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Recipe for Birchermüesli

Original recipe by Dr. Bircher

Ingredients for 4 persons:

• 4 tablespoons oat flakes
• 8 tablespoons water
• 4 tablespoons sweet evaporated milk or cream
• Honey or sugar according to your own taste (use as less sugar as possible)
• Juice of 2 lemons
• 8 apples

variations:

• You may use plain yogurt instead of water and evaporated milk. You may also add cream, half and half or milk according to your own taste.
• Take any kind of berries, oranges or other fruits instead of or in addition to the apples.
• You may add 2 to 3 tablespoons grind almonds and or hazelnuts.

Preparation:

1. Put oat flakes, water, sweet evaporated milk and juice of lemon in a bowl.
2. Wash apples, cut in pieces, remove core (do not remove skin !)
3. Grind apples into the bowl and mix well.
4. Add sugar and honey according to your own taste and mix well again.
5. Serve immediately.

Some information about the history of Birchermüesli:

" Birchermüesli" was invented by Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner (1867-1939), a pioneer of the biological health medicine and Vollwertkost?.

Dr. Bircher was active in Zürich and he had a great impact on our feeding habits. Around 1900, he suggested that cereals, fruits and vegetables are more valuable food than meat, but his colleagues did not agree with his points of view. But even if the public opinion did not follow his ideas, he had more faith in his own experiences than the current doctrine.

While at that time meat was regarded as the best suited and most valuable food for humans, vegetables and fruits were considered food of the poor people. But Dr. Bircher continued to believe in what he called "food of the sunlight", meals based on biological, natural ingredients. He created a recipe which is known today worldwide as "Birchmüesli". He was also convinced that health care should be much more than just medical treatments. In 1897, Dr. Bircher founded a sanatory in Zürich, where he practiced a ganzheitliche? therapy which included Vollwertkost?, a daily walk, bathing and sunbathing. He even set up exercise equipment, so we can see his sanatory as a kind of a fore runner of the gym and fitness centers as we know them today.

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