Recipe - Home-Made Seitan

PART 1
6 cup Water
One half cup Soy sauce
1 Onion, cut or sliced up
2 Cloves garlic, minced
2 Bay leaves
Pepper to taste

PART 2
2 tablespoon Nutritional (goodtasting)
yeast flakes
2 tablespoon Wheat flour
One half teaspoon Onion powder
One fourth teaspoon Garlic powder

First, in your dutch oven or soup pot, put and bring to a boil part 1.

Then, and THIS IS IMPORTANT, measure your little bag of gluten flour (1 to
1One half c.), then put it in a mixing bowl (wider is better than deep). To the
flour add and mix very well Part 2.

Measure out the same amount of tasty stock and add it to the gluten flour,
mixing very quickly. It will turn into a rubbery sponge faster than you
would believe. Then oil up your hands and knead it for five minutes (HA!
and CURSES! you will think, but play along anyway. Daydream about handsome
Greek divers diving for sponges of the coast of sunny Greece. Get wicked!).

Tear the sponge into three balls (imagining what you will), and put them in
the now rollyboiling stock. Cover the pot and turn the heat to simmer. Set
your timer to 55 minutes, and pour yourself a glass of wine before cleaning
up the mess. Take a bubble bath.

When cool, put the now monster balls into appropriate plastic containers,
and cover them with the stock that's left. Freeze two (unless you will be
cooking for a crowd).

Slice for phoney Swiss steak, and simmer the slices in the tomato sauce for
a while. Grate it for spaghetti sauce. Tear it into oysterlike shreds for
stir fry, or simmer in vegetarian gravy for hot openface sandwiches. Not
bad braised in barbeque sauce and served over rice, either. Best of all,
glue shreds to your kid's face and send them out to the garage to surprise
their dad with a coffee.

(Okay, so save that one for Halloween When the kids asks "But Mom, what
am I?", just tell them they're the creeping crud, and "it creeps, all over
you!" while making clawlike gestures at them and sprinkling oatmeal in
their freshly gelled hair for a final touch).

Thanks (apologies?) to "Table For Two", a lovely little book for vegans I
just happened to find at the Cookbook Store in Toronto last week.

Posted to FATREEE list members by Michelle Dick while the list was down.

Date: Mon, 21 Oct 96 11:02:09 PDT

From: sylvia@itrc.on.ca