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Sesame Granola Recipe

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Ingredients And Procedures

1/2 c Vegetable oil

1/2 c Honey

1 t Vanilla extract

2 c Rolled oats (quick

-or old fashioned -oatmeal, uncooked) 2 c Wheat flakes

1 c Sunflower seeds

1 c Raisins

3/4 c Sesame seeds

1/2 c Walnuts, chopped

1/2 c Coconut, flaked

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Combine all the dry ingredients and mix well (do not break up the wheat flakes). Heat oil, honey and vanilla in a large saucepan. Remove from heat and mix in the other ingredients stir until everything is coated well. Spread into a 13x19-inch baking pan and bake at 350 degrees F. for 15-20 min or until golden brown. Allow to cool before removing from pan. NOTES: * A crunchy sesame seed granola -- I got this recipe from the back of a page from a green engineering pad with a circuit diagram on the other side. Where it came from before that I do not know. Yield: About 6 servings. * These are much better than any store bought granola. I eat it as desert or carry it instead of gorp when backpacking. It is very good eaten straight, with no milk. : Difficulty: easy. : Time: 15 minutes preparation, 20 minutes cooking : Precision: no need to measure. : Pat Caudill : Tektronix, Inc., Portland, Oregon, USA : patc@tekcrl.tek.com tektronix!tekcrl.tek.com!patc : Copyright (C) 1986 USENET Community Trust

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<h1>Sesame Granola</h1>
    <b>Ingredients And Procedures</b><p>
        <TABLE cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=3 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><P>1/2 c Vegetable oil <P>1/2 c Honey <P>1 t Vanilla extract <P>2 c Rolled oats (quick <P>-or old fashioned -oatmeal, uncooked) 2 c Wheat flakes <P>1 c Sunflower seeds <P>1 c Raisins <P>3/4 c Sesame seeds <P>1/2 c Walnuts, chopped <P>1/2 c Coconut, flaked <P>Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Combine all the dry ingredients and mix well (do not break up the wheat flakes). Heat oil, honey and vanilla in a large saucepan. Remove from heat and mix in the other ingredients stir until everything is coated well. Spread into a 13x19-inch baking pan and bake at 350 degrees F. for 15-20 min or until golden brown. Allow to cool before removing from pan. NOTES: * A crunchy sesame seed granola -- I got this recipe from the back of a page from a green engineering pad with a circuit diagram on the other side. Where it came from before that I do not know. Yield: About 6 servings. * These are much better than any store bought granola. I eat it as desert or carry it instead of gorp when backpacking. It is very good eaten straight, with no milk. : Difficulty: easy. : Time: 15 minutes preparation, 20 minutes cooking : Precision: no need to measure. : Pat Caudill : Tektronix, Inc., Portland, Oregon, USA : patc@tekcrl.tek.com tektronix!tekcrl.tek.com!patc : Copyright (C) 1986 USENET Community Trust <BR><BR></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>     <p>
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