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One of the practical disadvantages of home-made bars is that they tend to disintegrate into a pile of sticky crumbs if subject to the abuse of a saddlebag, jersey pocket etc. Manufactured bars use various dubious additives for coherence, but you can get round this using agar flakes, an organic gelatine substitute derived from algae. The main supermarkets now stock this on the baking ingredients shelves.

Chris .Wish I had seen this before Mrs.Go had gone shopping...I am laid up with dreaded Gout..4 weeks Nearly ! Ouch.

ChrisButch wrote:One of the practical disadvantages of home-made bars is that they tend to disintegrate into a pile of sticky crumbs if subject to the abuse of a saddlebag, jersey pocket etc. Manufactured bars use various dubious additives for coherence, but you can get round this using agar flakes, an organic gelatine substitute derived from algae. The main supermarkets now stock this on the baking ingredients shelves.

Or just include enough of the sticky ingredients (dates,prunes etc) and a bit of baking so that they hold together.

Mrs R2's bars hold up very well.

LollyKat wrote:Mrs R2's bars hold up very well.

You get a bit more binder and "natural sugar" by adding finely chopped apple to this sort of recipe (thanks to a certain Dr. E. Pooley for that idea).

Pete.