Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook That Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and The... (155 page)

Line a 10-inch French-style tart pan with flaky pie crust dough. Process walnuts in food processor to a fine powder. Add remaining ingredients and process until smooth. Pour into tart shell and bake at 350 degrees for about 40 minutes.

Variation: Pecan Tart

Use
1
¹
/
₃
cups
crispy pecans
in place of walnuts.

The walnut is a versatile and nutritious nut containing notable amounts of minerals, such as iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium and zinc. In earlier times, walnut "milk" made from pulverized walnuts soaked in water was served in European households that had no cow. Walnuts also contain about 60 percent fat, including a high proportion of omega-3 linolenic acid. This essential fatty acid is often deficient in the American diet, but its three double carbon bonds make it extremely susceptible to rancidity. You should therefore ideally only use walnuts that you have shelled yourself. Freshly shelled walnuts may be stored in the freezer. Fresh walnut oil, properly extracted and stored, is delicious and nutritious on salads but should never be heated. SWF

WHOLE PECAN TART

Serves 8

1 recipe
flaky pie crust

4 tablespoons butter, softened

3 eggs

½ cup Rapadura (see
Guide to Natural Sweeteners
)

2 tablespoons
piima cream
or
creme fraiche

grated rind of 1 lemon

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

1 tablespoon arrowroot

2 cups
crispy pecans

Line a 10-inch French-style tart pan with flaky pie crust dough. Cream butter with eggs and Rapadura. Beat in cultured cream, vanilla, lemon rind and arrowroot. Fold in pecan halves. Pour into tart shell and bake at 350 degrees for about 35-45 minutes.

Western medicine and science has only just begun to sound alarm signals over the fantastic increase in per capita sugar consumption, in the United States especially. Their researches and warnings are, I fear, many decades too late. . .. I am confident that Western medicine will one day admit what has been known in the Orient for years: sugar is without question the number one murderer in the history of humanity—much more lethal than opium or radioactive fallout—especially to those people who eat rice as their principal food. Sugar is the greatest evil that modern industrial civilization has visited upon countries of the Far East and Africa. . .foolish people who give or sell candy to babies will one day discover, to their horror, that they have much to answer for. Sakurazawa Nyoiti
You Are All Sanpaku

LEMON MERENGUE PIE

Serves 8

1 recipe
flaky pie crust
, lining a 9-inch pie plate and partially baked

grated rind of 2 lemons

½ cup lemon juice

¾ cup maple syrup

4 tablespoons arrowroot mixed with 6 tablespoons water

3 egg yolks

1 tablespoon butter

3 egg whites, at room temperature

pinch of sea salt

¼ cup Rapadura (see
Guide to Natural Sweeteners
)

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

Place lemon rind, lemon juice, maple syrup and arrowroot mixture in a pan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly with a whisk, until mixture thickens. Let cool slightly and beat in egg yolks and butter. Meanwhile, beat egg whites with a pinch of sea salt in a clean bowl until softly stiff. Beat in vanilla and Rapadura. Pour lemon filling into partially baked pie crust and carefully cover with beaten egg whites. Bake at 325 degrees for about 20 minutes.

In the 1940's, Dr. John Tintera rediscovered the vital importance of the endocrine system (especially the adrenal glands) in "pathological mentation"—or brain boggling. . .. Tintera published several epochal medical papers. Over and over he emphasized that improvement, alleviation, palliation or cure was "dependent upon the restoration of the normal function of the total organism." His first prescribed item of treatment was diet. Over and over again he said: "The importance of diet cannot be overemphasized." He laid out a sweeping permanent injunction against sugar in all forms and guises.

While Egas Moniz of Portugal was receiving a Nobel prize for devising the lobotomy operation for the treatment of schizophrenia, Tintera's reward was to be harassment and hounding by the pundits of organized medicine. William Dufty
Sugar Blues

APPLE PIE

Serves 8

1 recipe
flaky pie crust

8-10 tart apples, peeled, cored and cut into chunks

2 tablespoons arrowroot powder

2 tablespoons Rapadura (see
Guide to Natural Sweeteners
)

grated rind of 1 lemon

1 teaspoon cinnamon

Line a 9-inch pie pan with flaky pie crust dough, reserving remaining pastry for the top of the pie. Mix arrowroot, Rapadura, cinnamon and lemon peel. Fill pie with apples, sprinkling arrowroot mixture on each layer. Cover pie with remaining pastry and pinch edges together. Poke a few holes in the pastry and bake for about 45 minutes at 375 degrees.

The mind truly boggles when one glances over what passes for medical history. Through the centuries troubled souls have been barbecued for bewitchment, exorcised for possession, locked up for insanity, tortured for masturbatory madness, psychiatrized for psychoses, lobotomized for schizophrenia.

How many patients would have listened if the local healer had told them that the only thing ailing them was sugar blues? William Dufty
Sugar Blues

PEAR CUSTARD TART

Serves 8

1 recipe
flaky pie crust
in a 12-inch French-style tart pan, fully baked

4 ripe pears

¼ cup fresh lemon juice

¼ cup honey or maple syrup

1 quart filtered water

3 egg yolks

¼ cup maple syrup

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 cup heavy cream, not ultrapasteurized

1 cup seedless naturally sweetened blackberry jam

2 tablespoons pear liqueur

This is a complicated recipe but the results are wonderful. The pie crust, pastry cream, poached pears and jam should all be prepared in advance and well chilled. Assemble the tart just before serving.

Peel pears, cut in half lengthwise, core and immediately brush with lemon juice. Bring water to a boil with ¼ cup honey or maple syrup and vanilla. Add pears and simmer, covered, for about 10 minutes until soft. Carefully transfer to a bowl, cover with cooking liquid and chill well.

Meanwhile, combine cream, ¼ cup maple syrup and vanilla in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and allow to cool slightly. Place egg yolks in the top of a double boiler and beat for several minutes until pale. Over a low flame, add the cream mixture very gradually, stirring constantly until the mixture thickens and becomes almost too hot to touch. Remove from heat and chill well.

Place jam and pear liqueur in a saucepan, bring to a boil and cook several minutes, stirring constantly. Chill well.

To assemble, drain pear halves and pat them dry. Arrange in a ring on tart shell, cored side down. Spread pastry cream over pears and place a spoonful of jam mixture on each. Serve at once.

Man-refined sugar was introduced to Japan when the Christian missionaries arrived after the U.S. Civil War. At first, the Japanese used refined sugar in the way the Arabs and Persians had used it centuries before: as a medicine. Sugar was taxed as severely as imported patented medicines. By 1906, 45,000 acres of sugar cane were cultivated in Japan, compared with 7 million acres devoted to the cultivation of rice. Interestingly enough, in its war with Russia in 1905, the Japanese armed forces carried their own food in much the same way as the Viet Cong in the 1970's. Each man had enough dried rice to keep him going for three days. This was supplemented with salt fish, dried seaweed and pickled umeboshi plums. William Dufty
Sugar Blues

The difference between sugar addiction and narcotic addiction is largely one of degree. Small quantities of narcotics can change body-brain behavior quickly. Sugars take a little longer, from a matter of minutes in the case of a liquid, simple sugar alcohol to a matter of years in sugars of other kinds.

The enduring American fantasy of the dope pusher—imbedded in law and myth—is a slimy degenerate hanging around school playgrounds passing out free samples of expensive addictive substances to innocent kids. This fantasy devil was created at the turn of the century by and for a country of booze and sugar addicts with an enduring nostalgia for the friendly country store where so many of them got
their
habit. William Dufty
Sugar Blues

APPLE TART

Serves 8

1 recipe
flaky pie crust
in a 12-inch French-style tart pan, fully baked

8 tart apples

½ cup butter

½ cup Rapadura (see
Guide to Natural Sweeteners
)

Peel and core apples and cut into chunks. In a heavy skillet, saute apples in butter until golden. Add Rapadura and saute a few minutes more. Pour into baked tart shell. Serve with
whipped cream
.

Refined sugar is lethal when ingested by humans because it provides only that which nutritionists describe as empty or naked calories. In addition, sugar is worse than nothing because it drains and leeches the body of precious vitamins and minerals through the demands its digestion, detoxification, and elimination make upon one's entire system.

So essential is balance to our bodies that we have many ways to provide against the sudden shock of a heavy intake of sugar. Minerals, such as sodium (from salt), potassium and magnesium (from vegetables) and calcium (from the bones) are mobilized and used in chemical transmutation; neutralizing acids are produced, which attempt to return the acid-alkaline balance factor of the blood to a more normal state. Sugar taken every day produces a continuously overacid condition, and more and more minerals are required from deep in the body in the attempt to rectify the imbalance. Finally, in order to protect the blood, so much calcium is taken from the bones and teeth that decay and general weakening begin. William Dufty
Sugar Blues

ALL-RAW CHEESE CAKE

Serves 12-16

2 cups
Crispy Almonds

1 cup pitted dates

4 cups homemade cream cheese
Whey and Cream Cheese
, softened

4 eggs, separated, at room temperature

1 ¼ cups milk, preferably raw

2 tablespoons gelatin

½ cup raw honey

1 tablespoon vanilla

pinch sea salt