Simple Cooking for Emergency Survival
Use simple cooking techniques to extend your fuel supply and conserve your own energy. You can still have many of the foods that you enjoy now, just in a simpler version. Cooking this way will require that you gather a few items, and do some research to find easy recipes that can be put together quickly.
And, in addition, it is a good idea to practice using your stored food and food storage recipes-- before you need them!That way, when you cook for your family during an emergency, you won’t have to learn how to use your stored food or learn new recipes. During an emergency, you will fare much better if you resort to doing simple things—and things that you already know how to do…
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Cooking Survival FoodsOf course food storage should be part of your emergency preparedness program.During a natural disaster or emergency, you may be forced to cook meals under primitive circumstances. Your electricity may be off, and, you may have no easy way to cook your meals. Whether you are using freeze dried foods or foods that you prepared yourself and saved in long term storage, you should know how to use them—and have simple recipes that can be prepared quickly and easily… - Survival Cooking - Here are some tips on how to cook, when you don’t have electricity…
- Cooking Substitutions - If there is an emergency in your town, you may not be able to go to the store when you run out of an ingredient, or the grocery store shelves may be empty. But many ingredients can be substituted for others. Here’s a list to help you out…
Pressure Cooker Cooking
You can save significant amounts of energy and water by using a pressure cooker. And if you buy a canning pressure cooker, you can use it for preservation of canned goods, as well as for cooking your meals. Cooking time, using a pressure cooker, is reduced by 2/3, and vitamins and minerals are preserved with this method.
Stove Top BakingEmergency simple cooking can be done on any kind of emergency or survival cooking heat source. For example, you can bake bread, potatoes or muffins on top of a wood or coal stove.If you place a trivet in a heavy, non-coated pan, it becomes a small stove top oven. You can bake bread, pies, or even cakes. An 8" cake pan will fit into a 4 qt. pressure cooker. Don't use aluminum-bottomed stainless steel pans as the aluminum disk may separate from the pot. Copper-bottomed stainless pots may warp, as well. If you decide to use this method, use an old pot that doesn't have sentimental value. Here's another way to bake on top of a heat source. Use a heavy frying pan (without a trivet) to bake quick bread, muffins, cornbread, coffee cake or biscuits. Keep the heat low. Flip over briefly when done to obtain a browned look. When baking on top of a heat source, sprinkle cornmeal into the frying pan bottom. This will help prevent bottom burning of your baked goods.
Simple Cooking: Stove Top Baking
This can be done on any kind of emergency or
survival cooking heat source
. For example, you could do this on a wood or coal stove.If you place a trivet in a heavy, non coated pan it becomes a small stove top oven. You can bake bread, pies, or cakes. An 8" cake pan will fit into a 4 qt. pressure cooker. Don't use aluminum-bottomed stainless steel pans as the aluminum disk may separate. Copper-bottomed stainless pots may warp, as well. If you decide to use this method, use an old pot that doesn't have sentimental value. Here's another way to use simple cooking principles, to bake on top of a heat source. Use a heavy frying pan (without a trivet) to bake quick bread, muffins, cornbread, coffee cake or biscuits. Keep the heat low. Flip over briefly when done to obtain a browned look. When baking on top of a heat source, sprinkle cornmeal into the frying pan bottom. This will help prevent bottom burning of your baked goods.
Solar Tea: Simple Cooking
Here is a way to make a treat for your family – with very little effort. And it's also good for them! I do this all the time—not just in an emergency! - Place a glass or plastic gallon jar, filled with water and 7 tea bags, in the sun. Let the tea bags steep until the tea is the color that you like it. This will even work in the north in the winter--it just takes longer than in the summer. In the winter, place your tea near a wood store or in your car. Solar gain will heat the car enough to make the tea.
- Add lemon juice or instant lemonade for a treat.
- If you live in the north, in the winter, the tea will probably be cold. If you live in the south, you'll need ice, if available. Or just learn to drink it warm!
See if you can think of some more creative ways to make cooking easy without your normal conveniences. Simple cooking is not just survival cooking for a pandemic flu or a natural disaster. It can be fun, too. Make sure you have everything that you'll need – before you need it! You might also be interested in:
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