3 Homemade Desserts - No Sugar or Flour

[odanny]

All natural sugar only. Not hard to make, either. The best desserts have the fewest, all natural ingredients.

 

[1srelluc]

Need to get shed of those peanuts....Black walnuts for the win!

Your normal back in the day commercial "hard" sugar cookie had six ingredients.....Now the "soft" ones have 20.....Mostly various chemicals to make them last.

 

[odanny]

Need to get shed of those peanuts....Black walnuts for the win!

Your normal back in the day commercial "hard" sugar cookie had six ingredients.....Now the "soft" ones have 20.....Mostly various chemicals to make them last.

The 2nd recipe has walnuts, I always have a lb. of organic walnuts in the house, they are so healthy, and supply your brain with much needed fats (fights Dementia/Alzheimers). I mix them into everything or eat by itself.

 

[1srelluc]

The 2nd recipe has walnuts, I always have a lb. of organic walnuts in the house, they are so healthy, and supply your brain with much needed fats (fights Dementia/Alzheimers). I mix them into everything or eat by itself.

I remember (not fondly) gathering black walnuts in burlap sacks, piling them up till the husks got loose and spending hours husking/cracking/picking out the meat.

You don't even want to know how long it took to get a pound, then dry them and get 2/3rds of that.

It was kinda-sorta worth it when my mom made her applesauce cakes, she would bake a dozen or so and sell all but two to a local restaurant.

They usually weighed about 4-5# each. They took to freezing well so we had one at Christmas and another at Easter.

Back then nobody left black walnuts on the ground and you better not be getting them from under someone else's tree unless you wanted your ass beat.....Now I see them laying around everywhere.

 

[odanny]

I remember (not fondly) gathering black walnuts in burlap sacks, piling them up till the husks got loose and spending hours husking/cracking/picking out the meat.

You don't even want to know how long it took to get a pound, then dry them and get 2/3rds of that.

It was kinda-sorta worth it when my mom made her applesauce cakes, she would bake a dozen or so and sell all but two to a local restaurant.

They usually weighed about 4-5# each. They took to freezing well so we had one at Christmas and another at Easter.

Back then nobody left black walnuts on the ground and you better not be getting them from under someone else's tree unless you wanted your ass beat.....Now I see them laying around everywhere.

Are those the type of walnuts you have to wear gloves when husking?

When I was a boy in the 70's, I was given a 5 gallon bucket and a pair of gloves and told to get to work. Of course the rubber gloves were too big and I did them all by hand. For the next week my hands were black and it would not wash off, I definitely remember trying to wash it off and going to school like that, and for that reason alone I remember this, otherwise I would never remember husking a 5 gallon bucket of walnuts (I think they were black walnuts but I don't remember)

 

[1srelluc]

Are those the type of walnuts you have to wear gloves when husking?

When I was a boy in the 70's, I was given a 5 gallon bucket and a pair of gloves and told to get to work. Of course the rubber gloves were too big and I did them all by hand. For the next week my hands were black and it would not wash off, I definitely remember trying to wash it off and going to school like that, and for that reason alone I remember this, otherwise I would never remember husking a 5 gallon bucket of walnuts (I think they were black walnuts but I don't remember)

Yep, you learned.

Walnut husks were used to dye cloth way back in the day.

Dyeing with Tannic Acid and Iron: Walnut Husks - Medievalists.net

This paper discusses the use of walnut to dye fabric.

www.medievalists.net

During the American Civil War era, the term "butternut" referred to the dye made from the butternut tree, which was used to color clothes. The dye produced a brownish/tan color.

Butternut dyed confederate uniform.

 

[MayorQuimby]

Like, I can understand no sugar, but if someone can make a pastry without flour, then that is goddamn amazing.

 

[odanny]

So I made one today, similar to the above, recipe is on the same channel.

1 cup oatmeal (blended), then blended 2 apples with a cup of water, added 2 eggs, mixed, then added smashed banana, 1/2 cup both of blueberries and crushed walnuts. Also added a tsp of cinnamon, should have made it a Tbsp, it's not bad at all heated up with butter on it, lacks traditional sugary taste and I like that best about it. A desert with actual ingredients that are good for you. Get organic oats for cheap at health food store.

It stuck to the bottom of the dish even after buttering it.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Like, I can understand no sugar, but if someone can make a pastry without flour, then that is goddamn amazing.

Flour for bread and pastry is traditionally wheat, so rice flour, tapioca starch, and almond flour are all substitutes for wheat flour.

 

[MayorQuimby]

Flour for bread and pastry is traditionally wheat, so rice flour, tapioca starch, and almond flour are all substitutes for wheat flour.

Ah, I see; so there is still some type of flour, just not wheat flour. I was thinking along the lines of buttered toast without any actual toast, lol.