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CHAPTER 9 Replacing White Flour with Whole Grains Your Goal: To replace refined (white) flour in your diet with a variety of hearty, nutritious whole grains full of vitamins, minerals, and fiber. You’ll learn how to make old-fashioned, whole-grain bread without mineral-leaching phytates, and without quick-rising commercial yeast that causes significant health problems. What You’ll Need: You can grind grain in your high-powered blender. (Note that if you're using a VitaMix blender, you will need a separate “dry” container for this.) But, if possible, you should have a grain mill (Blendtec offers an excellent one which we have in the GreenSmoothieGirl.com store). A grain mill allows you to grind large quantities of grains into very fine flour, especially helpful for cookies, cakes, and pastries. It is a good investment for a whole-foods kitchen. You’ll want to obtain a high-quality sourdough start. See our best source for sourdough bread starter for whole-grain breads under “Robyn Recommends” on GreenSmoothieGirl.com. You will also want a large bread-baking stone or bread pans. My great-great-great-great-great grandfather, the world-traveling pioneer Benjamin Franklin Johnson, once lived for six months on horseback eating nothing but cornmeal. He developed scurvy as a result, in addition to other nutritional deficiencies that made him susceptible to malaria and smallpox. I don’t recommend that one-grain-only diet! However, the Biblical prophet Ezekiel, as documented in Ezekiel 4:9, once lived on a combination of four grains and four legumes for over a year—resulting in much more robust health than my pioneer ancestor. Some companies now sell Ezekiel Bread, or a grain mix based on this formula of excellent proteins, complex carbohydrates, and fats. Every nutritional component needed by humans, except sunlight, is contained in that combination of grains and legumes. © Copyright Robyn Openshaw 12 Steps to Whole Foods 245
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CHAPTER 9<br />
Replacing White Flour with<br />
<strong>Whole</strong> Grains<br />
Your Goal:<br />
To replace refined (white) flour in your diet with a variety of hearty, nutritious whole grains full of<br />
vitamins, minerals, and fiber. You’ll learn how <strong>to</strong> make old-fashioned, whole-grain bread without<br />
mineral-leaching phytates, and without quick-rising commercial yeast that causes significant health<br />
problems.<br />
What You’ll Need:<br />
You can grind grain in your high-powered blender. (Note that if you're using a VitaMix blender, you<br />
will need a separate “dry” container for this.) But, if possible, you should have a grain mill (Blendtec<br />
offers an excellent one which we have in the GreenSmoothieGirl.com s<strong>to</strong>re). A grain mill allows you<br />
<strong>to</strong> grind large quantities of grains in<strong>to</strong> very fine flour, especially helpful for cookies, cakes, and<br />
pastries. It is a good investment for a whole-foods kitchen.<br />
You’ll want <strong>to</strong> obtain a high-quality sourdough start. See our best source for sourdough bread starter<br />
for whole-grain breads under “Robyn Recommends” on GreenSmoothieGirl.com.<br />
You will also want a large bread-baking s<strong>to</strong>ne or bread pans.<br />
My great-great-great-great-great grandfather, the world-traveling pioneer Benjamin Franklin Johnson,<br />
once lived for six months on horseback eating nothing but cornmeal. He developed scurvy as a result,<br />
in addition <strong>to</strong> other nutritional deficiencies that made him susceptible <strong>to</strong> malaria and smallpox. I don’t<br />
recommend that one-grain-only diet!<br />
However, the Biblical prophet Ezekiel, as<br />
documented in Ezekiel 4:9, once lived on a<br />
combination of four grains and four legumes<br />
for over a year—resulting in much more<br />
robust health than my pioneer ances<strong>to</strong>r. Some<br />
companies now sell Ezekiel Bread, or a grain<br />
mix based on this formula of excellent<br />
proteins, complex carbohydrates, and fats.<br />
Every nutritional component needed by<br />
humans, except sunlight, is contained in that<br />
combination of grains and legumes.<br />
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