I've got my family started eating better and I came across a recipe for an alternative for goldfish crackers. It contains flour, oatmeal, wheat germ, salt, basil, water, olive oil and shredded cheddar cheese. If I make these, how long can they last before they're not good anymore? Thanks ladies. New to the whole foods thing. :)
Yes, here's the recipe:
http://blog.superhealthykids.com/2012/02/homemade-cracker...
I suggest just a few days if the room is warm. They have no preservatives and will get moldy. I can keep a loaf of bread without preservatives just a few days before the mold shows up. I would keep only a few at room temperature and store the rest in the refrigerator.
You'll know better after you see what happens with the first batch. Keep a few at room temperature and see how long they last.
If they didn't have the cheese? (and were kept dry) Theoretically forever. Although they'd get stale. Crackers, noodles, etc are all ways to preserve grains (which will also keep a few thousand years as long as they're kept dry.
But one you add dairy (butter, cheese, etc) the oils can go rancid, and the cheese by definition already has molds (cheese is just moldy milk). So they can go rancid or moldy fairly quickly without preservatives to inhibit mold or bacterial growth, and to slow the breakdown of the animal fats.
As little as a few hours to as long as a few weeks. Depends on how they were cooked, how dry they are kept, and the temp of how they're stored. Kept in an airtight container (glass or metal or glazed ceramic or porcelain that has been high fired... Which turns the surface to glass, glaze itself is glass... I differentiate because earthenware is porous and absorbs moisture), in the fridge (which is by nature moist, hence the airtight container... they'd keep the longest. In a humid warm house? The shortest.
No longer than a week as there are no preservatives and the olive oil and cheese could go rancid pretty quick. You might put them in an air tight container in the fridge and don't let the kids stick their hands in the container to get the crackers to cut down on introducing germs to the potential petri dish....then you'll get maybe a few more days out of them.
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If it's a big batch I would portion them and freeze them. Weelicious.com has some cracker recipes and she says you can freeze them.
Until you eat them? =)
Could you share where you found the recipe? I found one but I can't seem to get the taste I'm looking for out of it. :)
I would store them in the fridge and probably not longer than a week because you don't have the preservatives, etc. You could also freeze them.
