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In the Name of Allah, Master Fard Muhammad, To Whom Praise is Due Forever, Our Most Beneficent, and Merciful Saviour
*You Can Read HOW TO EAT TO LIVE, BOOK TWO In Its Entirety Here.*
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INGREDIENTS 1 1/2 c Honey
1 c fresh homemade butter
1 t vanilla extract
1 egg
2 c whole-wheat flour
1 t baking soda
1 bag milk chocolate chips
1/4 t Cinnamon
1/4 t Nutmeg
DIRECTIONS
Heat oven to 375° F.
In a large bowl stir honey, butter, vanilla and egg until well blended.
In a separate bowl, mix flour, baking soda, cinnamon and nutmeg. Add to honey/butter mix
Stir in chocolate chips.
On ungreased cookie sheet, drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls about two inches apart.
Bake about ten minutes or until light brown (centers will be soft). Cool slightly, remove from cookie sheets.
Eat good food which has been prescribed in this book. Do not eat over one meal a day.
Dry beans (navy beans) and whole bread are good for us. We do not have to go around looking for all kinds of foods. Just one common kind will do. Give the body some time to rest.
FASTING is a great act upon true Believers of the true religion of God (Islam). This also helps prolong our lives.
It is prescribed for us in the Law of the religion of Islam (Holy Qur-an). All Muslims who respect fasting should take the fast of Ramadan. We are not taking the month of Ramadan as prescribed in the Holy Qur-an. We take the Christians’ month (December, the twelfth month), instead of the ninth month.
This month I prescribe for you to fast (the twelfth month of the Christian year) for the purpose of getting you away from the false teaching of the Jesus’ Birth on the 25th of December. God Has Taught Me that he was born between the first and the second week of September and not December.
This day, (the 25th of December) He Taught Me was the birth date of that demon Nimrod, who was born in the Seventeenth century of Moses’ era before the birth of Jesus.
He was so wicked that the Scholars and Scientists of Scripture of the Prophets do not like to teach you of this history of Nimrod. And, if it was the birthdate of that righteous Prophet Jesus, you most certainly in your celebration of the 25th of December have not been showing a clean and holy celebration of a righteous person with your drunkenness and your gambling. Your everything but right is committed on the 25th day of December in celebrating the birth of a righteous man. But, you are not doing so for righteousness, you are celebrating the birth date of an evil person and the white Christians will send you all the whiskey and beer and wine and swine that you want to eat and drink on that day.
RAMADAN is the ninth month of the Arab year (which is also twelve months and not nine months). The Holy Qur-an teaches that twelve months have always been a year with God. We are not able to satisfy the astronomists if we do not have a twelve month year, for it takes the earth 12 months to make its complete circuit around the sun and this is why we call it one year (after its completion of this circuit made by the earth at an average distance of 93 million miles).
Ramadan, the Holy Qur-an teaches us, is the month that the Holy Qur-an was revealed to Muhammad. And they worship the month by abstaining from eating and drinking during the day time from sun up to sun down or before the sun rises until after she sets in the Western skies.
Then, after dark, we can eat and drink until the sun rises again the next day. The significances of this Arabic fasting in Ramadan is that the spiritual darkness of Yakub’s made man (the white race); eating and drinking, sport and play was the order of the white world, until the day break of Truth coming in the first of the seven thousand years after the six thousand years of spiritual darkness and evil of the white man’s world.
WE ARE living now in the bright spiritual world of Allah, the Great Mahdi in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom Praise is due forever, therefore we are not the children of darkness, but the children of light and truth.
Actually, Divinely, there is no fast set for the children of the light of God and their fasting ceases. But, until we have accomplished our work of perfection of self and separation of us from the spiritual darkness of Yakub’s made man and teachings, we fast to get out of it and take a month that we used to worship as being the month in which the birth of Jesus came about.
There is no such thing that we should worship any white people’s holidays. All that they worship are their days and not the slaves (the Black peoples) days.
There is not one that we should worship. The past Thanksgiving Day that you were celebrating – what [do] you have to thank God and man for that last Thursday of November? Surely you should thank God for allowing you to live to see that day, but this was the man’s day (Yakub’s made man).
The Black Man should not take any part in any white people’s holidays not even to Sunday. These are not our days. Please remember this.
I WILL take you further into this knowledge if you write me, as space here in our book is limited.
The Muslims, as I foresaid, do not eat nor drink from before sunrise until after she (the sun) has set. If you take it (the fast of Ramadan) with them, you are doing the right thing, until this evil world has vanished.
BECAUSE OF the fascination of food to the eye, the smell of food, and the imaginary taste of food, we follow our eyes and our tastes to our graves, by eating the wrong food too often.
*You Can Read HOW TO EAT TO LIVE, BOOK TWO In Its Entirety Here.*
Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim In the Most Holy and Righteous Name ofAllah, Master Fard Muhammad, The Beneficent, The Most Merciful
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HOW TO EAT TO LIVE, BOOK TWO page 35
“YOUR BEST vegetables are: CAULIFLOWER, cabbages (not the green cabbages)… Some other vegetables we eat are as follows: brussels sprouts, asparagus, eggplant, okra, squash and rhubarb.”
Cauliflower
Garlic
Onion
Butter
Salt
Italian Seasonings
DIRECTIONS
* Chop the florets of a head of cauliflower (however much you need) and wash prior to preparing, giving it enough time to dry completely. (Or you can just break them off by hand like I do 😉 )
**When you are ready to cook:
* Preheat oven to 375°
* Peel garlic cloves (as many as you want) and pierce with a fork
* Chop onion (however much you need and whatever size you want)
* Put cauliflower, garlic, onion, 2 tbsp. melted butter, a few shakes of salt and Italian Seasonings in an airtight container and mix well. (You can even use a Ziploc bag. 🙂 )
* Spread ingredients out on a baking sheet, place on top rack in oven and bake for about 15-20 minutes.
* Lower heat to 350° and bake another 20 minutes.
This recipe was all right but I prefer my vegetables soft and buttery like this.
But everybody has different tastes. So I’m going to leave it here. 🙂
My son, Hakim, finally convinced me to allow him to do a science experiment with some heavy whipping cream I had in the fridge. I wanted to make ice cream, but he wanted to make butter.
I finally acquiesced, and I’m beginning to think that he may have stumbled upon one of the best ideas he’s ever had. (And he’s had some good ones.)
I let him do all the work. The first time, he only used 4 oz. of cream; and it seemed like I got about 4 oz. (one stick) worth of butter!
The next time (the time of the butter shown in the picture), he used two cups. It yielded about a cup of buttermilk. So, if you subtract that from the starting amount, that means he made about a cup (two sticks) of butter. But it seems like much more because you don’t need to use as much as you would store manufactured butter.
In short, 8 oz. of cream will yield 8 oz. or two STICKS of Butter.
I tasted some of my leftover store bought butter and some of his homemade butter and the difference was astonishing! His butter had twice as much flavor and was creamier and smoother.
Suffice it to say, we will be making our own butter from now on….
And it is so easy to make! All you have to do is pour some Heavy Whipping Cream into a glass jar with a lid and shake it up. That’s it!
The length of time depends on how much cream you use. But it didn’t take nearly as long as I had remembered. (I did it once when I was little). First, the cream will get really thick and if you want to make whip cream, you can just sweeten it and eat it like that. But to make butter, you have to keep shaking it and eventually the liquid will separate from the solid and you will be left with fresh, homemade butter!!! Also, if you don’t want to do so much shaking, you can let it sit for about 15-20 minutes after it gets to the whipped cream state and then come back and shake it up. It will turn into butter right away.
**UPDATE**
Sisters, yesterday I used the butter in my cooking and I melted it before I used it…. Why was it creamy yellow and milky? It was nothinglike the butter I used to buy from the store! The butter I used to buy from the store used to separate into two liquids when I melted it. THEY ADD WATER TO STORE-BOUGHT BUTTER!! I feel like such a fool for buying that crap all of my life. And it is ridiculously easy to just make your own. But if you knew better you do better….
“If you must have some type of fat take the fat from milk (butter).” – HOW TO EAT TO LIVE
Fasting is a greater cure of our ills – both mentally and physically – than all of the drugs of the earth combined into one bottle or into a billion bottles. ALLAH (God) in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, has taught me that fasting and the right kind of food are the cures to our ills. He has told me there is no cure in drugs and medicine. And this, the world is now learning. We can take medicine all of our lives until it kills us, but we are still ailing with the same old diseases.
The bad food and drinks we are putting into our bodies keep us a victim to illness. There are not too many nice doctors who will tell you that drugs are not good for you, because they paid for their learning and want to keep practicing.
But “How To Eat To Live” is what we want to know, and have wanted to know all of our lives. Every man or woman wants to know how he (or she) can prolong his (or her) life.
Nature teaches us to stay here in this life as long as we can. Nature has never taught anyone that he should leave this life and find another one somewhere else, because we have only one life. If this life is destroyed, we would have a hard time trying to get more life; it is impossible. So, try to keep this life you have as long as possible. Go when you cannot stay here any longer.
ALLAH TAUGHT ME that one meal a day would keep us here for a long time; we would live over 100 years. And eating one meal every two days would lengthen our lives just that much longer. He told me you would never be sick, eating one meal every three days. The fact that fasting is the cure to 90 per cent of our ills is known by the medical scientists. But, they do not teach you that.
They know that tobacco, hard whiskey and alcohol are not good for you and will shorten your life and kill you. But most of them are too weak themselves to stop drinking or smoking or chewing tobacco. So they do not teach you that tobacco and alcoholic drinks – made into what is known as whiskey, beer, and wine – are not good for you, although they know it to be true.
They will say, “Yes, it is good for you if you are temperate.” But, they know that once you get started on that stuff, it is such an enemy that it just takes you into its power, and it is almost like trying to break an iron chain to get away from the habit. So do not use tobacco in any form and you will live a few years longer.
Fast once a month for three days or four days – or for whatever length of time you are able to go without food without harming yourself – and you will feel good. Did you not know that if you would stop eating pig and the food that you should not eat; stop eating three and four times a day and stop drinking whiskey, beer and wine, you would save much in the way of money?
In prolonging your life by abstaining from the pig, alcoholic drinks and tobacco, you, also, will be adding money to your savings of hundreds and thousands of dollars. You will be depriving those pig raisers and tobacco growers and alcoholic distilleries of millions of dollars that they rob you of which hasten you to your grave.
YOU COULD STOP the tobacco growers from growing that stinking weed, by turning away from the use of it. And you could stop the pig raising by not eating the stinking hog. These things are death to your children in their early ages. And, they even affect the reproductive organs of people in the early ages, as well as affect the heart, the lungs, and your sharpness in thinking. And, after all of this, you die a victim of poison and commercialization. Learn to eat to live.
Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim In the Name of Master Fard Muhammad,
The Beneficent, The Most Merciful
To Whom All Holy Thanks and Praise is Due Forever
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BROILED SALMON WITH LEMON AND ITALIAN SEASONING
As-Salaamu ‘Alaikum Beloved and Blessed, Beautiful Black Sisters!
One of my favorite dishes to make is Broiled Salmon. It is simple and delicious; healthy and nutritious. Our Beloved Messenger (May the Peace and the Blessings of Allah Forever Be Upon Him) taught us in HOW TO EAT TO LIVE, BOOK TWO about: “FISH – we can eat fish. Fish is raised under a different atmosphere. Fish is from a different world of life. Fish is born and fish lives, in the water of life. Fish is good for us.” However, as with anything we eat, we have to be careful that we eat the right kinds of fish. Our Beloved Messenger (PBUH) taught us that, “Allah forbids us to eat a fish weighing over 50 pounds (or even weighing 50 pounds.)” Such as TUNA.
*You Can Read HOW TO EAT TO LIVE, BOOK TWO In Its Entirety Here.*
Under the Divine Leadership of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), The Nation of Islam had a very lucrative business importing fish from Peru and selling it at a very reasonable price among the so-called American Negroes, who were, as they are today, suffering from extreme poverty. The chosen fish was “Whiting H & G”
Whiting is a very inexpensive but healthy fish for us to eat. I usually bake it with lemon and a little salt and pepper.
But it has bones and it is hard for my son to eat, so he prefers Salmon.
It is also very healthy for us to eat, although not quite as inexpensive. When choosing Salmon for your family, be sure to choose “Wild Caught” as opposed to “Farmed.” Fish farms are full of filth and the fish are not as clean as the fish that are caught in their natural environment. Whenever you eat some type of living thing, whether it is cow, chicken, lamb or fish, you want to make sure it lived as healthy a life as possible. The saying is true, that “You are what you eat.” So we want to make sure we don’t eat fish or anything that lived off of filth (scavengers).
Broiled Salmon is so easy to make and cooks in five minutes!
DIRECTIONS
Pre-heat oven on “Broil”. Rinse Salmon with cool water (both sides). Lightly squeeze fresh lemon juice over the fillets. Sprinkle with salt and Italian Seasoning. Flip over and repeat. Top with thinly sliced garlic. Broil about five-ten minutes (depending on the thickness).
Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim In the Most Holy and Righteous Name of Allah, Master Fard Muhammad The Beneficent, The Most Merciful Saviour and Deliverer To We, The Lost and Now Found Members of the Aboriginal Black Nation of The Planet Earth
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As-Salaamu ‘Alaikum Beloved and Beautiful Sisters,
I LOVE EGGS! They are probably the easiest and most versatile food on our planet. Our Beloved Messenger (Peace Be Upon Him) taught us in HOW TO EAT TO LIVE, BOOK TWO (Page 97) that “Eggs are all right to eat…But do not try to eat all that the hens lay at one time. (smile).”
He taught us that, “No meat is good for you,” so we should be vegetarians or pescatarians. However, going vegan is exceeding the limits. As I already mentioned, The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) taught us eggs are all right. He also repeatedly taught us that Milk Is Our First Food and it is One of The Best Foods We Can Eat.
He also taught us that we can eat butter and cheese. So, since The Honorable Elijah Muhammad (May the Peace and the Blessings of Allah Forever Be Upon Him) was Taught By THE ALL-KNOWING, ALL-WISE, ALL-POWERFUL LORD OF THE WORLDS, I do not agree with anyone (who was probably taught by the devil Caucasians, who were put here to cut short our lives) on becoming vegan.
Many of you Muslims, are claiming that the food is worse now than it was when Our Beloved Messenger (PBUH) was alive. But my dear Sisters, do you not know that Our Beloved Messenger (PBUH) Was Taught the Knowledge, Wisdom and Understanding that is going to carry us into the Hereafter??? Do you think that he did not know all that is to come?? He taught us that the devil tampers with everything, so do the best you can and eat one meal a day.
He also taught us to eat simple foods and if you follow The Divine Supreme Wisdom Teachings of HOW TO EAT TO LIVE, you will find that there are only a few foods that you can eat to live. However, you can vary your preparation of these foods and eat happily and healthily.
Our diets should consist primarily of milk, bread and beans. We can also eat fruits and vegetables. Our Beloved Messenger (PBUH) also taught us that we can “eat some sweets, but do not make a meal of sweets and eat them every day.” He taught us to “leave those old, white potatoes alone” and that if we want to live a long time, we should not eat spaghetti and macaroni. However, he said we can eat rice, but since it is a very starchy food, we should only eat it in moderation. He also gave specific instructions on how to cook rice.
But this is about eggs. I have found several different ways to jazz up my vegetable dishes just by adding eggs. Quiche is delicious, but requires a little more work if you make your crust from scratch. So, I usually just make something called a frittata. It is like a casserole but just with eggs, vegetables and cheese. And I don’t even make that too often. It’s easier to just make what my son and I call “Eggstables.” I generally, just roast some vegetables (it doesn’t matter what kind) like I normally do, with garlic, onion, butter and seasonings. But instead of just eating them, I scramble three to five eggs with parmesan cheese (I like fresh cheese for grating myself because it doesn’t have the preservatives) and add a little milk and scramble them all together. Eggs always come out lighter and fluffier when you add milk. I season it the way I like it and it tastes really good, not to mention how super simple it is to make. Hakim eats it pretty much every day with Bean Soup and Wheat Toast with Butter and Cream Cheese.
Try it and see for yourself!
*Here is an easy recipe with eggs and zucchini that doesn’t even require you to pre-cook the vegetables.
Frittatas are the egg dish that I absolutely love and have eaten every day for weeks. It is very similar to the Eggstables, but instead of frying the eggs with the vegetables on the stove top, you cook the vegetables and scramble the eggs separately in a bowl with freshly grated Parmesan cheese (you can use any cheese but Parmesan is my fave), a little cream or milk and seasonings then add the eggs to the roasted vegetables and bake for about twenty more minutes. And OMG! So Good! Another little addition I like to add are capers! They take the frittata over the top!
According to How To Eat To Live:
“YOUR BEST vegetables are: cauliflower, cabbages (not the green cabbages)… Some other vegetables we eat are as follows: Brussels sprouts, asparagus, eggplant, okra, squash and rhubarb.”
Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim In the Most Holy and Righteous Name of Allah
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(Don’t eat cereals, peanut butter, nuts nor dried fruit nor canned beans. Processed cereals and nuts are hard on the digestive system and you should eat FRESH fruit and dry beans.)
As-Salaamu ‘Alaikum Beloved and Beautiful Sisters!
Dear Sisters, as the woman of the house, we are responsible for doing the shopping for our family’s needs. We must make wise decisions and avoid impulse shopping and purchasing unhealthy and toxic foods and products.
The best way to shop, when visiting the supermarket is “The U.” If you notice, most grocery stores are arranged according to the diagram above. Fresh fruits and vegetables, dairy, breads and fish (which should be the basis of our diet) are located on the perimeter. Avoid the meat section as The Honourable Elijah Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) taught us in How To Eat To Live, that, “No Meat Is Good For You.” But, of course, they’re going to offer it to you because they want to commercialize on that which will kill you. So, use wisdom and shun the meat section.
The processed, packaged, full of preservatives, artificial colors and artificial flavors (slow-death), UNHEALTHY foods are located down the aisles in the center of the store. The only items we should look for on these aisles are such foods as flour and beans.
If you are in the habit of going down every aisle just picking out things that suit your fancy, stop it!! This is impulse buying and it is a wasteful and prodigal practice.
Always make a list.
And, stick to the items on your list. Our Beloved Messenger (May the Peace and the Blessings of Allah forever be upon him) taught us that, “Simple foods are the best”.
You do not need to be trying out every new food the devil manufactures. Lest you find yourself trying out a new coffin. Simplify your diet so that you can live a long time in good health and with a youthful and beautiful appearance.
This way your selection of foods will not vary too much and you will become very familiar with the ingredients, location and prices of the foods you purchase. You will find your grocery shopping to be easy, familiar, cost effective and time efficient, going down the aisles very rarely, with most of your purchases being made in “The U”.
*You Can Read HOW TO EAT TO LIVE, BOOK TWO In Its Entirety Here.*
“YOUR BEST vegetables are: cauliflower, cabbages (not the green cabbages)… Some other vegetables we eat are as follows: brussels sprouts, asparagus, EGGPLANT, okra, squash and rhubarb.”
*You Can Read HOW TO EAT TO LIVE, BOOK TWO In Its Entirety Here.*
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As-Salaamu ‘Alaikum Beautiful and Beloved Black Sisters!
Although Eggplant is a dish that is not traditionally served in Black households, it is VERY delicious and also good for our health. There are many recipes for this exotic fruit that can be incorporated into our diets without too much inconvenience.
Now, you may have never cooked with Eggplant and may be a little intimidated when it comes to selecting an eggplant. I’ve bought them on several occasions and had to throw them away because they were discolored when I brought them home and cut into them. However, I’ve read that a little discoloration is okay. They are like apples.
But now, that I’ve read up on how to select an Eggplant, I shouldn’t have that problem anymore, In Sha Allah (If It Is The Will Of Allah). Now, when I researched how to select an Eggplant I was met with conflicting reports. However, I was fortunate enough to read the “rebuttals” to the claims first and then I got to the claim that like many plants, “eggplants can be male or female.” However, according to science, this is not true, because eggplants self-pollinate, meaning that they have both MALE and FEMALE parts.
However, I continued my research and happened across a cook who was writing from experience and I rely more on and expert who speaks from experience than on one who speaks from experiments.
This is what she had to say. When choosing an eggplant, the males generally have fewer seeds than the females, and since the seeds give the eggplant a bitter taste, you want to choose a male.
Here is how you can tell the difference. Look at the bottom of the Eggplant. Female eggplants generally have wider, deep “navels” (pictured on the right) while males have round, smaller and shallower “navels”
You also want to look for Eggplants that have shiny, taut skin. If the skin is dull, it may be too ripe and will likely have developed more seeds.
This recipe is so simple and sounds delicious. I think I might try it covered in Parmesan cheese! 😉
Baked Eggplant: Melanzane al Forno
INGREDIENTS
3 medium eggplants, to yield about 3 pounds, stem removed, sliced lengthwise into 1/2-inch slices
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
4 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
1 bunch Italian parsley, finely chopped to yield 1/4 cup
DIRECTIONS
Preheat the oven to 500 degrees F.Place eggplant slices in a single layer on a lightly oiled baking sheet. Brush each slice with the olive oil. Stud each slice of eggplant with the sliced garlic, embedding the garlic as much as possible into the flesh of the eggplant. Season with salt and pepper and bake 20 to 25 minutes, until soft and golden brown. Remove from oven and allow to cool. When cool, sprinkle with parsley and serve.
*You Can Read How to Eat to Live, Book Two In Its Entirety Here.*
As-Salaamu ‘Alaikum Beloved Sisters!
Our Beloved Messenger (Peace Be Upon Him) taught us that milk is our first food; bread is next. Along with Milk and Bean Soup, pure Whole-Wheat Bread is one of the three best foods we can eat. But most breads found in the markets today are full of chemicals, salt, preservatives and artificial flavors (slow death) added. All of which are harmful to our health.
Baking bread is one of the simplest and healthiest things you can do for your family. It is also very therapeutic. The time you devote to bread-making relaxes your mind, clears your thoughts, allows you to think and plan and is an all-around stress-reliever. The process of kneading the dough is not only soothing to your muscles, but also allows you to constructively release pent-up frustration.
Setting aside time every week to bake bread is one of the most rewarding things you can do. It takes quite a bit of time from start to finish, but it is not like you cannot do other things while you are in the process of making bread. I do laundry, clean up, write, sometimes I even make a short trip to the store while I’m waiting for my dough to rise! And the end result is a pair of healthy and nutritious (not to mention delicious!) loaves of 100% Pure Whole-Wheat Bread for you and your family to enjoy.
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I got my recipe off the Gold Medal Flour Whole Wheat package, but their recipe calls for white flour also. Our Beloved Messenger (PBUH) taught us that “pure wheat makes the best bread,” so I only use wheat flour. Another difference is that that recipe only instructs you to let the dough rise twice, but another M.G.T. taught me to let the dough rise three times and the difference in the final product is remarkable. Just by letting the dough rise one more time, the bread comes out MUCH lighter.
I also don’t use salt.
Because of all of the detrimental ingredients found in most store-bought mass-produced breads, The Nation of Islam had its own line of bread called “EAT” Bread, which was made using The Nation of Islam Flour and was sold in The Nation of Islam’s “YOUR SUPERMARKETS” and bakeries across the country.
Our Beloved Messenger, The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad (PBUH) also taught us that we should bake this bread two or three times if we would take the time to do so. Our Saviour, Master Fard Muhammad, taught him that bread is better for you if you bake it two or three times. I have not yet mastered this technique, but In sha Allah (If it is the Will of Allah), I will soon.
An older Sister told me after you have baked the bead the first time you just put it back in your bowl and add milk. I tried it and it seemed ruined. I could not see myself baking it again. In retrospect, I think I should have tried.
“YOU MUST REMEMBER when you are eating bread, when it gets into your stomach it rises again, and, if it is not prepared right and baked right outside, before entering our stomach, it has the tendency to buckle in the stomach and intestines. But, when it is baked thoroughly done, it does not do a lot of rising after it gets into our stomach.
“Bake your bread thoroughly done!! I would to my Allah, we could eat bread that has been baked two or three times.” (HOW TO EAT TO LIVE)
Bread is one of the easiest digestible foods we can eat, but we must be sure that it—- is prepared properly. It should be cooked and browned through and through. And we should not make our loaves too thick. I have never had a problem with this recipe being too thick or not being cooked thoroughly. It always comes out perfect.
Also, Our Beloved Messenger (PBUH) taught us that we should NEVER eat fresh baked bread! (i.e. the same day it is cooked). We should wait at least 24 hours before we eat it and give it time to dry out. That way it won’t do too much rising in our stomachs.
Also, be sure to make sure the water temperature is right for the yeast. If it is too hot, you will kill the yeast and your dough won’t rise. It has to be 100-115 degrees F. That is just a little bit too hot for your hands to stand. You might be able to keep your hands in the water for a couple seconds, but then it will be too hot. Fortunately, my sink water gets to just the right temperature so I don’t have to use a thermometer, but I think I may just be lucky. You can estimate or invest in a thermometer, whichever you feel comfortable doing.
1/2 cup freshly-made homemade butter + about 2 tablespoons
2 1/2 cups very hot water (almost boiling)
2 packages(2 1/4 teaspoons) active dry yeast
1/4 cup water 100-115 degrees F
2 1/2 cups very hot water
DIRECTIONS
1. In a small bowl, add 1/4 cup 100-115 degree water to yeast. Mix well and set aside.
2. Mix honey and butter with 2 1/2 cups very hot water. Stir until honey and butter are dissolved and let cool (about ten minutes).
(*Now is a good time to clean your dirty dishes, while you wait for the honey/butter/hot water mixture to cool. It is better to clean up as you go, otherwise your kitchen will be a mess when you’re finished*)
3. Mix or stir in 3 cups of whole-wheat flour, one-half cup at a time. Mix well.
4. Add yeast. (*It should have foamed up a little). Mix well.
5. Add more flour until dough begins to pull away from the sides of the bowl. (*This part is where your instinct comes in. As the dough thickens, it will become more and more difficult to mix. Eventually, you will get to the point where you’re just sprinkling flour onto the parts that still look “wet” and sticky, until the outside of the ball of dough is completely “dry”. I like to roll it around the bowl a bit, just to make sure no parts are sticking.)
6. Sprinkle flour onto your clean kneading surface. (Someone told me she kneads her dough in a big bowl, so if you don’t have space to knead on a surface, you can try doing that also.)
7. Empty dough from bowl onto the kneading surface. Generously cover your hands with flour and knead the dough 150 times.
8. Transfer kneaded dough into a lightly buttered bowl and cover with a towel. Set aside until dough rises to twice its size. (*It can take anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour and a half for your dough to rise. So, you have plenty of time to clean up and do other household tasks. Also, a warm kitchen helps the dough to rise so you might want to turn on your oven.)
9. When the dough has risen, punch it down in the middle (*Yes, like it said something about your Mama 🙂 ) This will deflate it. Then knead it again 150 times and set aside to rise again.
10. When the dough has risen again, punch it down, knead it and divide it in half.
11. Using a rolling pin, roll one half until it is 18 inches long.
12. Fold it up about one inch from the bottom of the dough, pressing down to remove any bubbles, and continue to “roll up” the dough, tucking in the sides.
13. Repeat with other half.
14. Place each half in a lightly buttered bread pan, cover and set aside to rise again.
15. After dough has doubled in size, bake at 375 degrees F for 30 minutes.
16. Reduce temperature to 350 degrees F and bake an additional 15 minutes.
17. Remove bread from bread pans and let cool one hour.
That’s it!You’ve just made 100 per cent All Natural Honey Whole-Wheat Bread!
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