Bread for grid down

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I can make some really good bread in the oven but I got to thinking what I would do if we didn't have electricity.

I know you can make bread in a solar oven or Dutch oven, which I have to try and do.

But what other ways are there to make bread, like Nann, tortillas, fry bread and such??

How would you keep yeast going if you didn't have those little packets???

Give me your recipes and ideas.

Thank you

[spacecase0]

I think the easiest is to just make pancakes

the wood fired earth or stone ovens are easy to build and work very well

sourdough starters are easy to keep going off grid,
and the quick breads just don't need yeast

[Skandi]

any form of flat bread, tortillas, lompe, farl, potato cakes, most countries have a version. make dough roll out thin, dry fry. I've not even considered baking bread if SHTF it would imo simply take too much fuel to be efficient, as we have limited wood supplies (and limited access to more) and while we have bottled gas top, the oven is electric. if I did want a yeasted bread for say a celebration I would make muffins, muffins are only made in a frying pan so no oven issues. yeast would be in the form of sourdough, which only takes 3-5 days to get started from flour and water.

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Aug 28, 2015 19:01:28 GMT Skandi said:

any form of flat bread, tortillas, lompe, farl, potato cakes, most countries have a version. make dough roll out thin, dry fry. I've not even considered baking bread if SHTF it would imo simply take too much fuel to be efficient, as we have limited wood supplies (and limited access to more) and while we have bottled gas top, the oven is electric. if I did want a yeasted bread for say a celebration I would make muffins, muffins are only made in a frying pan so no oven issues. yeast would be in the form of sourdough, which only takes 3-5 days to get started from flour and water.

Please elaborate on your frying pan muffins, this is new to me.

[Skandi]

Aug 28, 2015 19:44:56 GMT @dba said:

Aug 28, 2015 19:01:28 GMT Skandi said:

any form of flat bread, tortillas, lompe, farl, potato cakes, most countries have a version. make dough roll out thin, dry fry. I've not even considered baking bread if SHTF it would imo simply take too much fuel to be efficient, as we have limited wood supplies (and limited access to more) and while we have bottled gas top, the oven is electric. if I did want a yeasted bread for say a celebration I would make muffins, muffins are only made in a frying pan so no oven issues. yeast would be in the form of sourdough, which only takes 3-5 days to get started from flour and water.

Please elaborate on your frying pan muffins, this is new to me.

An English muffin (round my way anyway) is standard bread dough, left to rise just like normal, then make it into a burger shape, and fry in a dry pan on a low/medium heat until light brown on one side, flip over and do the same on the other side. do make them really thin when you put them in the pan as they puff up a lot while cooking, and if they get too thick they'll burn before cooking thorugh. I don't think they keep well, but that's never been an issue for me.

[manygoatsnmore]

Ah, Skandi, English muffins! That's a whole different animal than muffin muffins. I do love English muffins and could see using them as "bread". I like those big holes in the English muffins - all the better for conveying butter or melted peanut butter from plate to mouth.