixed. Take off heat, and add flour. Mix flour through thoroughly and place under teatowel overnight.
Grease loaf tin
Set oven to 160celsius.
Beat eggs, vanilla seeds and sugar together. Continue beating, and add in large spoonfulls of the chocolate mixture until all is mixed. Pour into loaf tin and bake for forty minutes.
The mixture will be ready when the top is set, but it should be soft and goopy in the middle. Take out of oven, leave to cool slightly in tin, and serve with raw cream/ ice cream for desert.
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2025
This is before we went down the
GAPS (Gut and Psychology Syndrome) rabbit hole as part of our journey to heal Gabriel's digestive issues. All up we did GAPS for a little over 2 years, finishing up maybe a year after we moved to Perth in mid 2011. The final thing that really helped Gabriel was having his palate expanded. Although with more learning about
orthomoleculuar medicine in recent years I suspect that has main issue was a B1 or thiamine deficiency.
