Birchermüesli Guetzli

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    16

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Swiss Cookies: a home-baked cultural journey

By Andie Pilot

Published 2021

  • About

Apples are the main ingredient in Dr. Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner’s healthy ‘mush’, his Birchermüesli. Combined with oats, condensed milk, lemon juice, and nuts, Birchermüesli embodied his ideas about the importance of raw food in the treatment of disease. He experimented with raw food diets in his famous sanatorium on the Zürichberg and eschewed the idea of animal proteins, preferring vegetarianism.

Chock full of apples, oats and nuts, these vegan cookies are a nod to Dr Birche