Woohoo! I found my nuts and bolts recipe!

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Man, I’d been looking for this for quite some time. Since it’s my ex-gf’s recipe (well, technically, my ex-girlfriend’s ex-roommate’s mother’s recipe, if that makes any sense) I had resigned myself to never experiencing its teasingly sweet tang of garlic and Worcestershire sauce again. But now, rejoice, O oppressed tastebuds! Your moment of emancipation has arrived!

So here’s the recipe:

Mixture:
6 cups cereal (this can be Golden Grahams, Chex, Corn Pops, whatever you want. I find Corn Pops and Golden Grahams are especially tasty)
1 cup salted peanuts
1 cup pretzles
2 cups Bugles

Sauce:
1/2 cup margarine
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp onion powder
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1/2 tsp chili powder (optional)
1/4 tsp tabasco sauce (optional)
Mix nuts and cereal in a shallow baking pan and spread evenly. Melt margarine in a separate bowl; add Worcester sauce, garlic and onion powder and mix well. Pour over cereal and toss until evenly coated. Bake at 300 F (150 C) for 25 minutes or until toasted and crisp. Turn mixture several times while baking. Add salt to taste.

I’m getting me to a grocery store posthaste. Does anyone here know what one teaspoon of garlic powder would be equivalent to in real garlic cloves?

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Here’s my mom’s Nuts & Bolts recipe. You’ll never eat pre-packaged “Chex Mix” again!

Combine:
4C Cheerios
4C Rice Chex
4C Wheat Chex
4C Corn Chex
1/2 lb. nuts
10 oz. pretzel sticks

Mix:
2C salad oil
2T worchestershire sauce
1T garlic salt
1T salt

Mix well and toast in 250 degree oven for at least 2 hours stirring every 15 minutes.

mmmmmmm!

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Treviathan; If your garlic powder is garlic salt, then 1 level tsp is probably equivalent to 1 or 2 cloves and half a teaspoon of salt, if we’re talking about garlic granules or pure powdered dried garlic, then 1 level tsp is probably worth about 3 or 4 cloves.

In my experience, fresh garlic is an odd thing; it doesn’t seem to make a whole heap of difference if you add 2 cloves or 5 to a dish; it may stay on your breath longer, but it takes a lot of garlic to overpower other strong flavours.

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I was about to tell the OP that finding his bolts recipe was something to celebrate, but that he never should have lost his nuts.

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I meant to mention I’ve never heard of this concoction before.

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Seriously? I grew up on this stuff. I basically pictured a big bowl of Nuts and Bolts next to “ubiquitous” in the dictionary. With a handle like Mangetout, I’m particularly disappointed. :wink:

Anyways, I’ve put the first batch in the oven. I’m taking half of it to a friend’s birthday tonight; you’re all cordially invited to come over and share.

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I suppose it’s just another thing that we don’t have over here in the UK, but I’ve not even heard Americans mention it before now.

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Don’t feel bad, Mangetout. I’d never heard of it either.

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I may try it next weekend though.

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Technically I’m Canadian, so “Nuts and Bolts” might actually be a Canadianism (kinda like “chesterfield”)…maybe it’s called something else in the States.

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As an addition, try adding a bit of Li Hing Mui powder to the mix. (Not much though, since it’ll overpower things pretty dang quickly.)

YUM! :smiley:

<< Pick a pack of pickled… >>

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I’ve always heard the term “party mix” applied to concoctions of this sort. I opened the thread because “nuts and bolts” didn’t jibe with “recipe” IME.

OTOH, I’ve got a great casserole recipe for sheet-metal screws, if anyone’s interested. :wink:

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Holy cow. I thought everyone called this stuff “nuts and bolts”.

I need to get out more…

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Never heard of it either.

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I’ve seen similar things, although not this precise recipe, but have never heard the term nuts and bolts before.

The recipe looks good 'though - I may have to try it some time soon.

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Oh yeah, I forgot to ask - what’s a bugle?