Recipe requires juicer with blank plate - substitute?

greyongray

I ended up in Sedona right after the big festival last year and saw a cookbook I had to have, by Bruce Horowitz. Suffice to say that I thought I was familiar with the majority of ingredients and techniques!

He has a recipe for sprouted rye bagels that I really want to make, but in the process it says to put the mixture through a juicer with the blank plate in. What does this do to the ingredients, and can I substitute some other process?