Posted: 1/28/2008 7:28:42 PM EDT
| Does anyone know of a good cook book on ways to make bread ect. using wheat, flour or meals like back in past. I would like to get a wheat grinder and one of those Dutch ovens. But I wouldnt know the first thing about cooking things like our anscesters did. |
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Somebody posted this site a while ago: www.preparedpantry.com/ You can also try foodnetwork.com, who should have just about every bread receipe there is.... |
| I don't know it this is what you are looking for, but I remember it in all of my relatives kitchens from when I was a kid. Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book. It kept me from screwing up alot of meals. I never follow the recipies to the T, but it keeps me in the ball park. |
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I have my mother-in-laws cook book from the mid 1940's. It is MUCH more useful for survival cooking than any new cookbook. Virtually all the recipes call for basic foodstuffs: Flour. Water, salt, yeast, onions, potatos,lard, you get the picture. In addition to providing recipes for really basi foods, it also has GREAT information on food storage: How to make jellies and jams without pectin. Given the depression era time frame the book also has a ton of suggestions regarding how to do something without the needed ingredient. How to make your own baking powder for example. In addition to providing cooking directions, it also provides cooking INSTRUCTIONS: Just how do you "knead bread"? You'll find recipes for bread. You'll also find recipes for damned near everything remotely edible. Remember, this is Post -depression, and mid-war rationing era cooking. My book has recipes for beef hearts, tongue, Braised brains  , tripe, canvasback duck delmonico, fricassee of guinea fowl, broiled squab, potted pigeons, and roast possum. Most old cookbooks from the 1930-40's are useful. The only shortcoming is that they can be short on spices. Most recipes are very very good, but its sugar, butter and lard coocking. Lots of salt and pepper. Not a jalapeno in the book. forget curry too. Its not an issue. Cook to the recipe and season to taste. Mine is the "american Woman's Cook Book", edited by ruth berolzheimer. Look on ebay. You can find one here. frozenny |
i have 2 copies of that book, one that was my mothers, (i liberated it when i moved out) and another i bought on Ebay, since i had worn thebinding on the first (and i replaced her copy too) it relatively cheap, and a treasure trove of information, my Wife calls it 'The Book', we use it often |
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In addition to the classics, also check out this PAGE for ANYthing dutch over related. Every one I make the dr pepper spareribs for loves them, I usually use coconut jasmine rice as the base to a heaping ladel of the ribs and sauce. The meatrollups are also good. Also ALMOST anything you can do in a slowcooker, rangetop or regular oven can be done in the dutch oven IE versitle. Once you get one, you will probally be getting more. I swear I have a few hundred lbs of cast iron at my place. |
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old cook books hit use dbook stores, thrift stores etc. Just the other day for the large sum of 3$ i picked up. outdoor life- how to cook and clean wild game( as agift for a newb hunter) Colonial cooking- a book about open hearth cooking. good find. sinds that i have sevral "old" read 1975 and older cook books from reader digest,etc. one is " natural foods cook book- new york times" awesome book with LOADS of bread recipes. |
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On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee Check it out at amazon where you can search inside it. - link GL |
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My wife and I just started down the mill your own wheat road. I would tell anyone interested in getting started to check out breadbeckers.com. We are lucky and they are somewhat local to us and we were able to attend a getting started class last weekend. If you will just Google breaad making or mill your own flower you will get tons of sites to help you out. Simplylivingsmart.com has some good videos that might be of some help as well as Breadtopia. |