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For those times when you ‘run out of petrol’, you
need to have extra ‘fuel’ easily accessible, in your
life jacket pocket. Individually wrapped dried fruit
and nut energy bars that line whole shelves of
supermarket isles sort out the snack or scroggin
issue. Or do they? If on apprenticeship wages
or saving up for a Kevlar boat then bought
biscuits and energy bars could be regarded as a
luxury. The solution is as old fashioned as large
families: make your own health biscuits or try
these “Bumble bees”. Guaranteed to revive and
rev you up! Your cadence will increase so much,
you’ll look like you are a bee, just flying along.
Bumble bees
Makes approx. 36
1 tin sweetened condensed milk
200g shredded coconut
200g raisins or sultanas
200g dried diced apricots
200g pitted diced dates
100g walnuts
75g glazed ginger
Method:
Step 1 Preheat oven to about 180 0 C.
Chop up the apricots, dates, walnuts
into small chunks and slice the ginger
cubes into slivers.
Step 2 Pour tin of condensed milk into
a large mixing bowl. Gradually add dry
ingredients, turning them into the milk so
that everything gets coated and sticky.
Step 3 Roll the mixture into balls a bit
bigger than a golf ball. Lay the balls onto
a baking tray covered with baking paper.
Or use ‘patty pans’ or ‘baking cups.’
Step 4 Cook for about 15 minutes.
Other dried fruit and nuts can be
substituted and ratios varied slightly.
Basically use 900grams (or 2 lbs) of
fruit/nuts per tin of condensed milk, plus
half a packet of ginger.
In future batches, from a cost
perspective, with walnuts at $37 kg I would use
peanuts or leave nuts out all together. With pitted
dates at $21 kg I would use only a few and increase
the proportions of the other fruit using more sultanas
or raisins (at $8 kg) or apricots (at $10.50 kg) and
coconut (at $6 a kg).
With 36 Bumble Bees averaging 38 grams each;
using the exact ingredients and proportions/ratios
in the recipe they cost 41cents each.
Although I could not compare kJ and nutritional
values, for fun I
did a price/weight
comparison of four
different packets of
supermarket energy
bars. A 35 gram bar
averaged out at 64
cents, over 50%
more expensive than
my very wholesome,
no preservative, and
no additives Bumble
Bees.
Recipe
Bumble Bees – energy to make you fly
by Ruth Henderson
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Kayakers N.Z. Inc.
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