What Preps are you doing this week? Part 4

[BlinkingCory]

I spent the best part of the afternoon vac packing a years worth of ready to go bannock mixes.
Sultana
Chilli flakes
Black pepper & herb
Cornmeal
Parmesan

I love me some bannock!

[Deeps]

I spent the best part of the afternoon vac packing a years worth of ready to go bannock mixes.
Sultana
Chilli flakes
Black pepper & herb
Cornmeal
Parmesan

I love me some bannock!

That sounds interesting, you got recipes you'd care to share shippers ???

[Plymtom]

I spent the best part of the afternoon vac packing a years worth of ready to go bannock mixes.
Sultana
Chilli flakes
Black pepper & herb
Cornmeal
Parmesan

I love me some bannock!

That sounds interesting, you got recipes you'd care to share shippers ???

That's actually a bloody good idea Deeps, a no oven bread thread? After all a Dutch oven requires special attention, even Bannock outdoors is made on and near an open fire to radiate heat at it, for most of us reliable recipes for pan cook-able breads would be a great reference as most of us have back up cooking options which involve camp cookers more or less, my cardboard oven works though I haven't proved it with a FB pie, more because I don't feel the need.

I've tried flat bread, thin pancakes, in fact one of our favourite meals in the last few months has been ordinary pancakes rolled up with a layer of stuff inside it, one of us uses strawberry sauce, others have tinned meals, like curry or Tika masala from Tesco making sure the chicken gets shredded so as it spreads, often a couple of hot dog sausages rolled in too doesn't go amiss, this requires eggs of course, which you can get dried, or coated in mineral oil to make them last months, because sandwiches and bread in general play a big part in the British diet we need options, quick fuel efficient ones.

[Deeps]

I spent the best part of the afternoon vac packing a years worth of ready to go bannock mixes.
Sultana
Chilli flakes
Black pepper & herb
Cornmeal
Parmesan

I love me some bannock!

That sounds interesting, you got recipes you'd care to share shippers ???

That's actually a bloody good idea Deeps, a no oven bread thread? After all a Dutch oven requires special attention, even Bannock outdoors is made on and near an open fire to radiate heat at it, for most of us reliable recipes for pan cook-able breads would be a great reference as most of us have back up cooking options which involve camp cookers more or less, my cardboard oven works though I haven't proved it with a FB pie, more because I don't feel the need.

I've tried flat bread, thin pancakes, in fact one of our favourite meals in the last few months has been ordinary pancakes rolled up with a layer of stuff inside it, one of us uses strawberry sauce, others have tinned meals, like curry or Tika masala from Tesco making sure the chicken gets shredded so as it spreads, often a couple of hot dog sausages rolled in too doesn't go amiss, this requires eggs of course, which you can get dried, or coated in mineral oil to make them last months, because sandwiches and bread in general play a big part in the British diet we need options, quick fuel efficient ones.

and pickled too...not everyone's bag of course. Some avant garde thinking there Tom, I like it.

I've not made a cardboard box oven yet although thanks to here they're on my radar and an option if required. Not quite the same thing but I fancy a crack at this too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz2ssyGfg58

[Plymtom]

Not quite the same thing but I fancy a crack at this too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz2ssyGfg58

Yes I like that too, would probably attract too much attention though, mind you with a pile of bricks I reckon come TEOTWAWKI I could bash out a bricked up chimney in our place and cobble together something like that, and probably include an oven of sorts in to too, it'd take lots of bricks but if you also had fuel ( and fuel could be anything combustible you could scavenge) then you're in business.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Your going to want bricks out of a old storage heater or fire bricks.... Normal household bricks or brick driveway sets will potentially explode if heated

[BlinkingCory]

Hi Deeps, I tinkered and parped about for ages and settled on the below.
It works for me, not saying it's the best.

Basic mix
1KG Plain/Bread Flour (whatever needs rotating in preps)
500G Milk Powder
3 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons baking powder
2 teaspoons salt

And
1 Tablespoon herbs
Or 2 tablespoons chilli flakes
Or 1 Tablespoon Garlic powder
Or owt else I fancy.

That gets mixed up and I make 8 sealed packs from it.
Repeat until bored and kitchen looks like a flour snowstorm.
I dont add any shortening/fats to the mix, when out and about I carry a hipflask of oil in bergen and add a wee splash to each mix when adding water.

For sweet Bannock, I double the sugar (demerara this time) and add a couple handfuls of whatever dried fruit I want with cinnamon powder.

When using cornmeal, half the flour is replaced with equal weight of cornmeal.

Each mix is big enough for me.
I cook it a bit different to most people, I steam it for about 15 minutes in a lightly oiled plate/steaming bowl thingy in a billy can. Once it's cooked and tripled in size, the plate goes directly onto embers/stove. Bannock gets flipped after a couple of minutes to colour each side.

My favourite is sea salt and cracked black pepper, but forgot to make it this time!

ps. Cooking it the way I do, means it can be done entirely on a gas/wood stove if need be.

[Deeps]

Brilliant mate, thanks for sharing. Now that the weather is getting better I'll maybe get a chance to have a play.

[Plymtom]

Your going to want bricks out of a old storage heater or fire bricks.... Normal household bricks or brick driveway sets will potentially explode if heated

I once had about 1200 of those delivered in one day to a block of flats we were building- took 6 of us all day to unload/distribute the damn things, I'll have to look into that perhaps but not yet another thing for the list.

[BlinkingCory]

Brilliant mate, thanks for sharing. Now that the weather is getting better I'll maybe get a chance to have a play.

It's defo worth steaming first mate, comes out much more bread like.
For anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about regarding steaming, google zebra lunchbox.
I steam it in the plate that fits on top of pot, under the lid.
Once steamed, I take the plate out of the pot to place straight onto embers/stove to colour up the Bannock.