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It is surprising to me how many folks searching for lightweight, nutritional, delicious foods overlook basic flours.
Folks will scour shops for promising freeze-dried foods or other lightweight dried foods, but they mostly overlook the energy-rich, versitile, and delicious grain flours like wheat flour, corn-meal, rye, rice-flour, and buckwheat.
Tired of oatmeal? Boil up some corn flour in water to make a thick corn porridge. Sweeten with molasses. Oh, that is very nice in the morning. Make extra, let it cool, then cut into slabs and fry for lunch
BREADS:
With just a little research, one can easily learn how to make a great many quick-breads like Banock bread or corn muffins and corn cakes which are made with flours and baking powder.
Just as easy are yeast breads - flour salt, yeast, water. mix, set aside, and bake. It does not have to be more complicated than that. Sure, you can go full-force and knead a stiff dough to make a traditional loaf, but there are many versions of spoon type yeast breads that only require mixing basic ingredients once with yeast with a spoon, then set aside for a short time to proof, then bake.
Baking basic simple breads does not require Dutch Ovens or reflector ovens. With care, you can bake breads in your standard cooking pots. Just take your time and use less heat than you think.
If you have nesting pots, well then you have an oven already. Put the pot with the bread dough into the larger nesting pot and bake that way. A splash of water inside the larger pot will give a few minutes of steam before the actual bake time and reduce the chance of burning.
Folks will scour shops for promising freeze-dried foods or other lightweight dried foods, but they mostly overlook the energy-rich, versitile, and delicious grain flours like wheat flour, corn-meal, rye, rice-flour, and buckwheat.
Tired of oatmeal? Boil up some corn flour in water to make a thick corn porridge. Sweeten with molasses. Oh, that is very nice in the morning. Make extra, let it cool, then cut into slabs and fry for lunch
BREADS:
With just a little research, one can easily learn how to make a great many quick-breads like Banock bread or corn muffins and corn cakes which are made with flours and baking powder.
Just as easy are yeast breads - flour salt, yeast, water. mix, set aside, and bake. It does not have to be more complicated than that. Sure, you can go full-force and knead a stiff dough to make a traditional loaf, but there are many versions of spoon type yeast breads that only require mixing basic ingredients once with yeast with a spoon, then set aside for a short time to proof, then bake.
Baking basic simple breads does not require Dutch Ovens or reflector ovens. With care, you can bake breads in your standard cooking pots. Just take your time and use less heat than you think.
If you have nesting pots, well then you have an oven already. Put the pot with the bread dough into the larger nesting pot and bake that way. A splash of water inside the larger pot will give a few minutes of steam before the actual bake time and reduce the chance of burning.
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