Canning and Home preserving

[R2elk]

God bless that truck ... and you too!

Thank you.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I love making homemade bread, but I've never frozen yeast bread dough. Do you shape the dough before freezing or just freeze the dough, thaw, raise, then bake? In other words, what do you do when you freeze it? I think my DH will like having bread dough in the freezer alongside our homemade pizza dough.

Hi @ThreeOfSeven ! The recipe I use is kind of a combo of sourdough and light bread. It starts out as a batter and you don't really knead it, but it becomes like regular bread dough. You put it in a bowl in the fridge and don't use it till the next day, when you cut off a portion and stretch it to shape it into a boule (a round ball), let it rest and bake it in a very hot (475-500°F) oven with a bit of steam to oven-spring the last bit of rise out of it. When I am shaping one loaf to bake, I will go ahead and shape the rest, wrap each one in plastic wrap and put them in the freezer. When I want to bake again I take one out, unwrap it, let it thaw, rest and rise, about an hour or two, then bake. Works great and easy peasy!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

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I freeze mine as a ball. Stores sell them shaped.

I love your decaff meme, made me lol. I love Inigo montoya and The Princess Bride. I battled a serious caffeine addiction and won about the same time I quit smoking. You can have my share!

 

[BlueBaby]

I am 64 and was raised with Doomsday in the future... for many years I read the fox fire books and Had evacuation plans .... Pretty bad when you are twelve and thinking of this stuff. And of course was in on it all and had plans worked out but didn't talk about it. We lived in Vegas at the time and he worked on Top secret stuff....

But fast forward to modern times I see wisdom to being prepared as far as you need to. For me its maybe a month or two... and I worry about water so soon as I can I am going to get a generator to work the pump. Eventually the pump will be converted to Solar with a battery back up. The well is a thousand feet from the house.

There are scenarios where electronics arent going to be a help. Hand pumping water is not an option my well is 450 feet deep. The best bet for me is to have my big water tank plumbed to the house and keep it full. It holds 3000 gallons.

But I digress. Pantry space is not built into my house so I have to decide where to put it and what means I am going to use to keep it a constant temperature at least 70 degrees passively... and I may have a way.

Yes, water would be very important in a situation like that. Most of the prep food's are dry, and you will need water to be able to hydrate to cook them, along with water for drinking.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I hear that! What's the point of coffee without the caffeine?

Lol, the taste, and the habit of having a hot drink in the morning. I don't actually drink decaf coffee. I drink a natural barley drink called Pero. It's delicious and calorie free. I knew if I said I'm off to have a cup of Pero you would all look at me funny.

 

[ValerieJ]

Lol, the taste, and the habit of having a hot drink in the morning. I don't actually drink decaf coffee. I drink a natural barley drink called Pero. It's delicious and calorie free. I knew if I said I'm off to have a cup of Pero you would all look at me funny.

Not me! That is a delicious drink!

 

[ThreeOfSeven]

Hi @ThreeOfSeven ! The recipe I use is kind of a combo of sourdough and light bread. It starts out as a batter and you don't really knead it, but it becomes like regular bread dough. You put it in a bowl in the fridge and don't use it till the next day, when you cut off a portion and stretch it to shape it into a boule (a round ball), let it rest and bake it in a very hot (475-500°F) oven with a bit of steam to oven-spring the last bit of rise out of it. When I am shaping one loaf to bake, I will go ahead and shape the rest, wrap each one in plastic wrap and put them in the freezer. When I want to bake again I take one out, unwrap it, let it thaw, rest and rise, about an hour or two, then bake. Works great and easy peasy!

OMG! I love this! It sounds like fun. Can you share the recipe or tell me where I can find it? <didn't see a begging emoticon>

 

[ValerieJ]

I am 64 and was raised with Doomsday in the future... for many years I read the fox fire books and Had evacuation plans .... Pretty bad when you are twelve and thinking of this stuff. And of course was in on it all and had plans worked out but didn't talk about it. We lived in Vegas at the time and he worked on Top secret stuff....

But fast forward to modern times I see wisdom to being prepared as far as you need to. For me its maybe a month or two... and I worry about water so soon as I can I am going to get a generator to work the pump. Eventually the pump will be converted to Solar with a battery back up. The well is a thousand feet from the house.

There are scenarios where electronics arent going to be a help. Hand pumping water is not an option my well is 450 feet deep. The best bet for me is to have my big water tank plumbed to the house and keep it full. It holds 3000 gallons.

But I digress. Pantry space is not built into my house so I have to decide where to put it and what means I am going to use to keep it a constant temperature at least 70 degrees passively... and I may have a way.

I have actually thought about canning water. Even the large plastic jugs would deteriorate over time. Our well is on the generator, and I think if we conserved energy, we could go a couple months on our generator. We have a 100 gallon propane tank and with the amount of outages we have, in 5 years we have not used more than about half that amount. And seriously we have outages all the time in the winter. We're at the end of the line, so if anything happens anywhere, it effects us.

 

[ValerieJ]

I am 64 and plan on living another thirty.... LOL

I'm 66 and I sure hope I don't!!!

 

[ValerieJ]

That's funny! I bought winter boots and declared that they were the last ones I would need to buy. Said that my new golf clubs were going to take me to the grave. Now I can plan my canning to do the same.