My sister is a gourmet prepper
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| There is nothing better than the smell of fresh homemade bread! Image credit: MorgueFile.com |
Her lifestyle and continuous quest is to make simple foods created from food storage. She loves to share her new finds and special touches with everyone she meets. This will also be a way to learn how to cook if you need to start completely from scratch, so to speak.
Enjoy some of my favorites from my sister's cookbook collection.
Our first recipe will be an easy to make Homemade Bread recipe.
What You Will Find On This Blog?
You will find here the simple basics of home cooking from foods commonly found in food storage. We know how to make simple meals using small budgets and food storage ingredients. Our favorite and soon to be popular items will be our baked goods and desserts. Most of the ingredients are from our food storage stock. Once you have established a pantry of goods, rotating them is simply applied by using them and then replacing the items occasionally. Holiday time is often a great time to restock and utilize baking goods and other goodies.
The lifestyle of prepping doesn't have to be for major disasters or SHTF events. Living frugally through homemade menus can help a small family survive lean pay periods or help the same family save for things like a vacation or other large expenditures.
Included in the recipes will be possible substitutions for ingredients that trigger sensitivity or allergies. It is important that consideration be paid to individuals in the family that are diet restrictive. All costs must be maintained to support their nutritional needs in the budgeting and collection of foods for long term emergencies and a general use pantry.
Preparedness and Food Storage 101
One of the first things a prepper should know how to make is Homemade Bread. Baking a loaf at home and keeping the ingredients on hand is the staple list for your food storage stock. Once this is established bake once or twice a month. Homemade bread is a rewarding activity. It tastes great and the wonderful aroma is better than any store bought air freshener. Maybe they should market this smell!
This is a recipe that can be used in a home oven or any means necessary to bake bread such as a sun oven or a dutch oven. It may also be baked in a stone fire pit using coals. Let's start the home version first.
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| Loaf Of Homemade Bread Image credit: MorgueFile.com |
Easy Homemade Bread Recipe:
This recipe may be used for any combination of flours. You may use all white flour or substitute1/2 of the flour called for with any of the following
- Whole Wheat
- White Flour
- 9 grain cereal
- Whole Grain Oats
- Rice Flour
- Flax Meal
1/2 C water
1/2 C warm milk
2 T sunflower oil
2 T honey
2/3 t salt
3 C bread flour
1 1/2 t yeast
Substitutions may be made w/ the oil for shortening or butter, honey for sugar.
You have to feed the yeast some sugary substance or it will not rise. Proofing yeast is common to test for its activity. If the yeast mixture does not double, it will not make the bread rise
Directions:
Dilute yeast in 1/4 C WARM water and add 1 T of the honey (or sugar), set aside.Mix the flour and salt together in a large bowl. Drizzle the oil and the other liquid ingredients into the flour mixture until the dough is moistened.
Cover the dough with a cloth and let it rise to double its original size. This will take approximately one hour.
Punch down the dough and place it in a greased bread pan
. Cover and let rise till doubled again. |
| Hocking Glass Loaf Dish |
If you had a jar of homemade jelly or jam to enjoy with your bread, you would know why food prepared at home is divine. More on that coming soon...
What is your favorite bread or jelly?