Make bread without an oven
At the bare minimum, keep flour, salt, baking powder and oil, and practise one flatbread before you need it.
Flour is cheap calories, but only if you can turn it into food. These are 3 ways to make bread when the power is out: skillet flatbread, Dutch oven loaf and bannock on a stick.
YOU'LL NEED
- Flour
- Baking powder or yeast
- Salt, oil, water
- A cast iron skillet or Dutch oven
- A camp stove, grill or fire
Instructions
- Skillet flatbread (fastest). Mix 2 cups flour, 1 tsp baking powder, ½ tsp salt, 2 tbsp oil and about ¾ cup water into a soft dough. Split into 6 balls, press them flat and cook 2 minutes a side in a dry hot pan.
- No-knead loaf. Mix 3 cups flour, 1½ tsp salt, ¼ tsp yeast and 1½ cups water. Cover and leave it 12–18 hours. Shape it and rest it for 1 hour.
- Bake in a Dutch oven. Heat the Dutch oven over coals. Drop the dough in and put the lid on with coals on top (about 2:1 more on top than below). Bake 30 minutes, then 15 more with the lid off or the top coals cleared.
- Bannock on a fire. Make the flatbread dough a bit stiffer, wrap it around a green stick and turn it over coals until it sounds hollow.
TIPS
- Powdered milk and sugar make a softer, kid-friendly bread.
- Store yeast in the freezer. It lasts years.
- Practice once now so it isn't your first try in an emergency.
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