Our third preparedness problem in January is to be taught to make bread and retailer wheat or one other grain. Don’t purchase a yr’s provide of wheat with out understanding how you can make bread. Be clever. Be taught to make bread first.
Be taught to Make Wheat Bread
- Discover a couple of bread recipes and follow. Ask a pal for assist or watch a video.
- You’ll be able to substitute one other grain for wheat in case you are allergic.
- Grind wheat into flour with a mill like a Nurtrimill. Or ask a pal to grind it for you.
Resolve How A lot Wheat to Retailer
- What number of loaves of bread or waffles does your loved ones eat every week? Multiply the flour in your recipe to equal the variety of loaves or meals you eat in every week or 3 months.
- May you retailer that a lot meals in your house or would your alternative be to start out with a 1-month provide?
- The really helpful quantity of long-term wheat for one-month is 2 #10 cans or 11 lbs.
- One #10 can of Latter-day Saint wheat may be floor into about 16.5 cups of wheat flour.
Purchase Lengthy-Time period Wheat
- I like to purchase long-term wheat in 5.5 lb. #10 cans from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I order a couple of bins with 6 cans at a time so my wheat doesn’t expire on the similar time.
- At native Dwelling Storage Facilities, onerous crimson is $8.33 (2025) and onerous white wheat is $7.83. Additionally, 25 lb. luggage are $19.60 and $19.98. Comparable costs for bins with cans are on-line at ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
- Retailer wheat indoors at 75 levels or much less as warmth will diminish the shelf-life quickly.
- Examine longer-term meals storage at ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
- Learn Protect the Harvest: Storing Wheat from Utah State College Extension.
I hope you take pleasure in making bread and storing wheat or one other grain.
Top off your method!
Valerie Albrechtsen
The Meals Storage Organizer
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My 2-Loaf Wheat Bread Recipe
This recipe makes moist wheat bread. We find it irresistible!
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 tbsp instantaneous yeast
- 1 tsp sugar
- 2 cups sizzling faucet water 75-78°F.
- 4 cups wheat flour crimson or white onerous wheat
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 T salt
- 1 T dough enhancer or 3 T gluten or 2 T vinegar or 1/4 c. potato flakes
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1/3 cup honey
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Spray 2 glass loaf pans with cooking spray.
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Mix 1/2 c. heat water, instantaneous yeast and 1 t. sugar in small bowl. Let stand for five min. till frothy.
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In massive bowl, stir the wheat flour, white flour, dough enhancer and salt.
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Add yeast combination, 2 c. sizzling water and 4 c. flour combination to a mixer or bread machine bowl. Beat on low velocity for 10 min., periodically scraping sides of bowl. Beating helps knead the dough so don’t cease too quickly.
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Add oil and honey. Beat effectively for a couple of minutes.
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Add extra 2 c. cups of flour combination one cup at a time. Beat on low for 10 min. Dough ought to draw back from sides of bowl and type a ball on dough hook. If it doesn’t draw back add a bit of extra flour till it does.
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Take away dough from dough hook and divide in half. Every loaf can be about 1 lb. 6 ounces. With floured palms, form into 2 loaves. My mother used to say it was similar to patting a child’s backside. Put loaves into loaf pans.
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Cowl with a towel if it rises on the counter. Or proof in your oven lined with plastic sprayed with cooking spray. Let rise till virtually double (30 – 40 min.).
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Tip: Let the uncovered bread rise in a barely heat oven (flip oven on for five minutes after which off), after which activate to bake after it has risen.
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Flip oven to 350 levels and bake for 30 – 40 minutes. Loaves are executed when barely brown and hole sounding when tapped. Let cool for a couple of minutes after which take away from pans to proceed cooling.
