Posted: 8/1/2008 2:17:47 PM EDT
| Anyone have a recipe for "flatbread? You know, like what you see people in third world countries baking outdoors with no modern conveniences? In a SHTF situation, I think knowing how to do something like that with your stored wheat would be beneficial. |
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I hand ground a 3grain bread (wheat, rice, oats) 2 weeks ago and just winged it. It turned out great. I have made bread from scratch before so I knew how moist the dough is suppose to be. I really didn't measure anything. Start making bread now if you want the skills for later. I have made tortillas, pitas, and loafs of traditional breads, and I have found the the recipe for non leaven bread is almost (and can be) the same as leaven bread but with out yeast. leaven bread taste so much better and other than adding the starter it the same to make. learn how to maintain a starter and how to harvest yeast naturally (the white dust on grapes is yeast). you don't need an oven to make bread neither I have made leaven bread pita or naan style bread on a flat cast iron skillet. works great. just check out a few pita, tortilla, and other bread recipes and get a general idea on a basic formula and go from there. be flexible. |
There's a lot to be said for wingin' it.  This old Eagle Scout never actually did dough on a stick. It would work. I think I will scrounge up a piece of sheet steel to keep around for a makeshift griddle. I recall the old Cajun guy who used to be in the Lay's potato chip ads, (I gaur-on-tee!) on a cooking program doing "Da sucklin' peeg in Grampa's ode' clay oben." I have plans here somewhere from Sunset magazine to build one.  Edited to add from Google Dated 2001: Justin Wilson, the Cajun humorist and chef whose distinctive accent delighted viewers of his ''Cookin' Cajun'' television show, died on Wednesday in Baton Rouge. He was 87. Mr. Wilson wrote five cookbooks, released 27 albums of short stories and an album of Christmas songs, and was the host of several cooking programs. He referred to himself as JOOS-tain and became known for the expression: ''I gha-rawn-tee!'' (guarantee), from the Cajun ''J'vous garantis.'' |