BRAN CAKES.
2 cups wheat bran
2 tablespoons melted butter
2 whole eggs
1 egg white
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 grain saccharine
Tie bran in a piece of cheesecloth and soak for one hour. Wash by squeezing water through and through. Change water several times. Wring dry. Dissolve saccharine in one-half teaspoon water. Beat the whole eggs. Mix the bran, beaten eggs, melted butter, and saccharine together. Whip the remaining egg white and fold in at the last. Form into small cakes, using a knife and a tablespoon. Bake on a greased baking sheet until golden brown.
This mixture will make about 25 small cakes. One cake represents 16 calories. A sample cake made by this recipe was analyzed and found to contain neither starch nor sugar.
SOYA MEAL AND BRAN MUFFINS.[4]
1 ounce (30 grams) soya meal
1 level tablespoon (15 grams) butter
1 ounce (30 c.c.) 40% cream
1 cup of washed bran (see method given elsewhere)
1 egg white
1 whole egg may be substituted for 1 egg white
1/4 teaspoon salt
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
Mix soya meal, salt and baking powder. Add to the washed bran. Add melted butter and cream. Beat egg white and fold into mixture. Add enough water to make a very thick drop batter. Bake in six well-greased muffin tins until golden brown—from fifteen to twenty-five minutes.
Total food value:
Protein, 11 grams, Fat, 27 grams.
Carbohydrate, 2 grams. Calories, 304.
One muffin = protein, 2 grams; fat, 4.5 grams.
Carbohydrate, trace. Calories, 50.
[4] Soya Bean Meal, Theodore Metcalf Co., Boston, Mass.