Since I had an underwhelming response to this weeks topic : Bread

I suppose I'll have to make my own post!

What did I bake?

Baking Powder biscuits which turned out like this:

_{Well, actually browner and fluffier..except I lost the picture of the baked biscuits...this is before they were baked}

But why Baking Powder biscuits? They are so very basic.

And that's the point. Pretty much any beginner can make a baking powder biscuit. These ones are a little different though: They make use of both banana and soybeans....but probably not how you think.

Let's start at the beginning. I hate waste and I hate throwing away edible food. It just seems like such a waste of money. So, I wanted to show how to reduce waste by using some foodstuff which would typically be thrown away.

Second. This week was about bread from where you live. Now in Canada we pretty much eat all sorts of different bread types. However, back in time Bannock was a simple bread that was very common among early settlers. It was pretty basic food: Flour, Baking Powder, Salt and Oil.... typically cooked over a campfire. In honor of that I wanted to make baking powder biscuits which are a pretty close cousin to Bannock.

Typical Baking Powder recipe

2 cups of flour
1 tsp of salt
1 tbsp of baking powder
1/3 cup of butter
3/4 cup of milk

Keep the butter cold. Fold but don't overmix the dough.... and so on to make the best biscuits.

However, this is not a typical baking powder biscuit. This is a "no waste" version of it.

Butter? Nope. That requires refrigeration and can spoil. Same thing goes for milk.

So what will my recipe be?

First unusual ingredient : Banana!

Let's start with a nicely washed banana like this one.

But.... Why would I bother washing a banana? No-one washes bananas, they peel them and eat them.

Except:

Now I'll be eating the inside of the banana normally but I'll be adding the banana PEEL to the biscuit. Yes. The part that everyone throws away is going to find a use that isn't in the compost pile!

But adding raw banana peel to biscuit? Not going to happen:

First : Dry out the peel in a dehydrator.

So that this:

Turns into this:

Then put in a blender

And the final result is a dried banana peel powder.

Second unusual ingredient : Soy Bean

If you read my post yesterday you will know that I made soy cream.

@terganftp/vegan-blueberry-whipped-cream-sort

However there is waste pulp from the soybean left over.

This also goes into the dehydrator for form a dry cake.

Starts like this:

and turns into this:

and after a trip through the blender it turns into this:

Now I have banana peel powder and okara (soy pulp powder)

I'm ready to make baking powder biscuits with a twist.

My actual recipe:

1.5 cups of flour
1/3 cup of canola oil
1 tsp of salt
1 tbsp of baking powder
3/4 cup of soy milk (although water would work)

1/4 cup of Banana Peel Powder
1/4 cup of Okara (Soy Pulp Powder)

Why bother with the Banana peel and Soy pulp though?

Let's start with nutrition:

Banana peel contains: Vitamin A, B2, B6, C, and K ... which are not found in flour. In this way we are adding to the nutritional value of the biscuit.

Okara contains : Calcium, magnesium, iron and phosphorous which flour does not. In addition it contains the amino acids methionine, lysine, tryptophan, and threonine which wheat flour does not.

In short these additions make the biscuit a more complete protein and more nutritious food.

......while keeping the peel and pulp from going into the compost which is its usual fate!