2 Ingredients To Keep You Alive After SHTF

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[do-it-yourself-skills]

Not only is this a good idea for preppers, it's also a money-saver. I've been making my own bread for 50 years and right now, a loaf costs me about 45¢ to make. I originally learned by reading a cookbook when I was a teenager and have been baking ever since.

[jeansroses]

makes me remember the old testament story about Elisha going on a trip, and he stayed with a widow with a son, who only had a bit of oil in a jar and a bit of flour left; he asked her to make a cake for him, so she did, and afterward, the oil in the jar and the flour never ran out.

[Kokuyouski]

Won't lie, every country/culture has their version of this and pretty much all of them are wonderful... and I'm hungry.

[j.l.emerson]

Make hot water cornbread. Three ingredients: cornmeal, salt, boiling water. Mix dry ingredients, pour boiling water into dry ingredients. The amount of water depends on how thick or thin you want the batter. Fry the batter into a cake/pancake of the size that you want, in leftover bacon grease, lard, butter, margarine or whatever fat you have. Serve hot, with butter & molasses, syrup or honey. You can also serve with a pot of beans. (Put the 'cakes' in a bowl & pour the hot beans over them. Yummy!)

[joesmith]

Cooking this over an open fire is a good example of something you should learn and perfect now.

[jeanclark]

I’ve taught classes on medieval cooking. The original pasta was actually just flour and water with maybe some salt. No eggs are required.
So if you roll out a pasta dough and cut it into thin strips, you can have a completely different food. Get some greens or roots - foraged or from your garden - purée and add with some water and you’ve got an even more nutritious pasta. Roll out your dough and make a type of ravioli using the previously mentioned veggies. It tastes incredibly yummy sautéed in butter btw.

[Mello]

In Canada we call this Bannock. First Nation people all know how to make this. I learned to make it in the 70’s. It’s actually really good.

[rhondatallent]

You can use a plain drinking glass as a roller. Rub flour on glass before using it.

[davidmcfatridge]

Very timely, I decided today to stop buying bread from the store and learn to make it.

[Thanos]

I do this whenever I go camping and the people I go with always seem so impressed that I though to do this. Simply having 2 cups of flour, 1 tbsp salt, 3 tbsp sugar (why not make it a treat?), 1 tsp baking powder, 3 tbsp margarine premixed in a ziplock bag. Once at camp, mix in half a cup of water then cook either wrapped around a stick over the fire, fried in oil, or dry cooked in a pan. Bring some jam, honey, peanut butter or whatever. It's such a comfort food when sitting by the fire.

[JKLauderdale]

This was a regular thing for me growing up - Add garlic and rosemary to the dough and, if you're growing tomatoes, slice one up for serving on top. If you don't roll them and just press them flat, then you can slice them almost like a pita and stuff your fish-catch into it for what we called "fish pockets"

[robyndowning]

Chris, thanks for sharing how easy it is to make bread (unleavened) and it is so common in many parts of the world. If there could be a positive of the pandemic of early 2020 it is that I learned to make bread (no machine), can food and dehydrate as well so nothing was wasted. I am getting more of a mindset of what my grandparents had during the Great Recession and I can make tasty and nutritious meals for less money than I thought. Yes, even in today's highly inflated food prices. I also gave up soda and sugar and am focusing on a higher protein/lower carb eating plan. Thanks for all you do and your consistency in sharing info with us.

[Bubba-nineteen]

How simple this is with the fact that this is a good emergency food makes this amazing. Thank you for sharing this and would love to see more videos like this.

[annemccall]

if you want a more tortilla texture to the flat bread you can cover or rap the bread as soon as you take it off the pan and its own steam will make it flexible you just got to make sure it keeps that steam till your ready to eat

[miken]

Buy self rising flour & NIDO (powdered milk made from cream). 1/4 cup self rising flour + 2 TBSP NIDO + 2 TBSP water, makes one biscuit, add more water and makes 1 pancake.

[earleencadwell]

People should also buy and store wheat berries & have a hand operated grain mill for grid down.

[Charles-bff]

My younger brother and I used to make sopapillas using much the same method. Mom wanted to keep it simple because we started making them for the family when we were 5 & 6 yrs. old. I still make them to this day and I'm in my 60's now. One of the last things my younger brother and I did before he passed away was fixing a Mexican dinner for everyone, and yes, we made sopapillas to go with it. Every time I have Mexican food, I think of him. This video did the same thing. I sure miss him. Thank you.

[r.samuelfranks]

In Mexico we called this a tortilla.
They are delicious.

[edwardknudsen]

Recipe thousands of years old. Still great.

[safiremorningstar]

You can also use that very dough once you flipped it and it’s gotten nice and crispy to make yourself a pizza if you’re very hungry… those tortas/flatbread type of bread is good for many things not great for sandwiches because it tends to be crumbly. I find I’ve done it before. It’s really good though if you wanna make a handmade pizza and you wanna make it.