Whole Wheat Carrot Cake Muffins-Dehydrated Carrot Food Storage Recipes

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Ingredients:
2 c. brown sugar, packed
1 c. oil
3 eggs (3 T. Dehydrated Eggs + 1/3 c. water…if you want a really fun trick use your left over carrot or raisin water to add to the egg powder.)
2 c. carrots, finely grated (1c. dehydrated carrots. Pulse in blender before re-hydrating to make them smaller pieces. They take 20 minutes in cold water to rehydrate so if you need them sooner, simply put them in warmer water.)
1 c. crushed pineapple, drained (If you have orange juice you’ll be serving, drain the pineapple juice into your orange juice for a fun topical blend orange juice.)
3 c. whole wheat flour
1 t. salt
1 T. soda
1 t. cinnamon
2 t. vanilla
1 c. raisins
1 c. walnuts, broken

Method:

Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour 2 bread pans, 1 Bundt pan, or 2 muffin pans (12 each) with vegetable cooking spray. Beat together brown sugar, oil and eggs (no need to reconstitute eggs before adding to this mix). Stir in carrots and pineapple. Blend together dry ingredients; stir into batter thoroughly. Add vanilla, raisins, and nuts. Pour into prepared pan. Bake bread pans for 40-45 minutes, muffins for 20 minutes, and Bundt pan 1 hour or until done.
Makes 1 Bundt pan, 2 bread pans, or 24 muffins.

Adding the nuts on top of the muffins not only gives it a great look and flavor (it lightly toasts the nuts) but it is also a great way to serve nut lovers and non-nut lovers alike since it becomes obvious which have nuts and which don’t.

FHE Tidbit: 72 Hour Kits and Food Storage Treat Recipe

Okay, I have this feeling that most of you (at least if you’re female) feel entirely overwhelmed with everything you have to do in the day what with taking kids to school, laundry (YUCK!), preparing meals, soccer practice, and on top of it all spending time together as a family….oh yeah and that HUGE project of getting prepared. Well, you all probably know by now that I’m a HUGE fan of multi-tasking so I figured why couldn’t you make getting prepared a family event?! I asked my good friends at www.foodstoragemadeeasy.net to help me (since they have all the WONDERFUL information on getting your food storage gathered and basic emergency preparedness) with some Family Home Evening Tidbits. They are quick ideas that will help you on the road to becoming prepared! At the end there is also a treat you can make using your food storage. So all in a night, you’ll have spent time together as a family, taken a step towards being prepared, and practiced using your food storage! AWESOME!

This week I thought “Milk Jug 72 hour kits” would be fun and easy to get people prepared…here is what Jodi from www.foodstoragemadeeasy.net has to say about it:

What a great treat for talking about 72 hour kits! This recipe comes entirely from shelf stable items and happens to be my all time favorite cookie recipe (HONEST!)

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
*a tip before you begin…I always soak my raisins in water & vanilla so that the raisins are plump and juicy and taste like vanilla. If you don’t have a lot of time you can heat the water, vanilla, and raisins in the microwave for 2 minutes. Remember that you can definitely use your leftover water to hydrate your eggs!

Cream together:
1 C shortening
1 C brown sugar
1 C white sugar
2 eggs (2 T. dry egg powder + 1/4 C. Water)
1 tsp. vanilla

Stir into creamed mixture
1 ½ C whole wheat flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. soda
3 C. oats
2 tsp. cinnamon
2 C. raisins

Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls and bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes.

Frankenstein’s Treat for you!-Applesauce Cupcakes: Whole Wheat Food Storage Recipes

I got these in the mail last week from my Mom and I knew exactly what they were….Applesauce Cupcakes.  A favorite recipe from my childhood (and my siblings).  I think it’s safe to say for my entire family that these were one of our all time favorite things to eat.  They weren’t made very often and so when they were, it was a REAL TREAT!  Now, while these are a perfect candidate for food storage and my mom’s Frankenstein poem she included with them was incredible cute…that isn’t what I wanted to share with you.  The real treasure to this package was on the inside of this card (after the Frankenstein song) where she shared the STORY behind this recipe.  

You see my Grandfather grew up with these cupcakes.  He grew up in a small farming community in Illinois where one of their main staple crops was apples (so you can imagine they had almost everything apple).  His mother made this recipe (and I use the word “recipe” lightly) and wanted his wife (my grandmother) to make them for him.  So my grandmother sat at the feet of her mother-in-law (a feat I don’t know many women who would do!) and watched her mound up flour, make a depression-well in the center, then add a pint of applesauce, and hand full of this or a pinch of that until it “looked right.”  After watching this, my grandmother had her mother-in-law do it again, this time my grandmother measured everything and made a real “recipe” for these cupcakes.  As I read this story, it dawned on me…I had been and was EATING HISTORY!  

So many times we read history, share stories, look at pictures, but how many times can we actually TASTE it?  To eat the exact same thing our ancestors made or to prepare it and continue on with the tradition.  This great grandmother of mine was born in the late 1800’s and who knows how far back this recipe had gone before her!  (If you notice there are no eggs in the recipe, which shows how old it really must be! Since really old recipes tried to avoid calling for eggs since they were harder for everyone to have at the time).  My point being that a lot of times we feel we are too busy for family history but think of all the memories, stories that are shared, teaching moments that can happen at the dinner table-eating food our mothers, grandmothers, etc. made and all while you’re eating together as a family!  In fact if you want a great Christmas present idea (besides this cute Halloween present idea), one year for Christmas when money was really tight, I made a recipe book for my husband’s immediate family (siblings and parents) which included all of their family favorites.  And because I know how many family memories and traditions are associated around the kitchen table, I also included stories, pictures of family dinners, memories, a chart of where everyone sat, which recipes were used for what occasions, and which were everyone’s favorites.  The cookbook itself took on a life of it’s own and it will be something we can all pass down to our kids so not only can they read history, but they’ll be able to TASTE IT!

Calhoon County Applesauce Cupcakes

Cream 1/2 c. butter and 2 c. sugar
Add 2 c. applesauce (about 1 lb. can) and 1 t. Vanilla
Add dry ingredients: 2 t. soda, 2 T. cocoa, 1/2 t. salt, 2 c. flour (my mom used half whole wheat and half all-purpose), 2 t. cinnamon, 1 t. cloves and beat until smooth
Stir in 1 c. raisins (this ingredient is important if you’re planning on giving this with the Frankenstein song)
Bake 2 dozen cupcakes at 375 for about 25-30 minutes or until done.  Cool.  Keep in plastic bag or Tupperware.  These cupcakes improve with age.  They are “aged” in a day or so when the paper wrappers peel easily from the cupcakes.  ENJOY! 

Frankenstein’s Song:

Oh My Darlin’ Frankenstein

(Sing to the tune of ”Oh My Darlin’ Clementine”)

 

1) I was working, with my test tube, in my laboratory fine, When one day I broke my glasses and I made poor Frankenstein.

2) He was handsome, he was charming, and I nailed his head on tight, His teeth were nice and pearly, and his eyes came out at night.

3) Frankentstein helped in the kitchen, he was making up a cake, When he fell into the mixer, and got mixed up by mistake.

4) Cooking nicely in the oven, Oh the cake it came out fine.  Told my friends those lumps were raisins, but those lumps were FRANKENSTEIN!

 

To make it easier on you, I’ve created the card for you to use!  Just download, by clicking HERE, and there are four to a page. ENJOY tasting some of my history!

 

p.s. if you want to know where my mom got the cute caldrons, she got them at the Dollar Tree…one of my favorite stores! (obviously that runs in the family as well!)

Whole Wheat Pumpkin Bread: Whole Wheat Food Storage Recipes

Since I posted this last year, I’ve realized that this is also a great candidate for BEANS! Okay, maybe I’m a little obsessed with the beans but every time I try them, the recipe tastes SO MUCH BETTER and I guess I’m still a little in shock! Here is the recipe again…this time with BEANS.

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