Tag: <span>flour</span>

More Adventures in Baking With Curly Dock Flour – Tortilla???

Last week I made a batch of my usual flatbread, substituting half the flour for curly dock flour and carrying on as normal. While they baked up fine, they were flatter as baking powder is not formulated for wild flour, and hardly rose while baking. This week, I made another …

Forage Processing Day and a Bread Experiment Brewing

Today being Thursday, it is my processing day of the week, not Tuesday, which this week was an emergency attempt to make space for Monday’s foraging run. I’m making progress. I thought two trays of catnip were dry, but it turns out only 90% dry. They are now mostly crushed …

Riddle Me This, October! The Answer May Sustain You!

What is round, orange, grows on the ground, and only shows up in October? What is found smashed on door steps, scattered in livestock yards, or falling out of garbage bags the animals broke into, as it waits for the garbage truck at the curb? If your answer was “pumpkins”, …

Proverbs 31:27 “She. . . eateth not the bread of idleness.”

Bread! An item baked with flour, oil, perhaps salt, yeast, maybe sweetened with sugar or honey, it might be spiced or herbed, contain seeds or nuts. . . In Scripture, it is listed with many meals, included with various sacrifices at the Temple (with recipes for how to make those …

Wild Adventures Part 6: Processing Continued. . .

I sit here tonight drinking a test cup of nettle, dandelion, chokecherry leaves, semi-crushed dried berries and stems, and homegrown mint leaves and stems.  I mixed one part dandelion to two parts of everything else more or less, and one part mint roughly.  The resulting tea had a very grassy …

Wild Adventures Part 2 – Taste-tests as the Research Continues

So far in our research and taste-testing, we pretty much have the makings of a spinach salad replacement figured out.  Everyone has taste-tested Dandelion leaves, Dandelion flowers, chickweed, plantain, and purslane.  Based on the research I’ve been putting into these plants and creating a spreadsheet to compare nutritional value, uses, …