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How to Make Orange Pound CakeSERVINGS: 6 PREP TIME: 15 MINUTES COOK TIME: 90 MINUTES SKILL LEVEL: MEDIUM
INGREDIENTSSKILL LEVEL: MEDIUM
| 2 c | |
| 2 c | |
| 1/3 c | |
| 6 whole | |
| 5 whole | |
| 3 c | |
| 1 tbsp | |
| 1 tsp | |
PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE
- Soften butter & preheat oven to 350
- Cream all but 1 tbsp of the butter by whipping it in a stand-mixer. Remember to scrape the sides of the bowl 1/2 through for an even mixture.
- Beat in 2c sugar and all the orange zest from the 6 oranges until the mixture is smooth. Remember to scrape the sides of the bowl and the zest off the mixer 1/2 through for an even mixture.
- With a fork, slightly beat the eggs, juice from the oranges (about 3/4c), vanilla extract and salt. Mixing on medium low speed, pour the egg mixture slowly into the butter mixture. Scrape the sides then mix on high speed for 30 seconds.
- Add the flour, 1/4c at a time, mixing on medium-low speed. Scrape the sides then mix on high speed for 30 seconds until the batter is completely even.
- Grease a tube cake holder with the remaining butter. Sprinkle the remaining sugar around the sides.
- Bake for 90 minutes on 350. Batter is done when a few crumbs still stick to the wooden skewer - ensuring the result is both cooked and not dried out. Note: A toothpick is not long enough to check the status of the pound cake.
How Does This Ayurvedic Recipe Improve Wellness?
CLINICAL AYURVEDIC REVIEW
This rich, heavy cake can help a Vata person to gain weight. Orange zest provides aromatic taste, which helps to digest the heaviness of the cake. The orange juice provides sour taste, which also helps to digest the food and balance the effects of the sugar.
The heavy, oily & sweet nature of this recipe will aggravate Kapha.
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Your Ayurvedic diet is tailored to your individual body and your specific imbalances.
With an Ayurvedic diet you feel joy and satisfaction because what you are eating truly nourishes and balances you.
Disease results from diets and lifestyles that are incompatible with your nature.
By eating a personalized diet matched to your body, you experience optimal health.
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Increases These Biocharacteristics (Gunas)
Functional Ayurveda helps you assess imbalances through 20 main biocharacteristics
(gunas).
Aggravating these characteristics weakens your body and causes imbalance.
By knowing which characteristics are habitually imbalanced in your body, you will be able to identify and correct imbalances before you get sick.
Every characteristic has an opposite which balances it (i.e. hot balances cold).
You restore balance by favoring diet and lifestyle choices that increase the opposite characteristic.
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| MOBILE ABOUT MOBILE BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Mobile refers to anything that stimulates the nervous system, muscles, or activity.
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The 6 Tastes
Taste is used to sense the most basic properties and effects of food.
Each taste has a specific medicinal effect on your body.
Cravings for food with certain tastes indicate your body is craving specific medicinal results from food.
Taste is experienced on the tongue and represents your body's reaction to foods.
Sweet taste causes physical satisfaction and attraction whereas bitter taste causes discomfort and aversion.
Kapha should use less sweet taste while Vata and Pitta would benefit from using more sweet taste.
One of the first signs of illness is that your taste and appetite for food changes.
The six tastes are sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter, and astringent.
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| PUNGENT ABOUT PUNGENT BIOCHARACTERISTIC
Pungency is characterized by irritation, or sharp, spicy foods that irritate the mouth such as black pepper.
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Bitter taste has cholagogue action - it is cold, clear, light, and stimulating. It increases digestive enzymes, laxative, and drying.
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The Three Doshas / Body Types
According to the biocharacteristic theory of medicine,
people tend to get sick, over and over again, due to habitual causes and imbalances that are unique to the person.
Your body type summarizes this tendency, showing you the 'type' of conditions and imbalances that frequently challenge your health & wellness.
Using body type, you can also identify remedies likely to improve your strength and resiliency.
Your body type identifies physical and mental characteristics as well as your personal strengths and weaknesses.
The calculation of your body type is based on your medical history.
The 3 functional body types
(doshas),
are Catabolic (Vata), Metabolic (Pitta), and Anabolic (Kapha).
Catabolic individuals tend to break down body mass into energy. They are easily stimulated, hyperactive, underweight and dry.
Metabolic individuals tend to burn or use energy. They tend to be rosy-cheeked, easily irritated, focused, driven, and easily inflamed.
Anabolic individuals tend to store energy as body mass. If they store too much energy, they could gain weight easily and have congestion. Anabolic people tend to be stable and grounded.
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Aromatic AROMATIC
Herbs or spices with volatile essential oils that present strong aromas. Aromatic oils shock, refresh and numb tissue, with the end result of relaxing, opening and clearing stagnant fluids in tissues.
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The list of herbal-actions below has not be approved by the FDA and should not be used to treat a medical condition.
Calms Heart CALMS-HEART
An herb that literally calms the heart. These herbs are helpful in the treatment of anxiety, sadness, depression, or other emotional imbalances in the heart. Related to the Chinese Herbal Category 'calms spirit.'
SEE ALL 'CALMS-HEART' FOODS / HERBS Constituents: Carbohydrate, Fats, Vitamin D, Inositol INOSITOL
Inositol is an alcohol sugar made naturally in the human body from glucose. It is lipotropic (aiding fat metabilism in the liver). It affects a variety of hormones, neurotransmitters, steroid, growth factors and water.
SEE ALL 'INOSITOL' FOODS / HERBS , Sodium, Rutin RUTIN
Rutin is a flavonoid with anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties. Commonly used to treat conditions such as varicose veins, hemorrhoids, and high blood pressure.
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Improves circulation by dilating blood vessels. Protects blood vessels from damage. Improves athletic performance, libido, immunity, and brain health.
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My question is, is it truly 1 pound of butter we are to use, or 2 sticks? Thank you
- Cora Wilfinger, Manitowoc, WI , 04-07-21 ( Reply) This recipe uses 2cups of butter which, I believe, is about 230g!
- Katie Clinton, Ferndale, sligo, AL , 04-09-21 ( Reply) |
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