Any Home Bakers Here?

[BullChick]

I just added that to my shopping list. It’s not hard to use vinegar, but I think it will be handy to have around.
It’s kind of ironic since I just made some powdered sugar today, and I also make my own self rising flour as well as bread flour.

 

[rjohns39]

I just added that to my shopping list. It’s not hard to use vinegar, but I think it will be handy to have around.
It’s kind of ironic since I just made some powdered sugar today, and I also make my own self rising flour as well as bread flour.

So how do you make bread flour? I know how to make AP, did it once just to see if I could... Not ever gonna do it again.

 

[ronott1]

I just added that to my shopping list. It’s not hard to use vinegar, but I think it will be handy to have around.
It’s kind of ironic since I just made some powdered sugar today, and I also make my own self rising flour as well as bread flour.

The nice thing about the buttermilk powder is that it lasts a long time in the fridge. If I buy buttermilk, it usually spoils

 

[rjohns39]

The nice thing about the buttermilk powder is that it lasts a long time in the fridge. If I buy buttermilk, it usually spoils

Ron it lasts even longer if you store it in a Mylar bag with an O2 absorber and descant.

 

[ronott1]

Ron it lasts even longer if you store it in a Mylar bag with an O2 absorber and descant.

I have the o2 absorber! Not the Mylar though.

I used the O2 stuff and vacuum sealing bags to store dehydrated eggs

 

[Aria]

I always have MILK in the refrig and when recipe calls for
Buttermilk....I add fresh lemon juice and milk is now buttermilk.

 

[wyoDreamer]

DH talked this weekend about making "mixes" for helping to make quicker meals during the week. I have shortening powder and dehydrated eggs, among other ingredients, so I will be vacuum sealing bags of biscuit mix, pancake mix, probably some dumpling mix. I know these are all easy recipes, but if it is all pre-measured and all i have to do is dump in a bowl and add water, why not make it easy on myself.

 

[BullChick]

Bread flour recipe

• 1 teaspoon vital wheat gluten
• 1 cup all-purpose flour

Cake flour recipe

• 7/8 cup all-purpose flour + 2 tablespoons cornstarch

 

[BullChick]

DH talked this weekend about making "mixes" for helping to make quicker meals during the week. I have shortening powder and dehydrated eggs, among other ingredients, so I will be vacuum sealing bags of biscuit mix, pancake mix, probably some dumpling mix. I know these are all easy recipes, but if it is all pre-measured and all i have to do is dump in a bowl and add water, why not make it easy on myself.

I ordered two copies of a book that was supposed to be how to can ‘just add water’ meals. Instead, it required all recipes to be put into Mylar bags. I didn’t have any bags, a dehydrater, or the sealer. I still don’t get why they would use the word ”can”, and have a bunch of Ball canning jars filled with food on the cover.

 

[wyoDreamer]

I ordered two copies of a book that was supposed to be how to can ‘just add water’ meals. Instead, it required all recipes to be put into Mylar bags. I didn’t have any bags, a dehydrater, or the sealer. I still don’t get why they would use the word ”can”, and have a bunch of Ball canning jars filled with food on the cover.

It was probably written before mylar bags and oxygen obsorbers and then re-released with the "new, better" directions.
I would think you could just put the ingredients into hot ball jars, put a hot lid on it and screw it down tight, then set it upside down and cover with a towel to let it cool. The jars should seal that way. I will have to look for some of those cookbooks.