I lived at the epicenter of one of the largest earthquakes California has seen. Since it was a small mountain community, I had no electricity or water for about a month. I was one of the fortunate few whose house survived unscathed. Survival in the aftermath was difficult. I learned from it. Prior to the earthquake most of my extra supplies were frozen. Not anymore. No electricity, no freezer. I have to say that Honda gave everyone generators, Coca-Cola supplied free drinking water.
I cooked my meals on the small hibachi I had. It was cold and rainy. I survived, but it was difficult. Now I am always on the lookout for something that may make my life easier in the event of an emergency. I look for recipes with ingredients that have a long shelf life and don’t have to be refrigerated.
As I skimmed through the book before I read it I saw a recipe that required buttermilk. I do have powdered buttermilk, but was thinking this was not the type of cookbook I was looking for. He tells you how to make buttermilk from powdered milk. He also says that hardwood ashes that are white can be used to replace baking powder as a leavening agent.
He tells you how to make a clay oven in the side of a bank or a slope.
Some of the recipes can easily be made with stock from the pantry, some can’t. Recipes include breads, muffins, and biscuits. Recipes are for cooking them in an oven. Would have been nice if he gave more thorough directions for cooking with a dutch oven. He says the cooking time should be roughly the same as in an oven. Did not say if you should put charcoal on top of the dutch oven. He has recipes for cakes and cookies baked on cookie sheets and in cake pans. Not so good if not in an oven.
Lots of stew and soup recipes that would work in an emergency situation.
This book is well written. It is not filled with typos. I thoroughly enjoyed the information section at the beginning of the book. It was much more practical than many of the recipes.
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