Geri's Honey Carrot Corn Bread for Y2K

Geri's Honey Carrot Corn Bread for Y2K

Recipe by Geri Guidetti of the Ark Institute

This recipe first appeared on Gary North's Non-Hybrid Gardening Forum that Geri hosts. She made the claim that one could just about live on this by itself if you added a little vitamin C. Well, I did a nutritional analysis on it and wouldn't you know it, she was right. (You can see the analysis at the bottom of this page.) Add a few sprouts to this and you'll have all the nutrition you need for the day. Used by permission.

Ingredients:

2 Cups shredded raw carrots
2 Cups ground yellow cornmeal
1 and 1/2 Cups milk (I have made this with powdered, reconstituted milk, too)
1 Cup honey
4 eggs slightly beaten
2 Cups white, OR 1 and 3/4 Cups whole wheat flour
1/4 Cup vegetable oil
2 Tablespoons Baking Powder
2 teaspoons or less of salt

Instructions: Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease a 10" X 13" baking pan. (You could use two, 8" square pans or two muffin pans.)
Combine shredded carrots and cornmeal in a large bowl. Heat milk in a saucepan to boiling and immediately add to carrot and cornmeal mixture. Cool to almost room temperature. Add honey, eggs, oil.
In a separate bowl, mix together white or wheat flour, baking powder and salt. Then dump it all into the carrot mixture. Pour into baking pan(s) or muffin tins. If doing muffins, fill each cup 3/4 full. They rise nicely.
Bake in 400 degree oven 20 min for muffins, 35-45 min. for cake pans. You want them nicely golden brown and springy to the touch in the center. The oven rack should be in the center, not on the top level or you may burn the tops of the muffins or bread. Honey in the recipe will make it brown easily, so you don't want to overdo the browning too long. A telephone call diverting your attention at the finish time could give you a DARK brown-- but no less delicious--finish.
The Y2K Connection? If you do a nutritional analysis of this recipe, I think you'll find you could nearly survive on it, even without beans or other legumes added. Just add a few sprouts or a salad on the side for Vitamin C and other "live food" micronutrients and you have it made.....Geri Guidetti

You'd have to eat the whole batch of the above recipe to get the following nutrition:

                                        Male   Female
                                        RDA %  RDA %
Food energy             KCal: 3602.01   124     164
Protein                  Gms: 88.9223   141     178
Total lipid (fat)        Gms: 89.3146    93     122
Carbohydrate, by diff.   Gms: 648.333   149     196
Total saturated fat      Gms: 16.4747    57      69
Ttl monounsaturated fat  Gms: 39.1936   No RDA Requirement
Ttl polyunsaturated fat  Gms: 27.3483   See the oils below
Cholesterol              Mg : 873.625   291     291
Sodium                   Mg : 6626.05   276     276
Total dietary fiber      Gms:  53.332   162     213
Vitamin A                Re : 8041.23   804    1005
Alpha Tocopherol         Mg :       0   No RDA Requirement
Ascorbic acid            Mg :  9.8925    16      16
Thiamin                  Mg : 2.22695   148     202
Riboflavin               Mg : 2.80569   165     216
Niacin                   Mg : 25.7635   136     172
Vitamin B6               Mg : 2.60931   130     163
Folacin                  Mcg: 306.141   153     170
Vitamin B12              Mcg:  3.1466   157     157
Potassium                Mg :  2963.5    85      85
Calcium                  Mg : 1384.08   173     173
Phosphorus               Mg : 2323.13   290     290
Magnesium                Mg : 705.101   201     252
Iron                     Mg : 24.4255   244     163
Zinc                     Mg : 14.9355   100     124
Pantothenic acid         Mg :  7.5838    76      76
Copper                   Mg : 1.73312    87      87
Manganese                Mg : 5.63874   161     161
Caprylic Acid (8:0)      Gms: 0.10995   No RDA Requirement
Capric acid (10:0)       Gms:  0.1572   No RDA Requirement
Lauric acid (12:0)       Gms:  0.1821   No RDA Requirement
Myristic acid (14:0)     Gms: 0.68525   No RDA Requirement
Palmitic acid (16:0)     Gms: 7.74149   No RDA Requirement
Palmitoleic acid(16:1)   Gms: 0.74477   No RDA Requirement
Stearic acid  (18:0)     Gms: 5.97553   No RDA Requirement
Oleic acid      (18:1)   Gms: 38.2512   No RDA Requirement
Linoleic acid (18:2/n6)  Gms: 23.0864   770     923
Linolenic acid(18:3/n3)  Gms: 3.88656   194     243
Gadoleic acid (20:1)     Gms:   0.056   No RDA Requirement
Docosenoic acid (22:1)   Gms:   0.006   No RDA Requirement
Phytosterols             Mg :       0   No RDA Requirement
Histidine                Gms: 2.19732   231     289
Isoleucine               Gms: 3.90299   412     516
Leucine                  Gms: 7.67374   607     761
Lysine                   Gms: 4.10472   433     543
Methionine               Gms:  1.9256   See below
Cystine                  Gms: 1.72659   See below
Methionine+Cystine       Gms: 3.65219   462     580
Phenylalanine            Gms: 4.26731   See below
Tyrosine                 Gms: 3.23535   See below
Phenylalanine+Tyrosine   Gms: 7.50266   594     744
Threonine                Gms:  3.3662   533     534
Tryptophan               Gms: 1.07233   452     567
Valine                   Gms: 4.66309   422     529
Arginine                 Gms: 4.35055   No RDA Requirement
Alanine                  Gms: 4.44647   No RDA Requirement
Aspartic acid            Gms: 6.59385   No RDA Requirement
Glutamic acid            Gms: 18.9041   No RDA Requirement
Glycine                  Gms: 3.12522   No RDA Requirement
Proline                  Gms: 1.01745   No RDA Requirement
Serine                   Gms: 4.83759   No RDA Requirement

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