Here is my favorite WW bread recipe:
Posted on 09/16/2023 3:07:53 PM PDT by CottonBall
This is an ongoing thread – meaning come back to chat, post information, or ask questions any time. Hopefully the thread won’t stagnate and I’ll do better at posting weekly (or bi-weekly) topics than I have in the past. (anyone willing to post a topic now and then we'll be highly praised and appreciated).
We are in for some bumpy rides, and prepping can only help. If for peace of mind, if nothing else. We have a wonderful gardening thread and a current-events survival/prepping thread, and hopefully this one can piggyback off of those, maybe having a longer discussion about certain topics or … whatever. It's your thread, do what you like with it! (civilly, of course)
Here are granny’s threads, if anyone wants to peruse them:
nw_arizona_granny’s Thread #1
nw_arizona_granny’s Thread #2
nw_arizona_granny’s Thread #3
Very illuminating—thanks for posting.
God bless you! I hope you or someone can continue this vital ministry. We are in the times when multitudes, including FReepers, will wish they had paid more attention and prepared.
I have been a prepper for forty years; my preps are finished and I leave them to my family and friends. Health and issues of persevering are where my efforts are now.
I want to say that it is nearly impossible to prepare for every crisis. Our superiors are skilled at catching us off guard and unawares. Some very basic ideas are essential to draw attention. Precious metals and historical items of value need to be considered; however, those commodities can be undermined or outlawed - plus achieving fair trade may be challenging. For those of modest means I would emphasize silver and especially 'junk silver' such as silver American coins; at least they are still legal American currency.
Next I would consider tools, tools of all kinds but most likely to be in demand. In these situations tools have always emerged as a highly sought after necessity.
Bringing up tools leads to barter. When 'legal' currency becomes just paper, items most folks will need become a 'new' currency. This category might include toothpaste or corn muffin mix up to matches, clothing, soap - surely toilet paper (the first item historically to run out of supply - COVID!)
Shelter and water are vital considerations. Both are essential to survival. That brings up 'networking', organizing a tight group of local dependable folks with a multitude of skills and resources, who can face tribulations together and endure.
This is a woefully inadequate listing but a good skeleton on which to build a 'body' - hopefully a surviving living body. 👴
She takes me back to a simpler, better era. I love her kitchen and her apron.
TY Bob. I hope someone takes the thread over and makes it successful
Wow. I don’t make ww bread, but when I make white bread or rolls, I generally add 2 or 3 tablespoons of vital wheat gluten to the generic AP flour I buy. I didn’t really know how much I should add. Thanks for the info.
Thank you for your selfless efforts to help people prep and live more efficiently. You have done a great service.
Thank you. I’ve not attempted to make bread entirely of ww flour so this should be interesting.
There are special sieves you can get that sift the bran out of your home-ground flour. They don’t get all of it, but they do get a lot!
Also, you can remove the bran before grinding by using a grain polisher. I’ve only seen electric models, but the mechanics are simple enough I think a pedal-powered one could be built if necessary. These are also good for making pearled barley or white rice, for when you want that particular texture.
The bran can be used separately so the nutrients don’t get wasted. Use it like a nut flour, keeping in mind that it will make baked goods heavier. Or you could mix it into something with a strong flavor, such as chili.
Also, the bitterness from 100% red wheat can be improved by a generous layer of jam.
If you only have whole red wheat for your bread, you will learn why our ancestors made jams and jellies by the ton back then!!
awww, well now I feel guilty for jumping ship. I just figured the interest isn’t there right now.
I’m going to save your post, that’s a lot of great ideas. I didn’t know we could polish wheat berries. Or sift out the bran.
Do you want to do the thread? You are a wealth of information!
And I hear you on the jam! And the red wheat. At first that’s all I bought and then I learned about white wheat and switched. But I have a lot to use up.
“I’ve not attempted to make bread entirely of ww flour so this should be interesting”
It definitely is better with some white flour in it. But the sweet version that I have at the bottom of the card is quite yummy. It definitely overrides that red wheat bitterness.
Unfortunately I have learned that I don’t have the executive function needed to run a thread. My few weeks in charge of the gardening pinglist were a disaster.
I would be perfectly ok with prepping being rolled into the existing weekly gardening thread, if Diana is willing. It definitely focuses more on practical gardening than it does on ornamentals. We even get into discussions on cooking and preserving, seed-saving, and ways to improve the soil long-term. All important prepping topics.
Now that’s an idea. But I don’t want to put any more on Diana’s plate. She’s doing a great job with the gardening thread and she sort of doing everything alone since the cooking thread and now the prepping thread are going away. I guess we can just get on the gardening thread and talk about prepping. Maybe that will be okay?
Thanks, CB.
Sorry, should have pinged you to these posts
Yeah total wheat bread is a challenge.
I make sour dough bread from my own starter. The starter consists of all whole wheat flour that I grind from red wheat berries. When I make my bread I use 1000 grams of flour and 600 grams of starter.
Of the 1000 grams of flour I use 400 grams of wheat pre weighed then soaked for 1 hour before making bread. So basically I have 1000 grams of wheat and 600 grams of white flower plus other ingredients such as salt, honey or sugar and water.
I don’t use any other gluten, the white flour and starter take care of that. This makes two sandwich loaves.
My artisan bread is different. Have not mastered it yet but when my sandwich loaves are served people are like hogs at a trough.
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