Amish Long-Lasting Recipes Every Prepper Should Learn

Armin: It all starts with yeast, but for rice wine vinegar or rice sourdough, koji starter is best. Koji demands plenty of oxygen and will stink if capped.

Use sourdough starter if you have no yeast, or let it sit uncovered to catch wild yeast. Mind that wild yeast is an unknown and you can wind up with some nasty crap. If you like the starter, some can be dried for later use.

Fermented veggies use a natural bacteria and yeast to make their vinegar. We like kraut, so cucumbers, peppers, and other things can go in the bottom of the jar or crock. As long as there’s no salt and the heat is high, 80-85 F, it acts fast without mold or yeasts forming. the faster it ferments, the crunchier the veggies will be and the more sour. niio

Sorry, buddy, but sometin’ didn’t sit right with me when you were talking about making kraut without any salt. So I had to look it up. I think the way you’re talking about making it you end up with something that could kill you. 80-85 F isn’t very hot. That’s less than body temperature. Lukewarm to us. You probably meant 80-85 C. When you’re talkin’ about making kraut with cucumbers you’re basically talking pickled or brined cucumbers. And you do need salt. This how you make pickled cucumbers. Typically, small cucumbers are placed in a glass or ceramic vessel or a wooden barrel, together with a variety of spices. Among those traditionally used in many recipes are garlic, horseradish, whole dill stems with umbels and green seeds, white mustard seeds, grape, oak, cherry, blackcurrant and bay laurel leaves, dried allspice fruits, and—MOST IMPORTANTLY—SALT! The container is then filled with cooled, boiled water and kept under a non-airtight cover (often cloth tied on with string or a rubber band) for several weeks, depending on taste and external temperature. Traditionally stones, also sterilized by boiling, are placed on top of the cucumbers to keep them under the water. The cucumber’s sourness depends on the amount of salt added (saltier cucumbers tend to be more sour). Since brined pickles are produced without vinegar, a film of bacteria forms on top of the brine. This does not indicate that the pickles have spoiled, and the film may simply be removed. They do not, however, keep as long as cucumbers pickled with vinegar and usually must be refrigerated. Some commercial manufacturers add vinegar as a preservative. Sauerkraut is made the same way. Finely shredded cabbage layered with salt. Peace red brother.

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Oracle: They give me hiccups. We have chimayo, if you want some seeds. They like cooler weather and while they can get burned by frost, keep on growing and blooming. Also might soon have bird peppers (chiltepin). Both can survive winter here with some protection. A neighbor has the parent chiltepin and it’s 4-5 years old outside.
Meanwhile, I checked on a peck of dried Hatch reds and found something got into them. My fault. They should have been hung in a burlap sack. Will salvage what I can. Quail will like the seeds 🙂 niio

Hey, Kit. So nice to see you pop up here. These pages aren’t quite the same without you. 😉 I can understand why you’re a single lady. You’re just too damn smart for most men! I like smart women. They challenge me and I like being challenged. That’s how we grow and evolve. First things first. As for a little piece of heaven; lately I’ve discovered a chocolate caramel pecan cream pie. Right now my favourite pie in the world. Sooooooo good! I think I already mentioned this one to you before. The song by Blues Saraceno; Carry Me Back Home. Great song. Might be worth adding to your playlist. If not there already. Lately I’ve come to appreciate many wonderful southern tunes. There’s a lot of good music there. Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Crossfire. Steve Earle’s Copperhead Road. Chris Stapleton’s Tennessee Whiskey. Great song! Gretchen Wilson’s Redneck Woman. I like her. “I know all the words to every Charlie Daniel’s song”. LOL! Now on to the rest. You’re saying that your crust comes out too hard, Kit. Easy way around it is to get some new dentures. 😉 JUST KIDDING! You’re spot on with your idea about the pan of water in the oven. A little trick to make your bread come out better with a softer crust is to BOIL the water first before putting it into a preheated oven with your bread dough. Helps it to generate steam/water vapour easier. Cold water in the oven helps to pull the temperature down in the first little while. The boiled water generating steam should help to give you a softer crust. If you try it let me know if it works. What do you have to lose by trying it? A hard crust. 😉 Everyone keeps talking about their flour going bad after a while. Don’t have a lot of whole wheat on hand so I haven’t checked it in a while. Hope it hasn’t gone rancid. But as for the white flour I’ve NEVER had any of it go bad on me and some of it is 10-15 years old. Every once in a while I’ll grab a new old bag of flour and use it and it’s perfectly ok. I don’t know why others have problems with their white flour and I don’t. Not doing anything special to store it. It’s in the original bag in a vermin proof container. The container is NOT airtight. I just store the flour in a relatively cool, dry place with plenty of airflow. We get plenty of humidity up here in the summer time. So the humidity can’t be a factor. As we have very cold winters up here the air gets so dry that it may dry things out between the summer heat and humidity and help to preserve them. I just had a strange thought, Kit, talking about cold, dry air. And I know you’re probably rolling your eyes. Might be something to try with one bag of flour and see how it turns out. May be the bag of flour that lasts the longest after people have used up the other ones. If people have one of those chest freezers and plenty of room in it why not just store your flour in that? Seal it in freezer-grade plastic first so it doesn’t pick up the moisture from the other things in the freezer and see how long it lasts. You shouldn’t get any ice crystals forming in dry flour. Today the temperature with the humidity factored in is supposed to be 38/39 C. Tomorrow 41 C. That’s a ridiculous temperature for up here. C’mon grand solar minimum! 😉 We just had one heck of a thunderstorm roll through here. 4:30 local time. Regarding your response to CC there’s nothing much I can add to it. Fires in one place. Flooding in another. Drought somewhere else. A year or two of bad crops. Meat plants being forced to close. No workers to harvest the crops. If there are crops in the first place. It’s all coming together to give us food shortages and empty shelves. Still pretty good up here though. The shelves are pretty well stocked with most everything. High inflation hasn’t quite hit us, YET! What I do notice is slow in being restocked are things like canned meat. Pickled herring. Yum! Know the canned road kill not the best thing to stock up on but in a pinch when I haven’t eaten for a week will taste like the best meal I’ve ever had. The baked beans are still pretty cheap at Walmart. Still under a dollar per can. Have to get a bunch more before Sept. 06 when the US unemployment cheques stop. Also running out of TP. What I do find conspicuously absent in your response to CC is that you didn’t mention the ongoing, worsening global shipping crisis which I alluded to on another page. I wrote a whole big long blurb on it. That’s also making it difficult to keep shelves stocked. I pretty well agree with everything you have to say about this covid thing. We’re being forced to quarantine under the pretense of it being called a pandemic and it IS a true violation of our civil rights. Worldwide. And it’s only a pandemic because it’s jumped borders. People in the beginning of this shouldn’t have been hoodwinked by the fear and hysteria generated by the mainstream media. Controlled by a very few wielding disproportionate power. Instead they should have done their research and due diligence and not given into their fear. NO ONE can give you any medicine or do any medical procedure on you without your express consent. Preferably in writing. It’s akin to assault and even rape. If they try that you can sue their asses off. And if people had done their due diligence and refused the so called “vaccine” en masse (BTW this is NOT a vaccine it’s a medical procedure done under experimental conditions…it violates all kinds of laws…look up the definition of a vaccine) in the first place we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in now. I know it sounds heartless and I’m really not but even the ordinary flu kills approx. 3/4 of a million of us most years and nobody gives a hoot about that. When this kind of covid disease comes along every 100 years or so it typically takes out about 3% of the population. The Spanish flu of 1918 took out approx. 3% of the world population at that time. And I say let it. I know I sound like a heartless monster. It targets the weak, the infirmed and the elderly. And frankly we’re better off without them. It helps to strengthen the rest of the herd. Even though I could be considered one of the elderly. Although I do have a stellar immune system. No drugs, Don’t smoke. Drink in moderation when I do drink. Drugs are a huge problem worldwide. And not only pot. Things much worse than pot. The people with a good immune system sail through a covid infection and then are stronger for it. This is how nature works. Kills off the weak to preserve the stronger. As for Covid certificates and passports I know our gov’t is talking about them as related to travel. International and inter-provincial. Don’t quite know how they’re going to enforce inter-provincial travel by car. I’m pretty sure there’s no border crossings between provinces. They’re also talking about certificates for non-essential events like sporting events. Concerts. Movie theatres. Places where people are jammed together. I’m sure that’s being driven by the businesses themselves. They’re all hurting. Haven’t heard of anyone being denied service from essential retailers like grocery stores or any retailer for that matter. As long as you’re wearing your mask when going into a store we should be alright up here. And you can be sure I’ll be wearing my mask long after the hysteria has died down. Covid 19 is now in our environment and it isn’t going away any time soon. I’m sure it’ll come around once or twice a year and take out some more of us. And now they’re trying to force a third shot on us. As if that’s going to make any noticeable difference. I don’t think they’ll be able to do it because then there’ll be a lot of lawsuits but if it ever gets to the point where we need proof of vaccination to go food shopping I don’t care about that. I have enough food on hand for at least 10 years. As long as they don’t shut off my water and power. I’m not going to call it a conspiracy, Kit, but it seems as if the governments of the world are colluding and doing everything they can to try and force that damn vaccine down our throats. Well, not our throats but in our arms. 😉 And you have to ask yourself why. Is it about more control of us. Maybe. Or is that a red herring. Is it about money. Definitely. The vaccine is much more expensive than Ivermectin which has been shown to be quite effective against the virus. And a LOT cheaper. So let’s say it’s not about control but only about the money.That still doesn’t explain the government’s rabid; which means having or proceeding from an extreme or fanatical support of or belief in something; attempts to get 100% of the population vaccinated. To be polite let’s use overzealous. So why are they so fanatical about getting EVERYONE vaccinated. So that there’s no control group. Nah. Too easy. Besides they’ll NEVER get 100% coverage. So could it be that there’s something in the vaccine itself to make the populace even more docile and dumb them down even more. And it doesn’t show up until about a year later. There have been no long-term studies done with this vaccine so they really don’t know what it’s going to do in the long run. And they’re hell bent on giving people that third shot. There have been studies done on that vaccine backed up by at least one Japanese study. And these studies were done by real scientists. Epidemiologists. Peer-reviewed and published in accredited medical journals. What they found in the vaccine was a cytotoxic spike protein. Which apparently breaks off from whatever molecule it’s attached to and can lodge anywhere in the body. Where it lodges it can cause any number of problems ranging from blood clots, strokes, heart attacks, etc. Basically anything you can think of. And this has been grossly underreported and swept under the rug. At least 1/2 million people have had some kind of serious adverse reaction to the vaccine. I will refuse the vaccine unto my dying breath. And if I get sick from the virus (BTW I think I’ve already had it…February of this year I think) and I force the doctors to give me Ivermectin instead of the vaccine and I die anyways. I don’t care. I figure that was my time to go. We all come with an expiry date. At least then I’ll have peace and no more debilitating pain.

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Armin: Liberals used to be for liberty. Now they’re owned by people like soros.

Toba is interesting and called the volcano that almost destroyed the world. On the other hand, Canada is interesting because you have so many volcanoes, mostly in BC. But, there are plenty of caldera in the west. With so many, it’s moronic we’re not using them to make electricity. Hawaii and Iceland are laughing all the way to the bank on this. Environmentalists shriek hate over that, but were told to shut up and sit down by dems. They obeyed though to them, the earth is man’s only god.

If you watch Geology Hub and others on youtube, you’ll find most of Canada’s volcanoes got their start under glaciers, some a mile high. Think of it like this, the earth north to south is not round, but from the side, oval. We see this in Cahokia, the snake mound. From the side, the earth is egg-shaped thanks to the sun pulling on it and that we rotate. What happens at the top and bottom? Volcanic activity. Not global warming, but active volcanoes caused the ice to retreat. https://www.livescience.com/4992-volcanoes-erupt-beneath-arctic-ice.html

Yes, if the poles melted it would raise the ocean level very high. Add a very large asteroid and it’s possible all land masses would crumble under the water. It’s happened, and geologists think might have happened 3 times. That would release super-pressurized water from under the mantle and some have hypothesized there may be more there than we see in the oceans. BTW, there are picture from decades ago when the Arctic was ice free for months. https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/nsidc-arctic-was-ice-free-in-the-past/

You should be careful of following the money people. There are plenty who still refuse to acknowledge soft tissues in fossils simply because it destroyed fossil collecting by millionaires for a time. Remember the old saying, money talks and the rest of us walk. Science is a living entity. As it’s run by people, it can be wrecked by people. Max Planck (ID, father of quantum physics) said it best, science advances one funeral at a time.
https://www.livescience.com/46194-volcanoes-melt-antarctic-glaciers.html
https://earthsky.org/earth/volcano-under-pine-island-glacier-worlds-fastest-melting/

BTW, I had to put Skeeter bits in the aquaponics tank. Mosquito reduction is now over 90% and increasing. Too many are Asian tiger mosquitoes, which can carry half the plagues known to humanity. But, that’s Arizona!

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Rule the world? I’d be happy if I could rule myself 🙂

BC is part of the ring of fire. Yes, we’re overdue for a lot of volcanic activity. Any place with a hot spring is active. Lake Tahoe has a lake of lava forming under it. Tio Popo in Mexico is called the key to the ring. According to ancient records, he’s decades overdue. Last time Tio burped, Mt Fuji lost his snow cap. All calderas are acting up. The Colorado and Rio are faulty lines and people on reservations near them are heading uphill. If into geology conspiracy theory, then the Mississippi is going to crack open all the way to the great lakes. That’s never happened because New Mad is an anti-fault and the only way Superior would drain down that way is in the case of an ice sheet filling the St. Lawrence, again.

Yep, I know what the earth is shaped like. So did the mound builders at Cahokia. 🙂

If not for the sun, the earth would be somewhere out in the galaxy. Gravity keeps us in place by pulling at us. niio