The bread is secondary in this presentation. Although I am certain it is very good, the thinking outside the box for a prepper is beautiful. Baking with what you have in your kitchen and tea candles gets you to think of what is possible, pots, pans, dishes, etc. Oatmeal in morning, bread, hot drinks, heating and rehydrating freeze dried meals, cooking the tuna helper type boxes or the Knorrs type, the list goes on. Change the heights and use the old tuna can, cardboard and wax candle for heating or refill the tealights with wax and a new wick. My first thought with the bread was that it sounds like an excellent dutch oven project. Replace the tea candles with charcoal briquettes, put a couple or 4 on top and cook. Looks like a simple survival bread. Minimum of ingredients, one pot preparation time, etc. His next two presentations are just as good. Don't know if Chellovick plans to cover them or not. Only problem is that I "think"? all temps are in C not F and while the rest of the world uses C, the USA still doesn't. The subjects prepared, a variation of the Ezekiel bread from the b Bible or roman meal breads are well worth any prepper knowing as well as basically a modern fruitcake that looks very good. If Chelovick doesn't want to cover them, I will as they are well worth being in your diet as well as prep supplies. The best way to rotate supplies, is to enjoy eating them every day. The idea that if you are stressed out and sitting in a hole, somehow that food that you wouldn't eat before, is going to keep you alive may be pushing the envelope.
This the first bread that is described. It isn't really a "bread" but a mixture of nuts and seeds held together with flour and the "secret" sauce, ground flax seed. While it has a great nutritional value, going back to at least the Romans, it was included in the soldiers grain ration as a means of maintaining regularity in a diet without a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables. It is in fact very close to the expensive nutri bars found at your health food store. But you control the ingredients and know they are fresh. It is a high density food suitable for prep supplies or for camping, hunting, working in the garden, quick pick me up meal at a long day at work, ect. I would be tempted to add a little cut up dried fruit as I love that taste. But that might cut down on the storage time and make it more like a fruit cake and less like a nutri bar, The one warning is that the temps are given in C and thus you have to convert it to F for your ovens in the USA. Again the idea is for a bread good enough to eat as well as storage. Some other breads that are similar for prepping is the original Ezekiel bread. It was the Jewish version of the LDS food storage and proved effective a few timers when the barbarians were at the gates and laid siege. There are many versions as the one shown here does not use sprouted grains. The one in the Bible does not either. Since it was gathered together as the army retreated to the city, it contains grains that were usually used for animal feed and was ground in a mortar and pestle as it was cooked. The interesting fact is that in the combinations given, it contains all of the necessary amino acids to stay alive. Ezekiel proof tested it by staying alive thru a 390 day siege with only the bread and water. It was not a diet for working, nor was it a pleasure to eat, but like the LDS food plan, it will keep you alive.
The third bread is dried fruit, nuts, oatmeal and flax seed meal and is like a Christmas fruit cake. It is gluten free for those with an intolerance, and the flax is there to help keep you regular as well as a source of vitamins. It is best if allowed to age and blend flavors for a couple weeks and I would guess if stored in the freezer, be like dried fruits, good for years in storage and months when removed from storage. Note on freezers, two types, regular and frost free. For long term storage you DO NOT WANT a frost free. It regularly raises the temp in the freezer to above freezing to remove the frozen water from the unit. It is done in such a way that the foods do not thaw out enough to spoil as the temp is raised quickly and dropped again. It will however take your sealed foods and remove moisture which will freeze in the package and ruin the texture. The old type will keep dried fruits, dried tomatoes in oil,frozen veggies, ect, for years. Have a lot of frost, but food is good. New frost free will look beautiful and drop storage times to months. That is my experience and YMMV. Again this is just a starting point and if you do get into it for either day to day, as a desert or high energy food, or for survival, you may wish to change what you throw into it. If you replace the oats with wheat, it would be more like a bread, but not gluten free. Again the temps are in C not F. Mine did not make the two weeks time to cut it, was gone before then. Used dried apricot, dried pine apple, dates, salt free mixed nuts assortment, 20 % peanut, ect, was good.
Here is a listing of four historical prepping food. American bias with several Indian foods. Rugged Recipes: How to Make 4 Historic Survival Foods And here is how to keep the squash in the three sisters which were the Indian food to survive the winter. Corn and beans just need to dry to keep, squash needs to be dehydrated. How To Dehydrate Yellow Squash Dehydrating Butternut Squash for Meals, Soups, and Desserts My great grandmother taught my grandmother the way to store dried squash and use it in cooking, Must have been a sight, a Lakota teaching a Norwegian how to cook for her husband.
