Margery's Granola
"Tasty but not treacly like many store-bought granolas. My friends always ask for this granola when they visit from out of town. A friend from England shared it with me and I modified slightly."
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
-
16
ingredients
- 12 cups rolled oats
- 1 1⁄2 cups wheat germ (untoasted)
- 2 cups shredded unsweetened coconut
- 2 2 cups almonds or 2 cups cashews
- 1 cup canola oil or 1 cup other mild vegetable oil
- 1 1⁄2 cups honey
- 2⁄3 cup hot water
- 1 tablespoon sea salt
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
directions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Lightly heat the honey in a microwave for 30 seconds or so until it is runny.
- Dissolve the salt in the hot water.
- Combine the honey, salt, water, oil and vanilla in a medium bowl and stir well.
- Combine the dry ingredients in a large bowl then stir in the wet incredients and mix well.
- Turn into a large roasting pan, about 16" x 13" x 3".
- Bake for 20 minutes without stirring.
- Thoroughly stir mixture every 5 minutes thereafter until browned to your preference.
- *Toasted wheat germ will get too brown so use untoasted. Buy it refrigerated from your health food store rather than off the shelf if possible. It gets rancid quickly.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Cookbook faves: any of the Greens cookbooks; Private Collection 1 & 2: Junior League of Palo Alto; The Splendid Table by Lynne Rossetto Kasper; The Foods and Wines of Spain by Penelope Casas; A Cookbook for Poor Poets and Others by Ann Rogers (for sentimental reasons).
