Home Made Cereal Coffee substitute: Here is a very old recipe for Coffee which is made from grains and treacle. I will give two recipes here, a wheat version, and a gluten free version. The recipe which I have discovered in an ancient cooking book is not gluten free. If you wish to make a gluten free coffee substitute, then basically substitute ground soy beans and millet for the flour and the bran in this recipe
I have not tried this recipe which uses wheat grains and treacle, but I have used other grains to make a substitute for coffee in the past. Roasted soybeans worked well, I found, with brown sugar sprinkled over before roasting. Soy beans are gluten free, and so is brown sugar. I also found roasted barley to be good, also with a sprinkling of brown sugar put over before roasting, although barley is NOT gluten free, so avoid this one if you eat only gluten free food.
These options for coffee substitute were very tasty and, I think, nutritious. You can virtually use any grain or bean to make a coffee substitute. The secret is in the roasting.
This is the recipe from an un-named old recipe book – so well used that it does not even have a cover on it anymore, so I cannot tell you anything about it except that it says “Two-Burner Gas Cookers” at the top of the very first page of recipes.
Recipe For Coffee Substitute Made With Cereals and Treacle:
2 cups whole raw bran
1 cup of ground rice, or rice flour
1 cup oatmeal
1 cup ground corn groats – coarse yellow cornmeal
1 cup coarse wholemeal flour
1 cup of dark treacle
Slightly warm the treacle in a pot so that it will mix easily with the dry ingredients. Then add the grains and flours, and mix everything up together.
Spread out over a greased baking tray or a large pyrex dish. Bake in a moderate oven until the ‘coffee’ is a nice dark brown colour. Take care not to burn it, otherwise it will be spoiled.
Let cool completely, then put into an air-tight tin or jar.
To Make a Cup Of Coffee Substitute:
Use 4 tablespoons of the cereal coffee mix. Put into a small saucepan, add a pinch of sea salt and 1 cup of boiling water. Simmer this mixture for 5 minutes. Strain. This will make about 4-6 cups of caffeine free coffee. Use milk to make the coffee. the proportions are 2 tablespoons of the coffee liquid to one cup of hot milk to make one cup of coffee.
Gluten Free Recipe For Coffee Substitute:
1 cup of treacle
2 cups of ground soy beans
2 cups cornmeal groats or coarse cornmeal flour
2 cups millet flour or millet porridge mix
Follow the same method as for the Cereal Coffee above.