Make your own natural coffee using this Wheat and Molasses Coffee Substitute Recipe.
Wheat and Molasses Coffee Substitute Recipe
No parsnips in your garden for coffee substitute? Don’t fret. You can make a delicious (and delightfully low-cost) coffee
substitute from wheat and molasses . . . the very ingredients used in store-bought Postum.
Start with six cups of cracked wheat. (If you have a coffee grinder, use it to grind the wheat on a medium setting. Otherwise,
bay the wheat already cracked.) Combine the grain with a cup of milk, a half cup of molasses; and one-half teaspoon of salt . . .
grain’s since they’ll tend to burn easily.) When everything is brown, turn the oven to low and allow the wheat molasses mixture to
dry until it’s crisp.
All right: Now flip the coating out onto a flat surface, break it into pieces and put the pieces through a coffee grinder or food
mill (or take a rolling pin to the crusty wheat-molasses combination). Add one cup of ground coffee to the brown powder and store
the blend in sealed jars or cans.
Jenny Pringle of Mesa, Arizona — who’s made a good many pounds of “Wheat Java” over the years (and who sent us this recipe)
— says to “boil or perk the final product as you would any coffee . . . it’s good to the last drop”.
Read more about coffee substitutes: Make Your Own Coffee
Substitutes.
