You could make the same biscuits with just flour and water and some salt. take 50g water and 50g flour and mix into a mason jar. the next day, take out 50g of the mixture and add 50g water and 50g flour. the next day repeat. After 3-5 days of doing the same thing and depending on how warm its is where you are, you should have a jar that is starting to rise by nearly double each time you remove and add. Thats the natural yeast that's been collecting in that jar. once you get a good rise you can make bread or biscuits. Take all but 50g of your mixture and mix with 350g of water. Add in 500g of flour. Add 10g of salt. now you need the dough to rise. That's another process and if your interested I will tell ya.
The next steps before you bake is to do what is called a stretch and fold. in the container the dough is in now, you are going to get your hand damp, reach under the dough and pull up and fold over and tuck under. rotate the bowl and repeat 4-6 times. You will repeat this process once an hour for the next 3 hours. After you are done you can flour a towel and transfer the dough to it and place back in the bowl and cover it. the dough will be ready to bake when you push on the dough and it springs back 1/2 the amount you pressed in. Or you can place in the fridge and bake in the morning. you will need a dutch oven to bake this bread. preheat oven with dutch oven to 500f. while oven is preheating, take dough and place on top of parchment paper or keep on towel. remove dutch oven and place dough in it. Take a sharp knife or razor blade and score the top of the dough from end to end or make a square. cover and place in oven. turn oven to 450f and bake for 25 min. After 25 min. remove cover and keep baking for another 25 min.
Biscuits, after the stretch and fold and you let it sit out or you just removed from the fridge, you can roll this dough out to 1/2 inch or slightly more. you can cut squares, use a cookie cutter and make rounds or grab a chunk roll a ball and flatten with your hands. you will cook these on top of the stove in just about anything that is non stick.
*results will differ from different levels of temp and humidity. In the end, you will have bread from flour, water and a bit of salt.
learn how to make sourdough... culture your starter, flour water salt, ferment and bake. better than store bought and it keeps at least a week at room temperature (if it lasts that long).
the america test kitchen recipe (youtube) works well and is a good place to start (though you'll get much better results with an active starter). there are plenty of videos for fine tuning your process.
First... don't follow any recipes for starter, they are all scams or based on scams to sell flour.
You can make a starter with 2 tablespoons of rye flour or bread flour and same amount of water. Start it in a quart jar, add 2 tbsp flour every 12 hrs, and same amount of water. In 5 days, things should start to get frothy, and take on the scent of sourdough.
culture your starter, flour water salt, ferment and bake.
my post was low in details, thanks for the video link. i've not seen this guy before. many recipes are overly complicated... but i've been adjusting my process for the past 6 months and i guarantee those ingredients make a fantastic sourdough loaf. 😁
What a coincidence, I was telling a friend about this YouTube account today saying it’s great for preppers, she gives terrific tips on how to make simple foods for hard times. Great share!
If TSHTF and there is no food at the grocery store and all you have is some basic ingredients, you would be very happy to make this recipe. Even more so if you have extra mouths to feed.
Salt, water, flour. It's the classic bread recipe. You'll get natural yeast from the flour and air, and it turns out pretty well for being as easy as it is.
Lol. A biscuit. Shhhhhhh. Do t tell anyone. Love the hillbilly kitchen. Great resource op and thanks for the chuckle. She is entertaining.
You could make the same biscuits with just flour and water and some salt. take 50g water and 50g flour and mix into a mason jar. the next day, take out 50g of the mixture and add 50g water and 50g flour. the next day repeat. After 3-5 days of doing the same thing and depending on how warm its is where you are, you should have a jar that is starting to rise by nearly double each time you remove and add. Thats the natural yeast that's been collecting in that jar. once you get a good rise you can make bread or biscuits. Take all but 50g of your mixture and mix with 350g of water. Add in 500g of flour. Add 10g of salt. now you need the dough to rise. That's another process and if your interested I will tell ya.
The next steps before you bake is to do what is called a stretch and fold. in the container the dough is in now, you are going to get your hand damp, reach under the dough and pull up and fold over and tuck under. rotate the bowl and repeat 4-6 times. You will repeat this process once an hour for the next 3 hours. After you are done you can flour a towel and transfer the dough to it and place back in the bowl and cover it. the dough will be ready to bake when you push on the dough and it springs back 1/2 the amount you pressed in. Or you can place in the fridge and bake in the morning. you will need a dutch oven to bake this bread. preheat oven with dutch oven to 500f. while oven is preheating, take dough and place on top of parchment paper or keep on towel. remove dutch oven and place dough in it. Take a sharp knife or razor blade and score the top of the dough from end to end or make a square. cover and place in oven. turn oven to 450f and bake for 25 min. After 25 min. remove cover and keep baking for another 25 min.
Biscuits, after the stretch and fold and you let it sit out or you just removed from the fridge, you can roll this dough out to 1/2 inch or slightly more. you can cut squares, use a cookie cutter and make rounds or grab a chunk roll a ball and flatten with your hands. you will cook these on top of the stove in just about anything that is non stick.
*results will differ from different levels of temp and humidity. In the end, you will have bread from flour, water and a bit of salt.
updated.
There's an older lady, who's likely deceased now, who did videos years ago about Depression cooking.
Thank you for sharing!!
Depression Cooking with Clara is likely the one
Her poor man's meal are now middle class.
Yep!
https://youtube.com/c/GreatDepressionCooking
Yes, she is deceased. I've watched many of her vids, which are still on Youtube.
We called those hoe-cakes in a more innocent time, because people cooked them over campfires and turned them with a flat hoe farming implement.
learn how to make sourdough... culture your starter, flour water salt, ferment and bake. better than store bought and it keeps at least a week at room temperature (if it lasts that long).
the america test kitchen recipe (youtube) works well and is a good place to start (though you'll get much better results with an active starter). there are plenty of videos for fine tuning your process.
Lots of wrong here.
First... don't follow any recipes for starter, they are all scams or based on scams to sell flour.
You can make a starter with 2 tablespoons of rye flour or bread flour and same amount of water. Start it in a quart jar, add 2 tbsp flour every 12 hrs, and same amount of water. In 5 days, things should start to get frothy, and take on the scent of sourdough.
No. That'll barely make bread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APEavQg8rMw
This is the exact way to make a perfect sourdough loaf, every time.
my post was low in details, thanks for the video link. i've not seen this guy before. many recipes are overly complicated... but i've been adjusting my process for the past 6 months and i guarantee those ingredients make a fantastic sourdough loaf. 😁
Awsome good know how for the preppers out there, especially those with families for when the power goes out or when TSHTF. Thnx for posting.
What a coincidence, I was telling a friend about this YouTube account today saying it’s great for preppers, she gives terrific tips on how to make simple foods for hard times. Great share!
Were you reading my mind??? Thanks!!
What does it taste like? Easy is very good but if it’s not edible…..
If TSHTF and there is no food at the grocery store and all you have is some basic ingredients, you would be very happy to make this recipe. Even more so if you have extra mouths to feed.
Eating nothing very nutritious isn't going to serve you long term.
This is also why having a home garden or something is very solid, and prepping for winters.
True that. Have you tried it?
Not yet, but the Wife and I will try it this weekend and see if we can tweek it here or there to our liking.
This is for SHTF, not trying to impress a date. Anybody who can MacGuyver up a biscuit when the real apocalypse hits is getting lucky.
Salt, water, flour. It's the classic bread recipe. You'll get natural yeast from the flour and air, and it turns out pretty well for being as easy as it is.
Sourdough
You have to nurture a starter for a few days.
Thanks! Good resource.
Pemmican is also apparently very good as a bulk food. Basically half meat and half rendered fat.
french bread --- also no fat or milk
flour, yeast, water, and salt
Great, another YouTube channel to binge watch. Thanks for sharing!
Right??? My new favorite is Rain Country
I'll have to check that one out too.