PKD Recipes

Date Nut Bread

Ingredients
1 ¼ C. water
2 C. chopped dates
3 Tbsp coconut oil
1 egg yolk
½  tsp vanilla
2 Tbsp Tupelo honey
Zest and juice 1 orange
2 C. spelt flour
1 tsp aluminum free baking powder
½  tsp baking soda
⅛ tsp Himalayan pink salt
½ tsp ground cloves
1 tsp ground nutmeg
1½ C. chopped walnuts
For more sweetness ↑ honey 4 Tbsp

Preparation
Preheat oven 320º Line a 9 x 5 inch loaf pan with parchment paper.
Boil 1 ¼ cups of water. Add chopped dates and coconut oil to the water. Let stand until cool, about 30 minutes. With a fork stir egg, honey, vanilla into cooled date mixture. In a large bowl combine spelt flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, cloves, orange zest and juice.  Stir the flour mixture with the date mixture just until evenly moistened. Stir in chopped walnuts. Bake for an hour and 15 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool on wire rack 10 minutes. Remove from pan to slice. Cut into slices and serve warm. Careful this bread is a weight gainer, combining nuts and grains. This date nut bread is not a typical date nut bread. It is not very sweet, but it is complex in the best way. Perfect as an afternoon snack with a cup of hot hibiscus tea.

Lemon Egg

This is a recipe for calcium citrate or lemon egg. It helps keep our bones strong while protecting our kidneys. One person has used lemon egg to help maintain alkalinity. Her nightly urinary pH runs about 7.8.

This takes about a day to complete. Carefully fill a wide mouth jar with a clean, whole, uncracked egg. Cover the egg with freshly squeezed lemon juice. Cover the jar and place in the refrigerator. Bubbles will form on the egg shell. The egg shell will begin dissolving and finally the mixture turns white. This make take about 24 hours. Carefully remove the egg and use as normal. There should still be a soft membrane surrounding the egg but no shell as this has dissolved into the lemon juice to make calcium citrate. Remove the egg. Place a tight lid on the remaining mixture. Shake well. The mixture will keep refrigerated for 3 days. Then toss and start fresh.

Take no more than one teaspoon per day initially because it can be very powerful. Start slowly. The amount may gradually be increased. Each individual is unique. Take the mixture for two weeks, and then leave off for two weeks. Take sips slowly, testing your nightly urinary pH to be sure you do not become too alkaline. Hold off if your nightly urinary pH registers 8.5.

Using the removed egg
Slowly cook the removed egg. Allow to cool. Once cooled carefully peel away the membrane and add it to the lemon egg mixture. This eggshell membrane has been found to be useful for osteoarthritis. In 7 days participants noticed increased flexibility.

Make your own eggshell membrane
Rinse about a dozen shells well in water. Remove any egg bits that might be stuck but don’t remove membrane as these have extra nutrients. Fill a stock pot with approximately 6 cups of filtered water and bring to a boil. Carefully put your eggshells into water. Let cook for 10 minutes. Drain shells. Spread the shells on glass or stainless steel baking sheet and let dry overnight. In the morning, put in a 200º oven for about 10 minutes or in a dehydrator. Once completed, put a few shells into a blender and run until they are pulverized into a granular form. Continue until all of your shells are powder. Store in a tightly sealed Mason jar in the cupboard away from heat or moisture.

Louise’s lemon egg

Try taking the shells of 2 cooked eggs, carefully peeling away all the white lining from the inside of the shells (previously soaking the eggs in warm water before cooking). Put the shells in a glass jar. Squeeze the juice from 1 to 1 ½ lemons over the egg shells. Crush the mixture with a fork into as many small pieces as possible increasing the surface area for the lemon reaction. After 24 hours strain and sip.

Another Lemon egg Recipe
Wash empty cooked eggshells in warm water until all the egg white is removed. Do not remove the membrane if you have arthritis or joint pains. The membrane contains nutrients to help this. Allow the washed shell to air dry. Grind the shells in a food processor.
Ingredients
½ teaspoon of powdered egg shell (approximately 400 mg of calcium)
½ a lemon juiced
Preparation
Put the powdered egg shell in a clean glass jar, add the freshly squeezed lemon juice. Leave at room temperature for 6 hours but no longer than 12 hours. Take a spoonful. Toss what you do not use and mix again the following day. Take only for two weeks then leave off for two weeks.

Here is a clinical trial using Natural Eggshell Membrane  NEM to help osteoarthritis.

Bread Machine Banana Bread

Ingredients
Mash 2 very ripe bananas
2 egg yolks or
2 Tbsp egg replacer
2 Tbsp almond yogurt
¼ C. almond milk with lemon juice
1 Tbsp olive oil or
1 Tbsp coconut oil
½ C. Tupelo honey
2 C. sifted spelt flour
1 tsp Himalayan pink crystal salt
2 tsp Rumford (non aluminum) baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
½ C. chopped almonds

Preparation
Coat the bread machine bread pan with the oil. Add the ripe bananas, egg and honey to the bread machine. Select the dough setting and press start. Let it run until the bananas are well mixed. Add the dry ingredients: spelt flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Run the bread machine on the dough cycle. Push the flour down the sides of the bread machine. Let it rest for about twenty minutes. Mix again with the dough cycle for five minutes. Set it to the bake cycle and allow it to bake for about 35 – 40 minutes. Test with a toothpick or knife that it is done in the center. If you cook it in the bread machine for the full hour, the ends and the bottom can become over baked and work well as biscotti. After it has rested inside the bread machine for another twenty minutes with the baking cycle turned off; turn it upside down on a rack, let it cool, slice with a serrated knife, and enjoy. One can add a half a cup of chopped almonds to the bread during the dough cycle if you wish. The addition of nuts can cause a weight gain by combining a protein [almonds] with a grain [spelt]. I made this bread to assist me with weight gain following surgery.

In a traditional oven
Heat oven to 350º[in Europe this would be a moderate oven or 180º] Bake for about an hour and 30 minutes.

Banana Cake

If using buttermilk + egg this is not vegan.
Ingredients
1 ½ C. banana (5 bananas)
¼ C. almond milk with lemon juice
or cultured buttermilk
1 egg yolk
½ C. tupelo honey
3 C. spelt flour
¼ tsp Himalayan pink crystal salt
1 tsp aluminum free baking powder
1 tsp baking soda

Preparation
Place the ripe banana, almond milk, egg yolk, and honey in a food processor. Add spelt flour, tupelo honey continue mixing. While the processor is going, add the salt, baking powder, and baking soda. Continue until all is well incorporated.
Preheat the oven to 350º
Line a bundt pan with parchment paper or spray with oil. Bake in the preheated oven for 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.

Any left over cake can be cut into strips and baked in the oven to dry like biscotti.

Apple Cake Bread Machine

Ingredients Apple Mixture
2 Apples Golden Delicious variety.
Leave the skin on, use a knife or an apple slicer or if you have one of those delightful machines that turns, peels cores and slices the apple, use this to create a delightful apple pattern across the top.
2 tsp cinnamon
1½ lemons juiced
½ tsp Himalayan pink crystal salt
⅓ C. tupelo honey
1 egg yolk or
Egg substitute
3 Tbsp olive oil
1 tsp vanilla

Ingredients Cake
2 C. white Spelt Flour
½ tsp cinnamon
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp Rumford® no aluminum baking powder
½ C. chopped soaked roasted almonds
¼ C. almond milk

Bread Machine Preparation
In a large bowl, toss the chopped apples with the cinnamon and squeezed lemon juice. Add the egg yolk, honey, vanilla, and olive oil. Mix with a spoon. Allow it to rest for about ten minutes to make its own juices. Sift the dry ingredients over the apple mixture. Mix by hand to form a batter consistency. Add the chopped almonds. Lightly oil the tin of the bread machine. Set on the bake cycle for about an hour. Turn it upside down on a towel. If you leave the chunks of apples large, its taste resembles a pie. I didn’t even allow it to cool or set before tasting it.

Conventional Oven
Pour ½ apples and batter into a large cake pan that has been lined with parchment paper to prevent it from sticking. Decoratively fan the remaining apples across the top in a swirling pattern. Bake at 375º oven until golden about 30 minutes.