Best Baking Ingredients Prepper Stockpile Beginners Guide Pantry Essentials hi it's
AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper global food prices are soaring it's a great time to take an inventory of
your prepper pantry to make sure that you have the prepper pantry staples the baking supplies
stockpile basic supplies ingredients that allow you to continue to make basic foods you care to
have if you're no longer able to buy them you want to look at your basic baking supplies ingredients
see if you have them all what if you wanted to make bake bread biscuits pancakes or waffles do
you have the things ingredients to make cookies cakes keep your family going with a variety of
meals do you have just a basic flour so that you could even make hard tack if you wanted to
there are certain just basic foods you can make with your baking ingredients supplies
you need to have them on hand the first ingredient supply is flour but don't store flour in the bag
that's not going to keep flour airtight it's not going to keep weevils out it's not going
to keep critters out of food it's not going to keep flour fresh you want to at least put flour
in an airtight container and if you want to have flour on hand you need to store it a little better
than that but because flour is a powder it's very difficult to do things like vacuum seal it because
it can completely mess up your vacuum sealer you can put flour in a paper bag and then seal it with
a foodsaver bag or you can order flour like i did from the LDS or Mormon church you can buy flour
already in a number 10 can it's already sealed up to last for 25 or 30 years and it's very high
quality flour during the beginning of the pandemic when you couldn't get flour i was able to go to my
prepper pantry stockpile and get out a can flour that i probably had for 10 years and open it up
and try it and guess what it was perfectly fine flour fresh as can be when you originally opened
the can flour it had a little bit of a can smell to it let it sit out for a few minutes and that
odor dissipated and then it was just like fresh flour one of the things to note when you buy foods
from the LDS or the Mormon church you're paying for a six pack of cans when you order food from
Augason Farms or Mountain House you're getting one can food but when you order from LDS Mormon you
get six cans of that type of food so when you're comparing prices you're not comparing one to one
you're comparing the price of one can to six cans then you can see that purchasing the foods online
from LDS church which i've done many times is a really good deal because you're getting
six cans of food next you want to have sugar sugar needs to be kept dry you want to keep it in an
airtight container i buy extra sugar at the store and put it away in canning jars and i just seal
the lid i don't do anything else and i've had no problem with this staying fresh for a long
long time occasionally i'll tip jars of sugar over make sure they don't have any hard spots
solidified this sugar has been in pantry for several years and you can see it's still nice
granulated sugar brown sugar is the same you need to keep it moist so that also needs to be airtight
you can do something as simple as put a bag of brown sugar into a sealed up airtight container
i put it in jars before but it's harder to get it out for me so i prefer to store brown sugar in a
little bit easier access type of containers you need to keep brown sugar moist if the brown sugar
gets hard you can do something as simple as open your container drop in a slice of bread or a slice
of apple or a little piece of say terra cotta tile that you've moistened close the lid and allow the
sugar to absorb the moisture for a day or two and then it should all be softened up again you can
also soften it in your microwave but you risk that it gets too hot and starts melting so i prefer to
let it soften over time you can also make your own brown sugar with white sugar and molasses
i'll put a link to a video i made on how you can do that should you not have any brown sugar or
you don't care to store all the different kinds of sugar if you want to sure powdered sugar it's the
same thing airtight put it in a container and then it's going to be just fine i have put sugars away
i don't do anything else except put them in an airtight container and they've lasted a long
time you can also make your own powdered sugar by putting granulated sugar into your blender
and whipping it all up i made a video about that too and it really works we need to store salt
you can put salt in a mylar bag in a five gallon bucket into a clean canning jar and salt will stay
cool and dry don't just store piles of salt in the cardboard containers because i had a problem where
salt got completely hard and nobody wants to go to use a little bit of salt and you have to chip
it away with a hammer or a grater if you take the time to store salt properly when you get it then
you don't have a catastrophe on your hand when you need some salt so stored in an airtight container
be sure that you label salt and sugar don't just take it for granted that you'll remember
or recognize because back in the day we had a kool-aid disaster because things were not labeled
make sure you have baking soda baking powder you want to make sure that you're keeping track that
you have these ingredients have an extra supply of baking powder baking soda there are shortages
prices are going sky high you want to make sure that you are able to find these basic ingredients
a can of baking powder should only be maybe two dollars but you don't want to pay an absorbent
amount because you didn't prepare ahead of time with foods that are just basic that you want to
keep on hand i've made videos about how to tell if baking powder and baking soda are still fresh i'll
put a link to those videos so you can check that out if you're wondering about the foods in your
pantry cornstarch is great you can use it for thickening your gravies your soups your stews
and it already comes in a nice airtight plastic container that you don't always get when you
buy food like baking soda stock up on yeast it's always good to have yeast on hand even if you're
not making bread regularly packages of yeast that could yield a lot of bread for your family
i consider oatmeal part of my pantry baking supplies i do like to eat a lot of oatmeal
just as oatmeal but you can use oatmeal to make cookies you can grind oatmeal make flour and put
oatmeal into breads you can add oatmeal meatloaf there's all kinds of things you can do with oats
and they last nearly forever you can take oatmeal right out of the container that you buy in the
store and pour oats into a clean canning jar and oats are going to last for a long long time
oatmeal is also something ingredient that i bought from LDS Mormon church simply because
it's a very convenient size to have oatmeal in a can i've rotated oatmeal and they're top
quality you can have that food security knowing that you have food set aside that's not getting
contaminated it's not getting wet it's not getting infested with any kind of a critter
and if you need to go and get that food it's set aside and it's there to help feed your family
eggs are basic baking supplies ingredients but you can't keep eggs in your pantry you can look
for something like Bob's Red Mill egg replacer egg replacer works great you measure it right out
you can have the eggs that you need in your pantry with your baking supplies i also bought
powdered eggs from Augason Farms now you can find Augason Farms powdered whole eggs
or powdered scrambled eggs which scrambled eggs that's easy but if you want to actually use eggs
in baking you want to have Augason Farms whole egg powder because you don't want scrambled egg that
has other seasonings and things in it so if you're only going to choose one type of powdered egg i
would recommend that you buy Augason Farms whole egg powder so that you can have more uses for it
in your cooking and your baking or you can use egg powder to make scrambled eggs if you choose
then think about mixes that you like pancake mixes waffle mixes these are great because
you can just add water or just add water oil some baking mixes you need water oil and eggs
read carefully what are the extra ingredients so that you make sure you have those in your
pepper pantry stockpile but you can't just store baking mixes in a paper container they become
stale they might get infested with critters you can also end up with the weevils that naturally
occur in the grain that are hatching out of your product pantry bugs so if you plan on
storing baking mix long term you need to set them aside in an airtight container don't buy
bunches of and baking mix set them on your shelf because that's when you're going to have a problem
you can look for little packages of baking mixes these are great for an everyday prepper
pantry stockpile because you can pull baking mix out make a meal for your short term pantry
but you can also get bunches of baking mixes and put them away in a five gallon bucket and they're
going to last for several years so think about biscuits muffins pizza crust that you basically
only need to add water read the ingredients on the back they're not created equal if they
require things like eggs and milk i don't like to stock up on those you may not always have milk and
eggs but you're probably going to have water and then you can still use these baking mixes products
corn muffins are the same but i've had problems with these for decades getting the weevils and
bugs in them so corn muffins cornmeal those kind of food ingredients i don't like to stockpile
more than a few months worth simply because i have had those go bad and so that's one of the warnings
that i'm giving you if you like corn muffin mix cornmeal make sure that you're rotating
them keep track of Jiffy corn muffin mix store them as airtight as possible if you see a food
that's interesting buy one take it home and try it we all make mistakes with our food storage and our
grocery shopping but we don't want to waste food so when you buy food make sure it's part of your
plan that you're going to use it this is a way that you can have baking mixes ingredients already
sealed to live in your pantry for 10 years or more they're labeled that they'll last for 10 years but
i think if you store long term food carefully that you can still count on them lasting longer
you can have biscuits pancakes look for some of these baking ingredients
already sealed to last for you it's a great way to have variety for the long-term food storage
in prepper pantry stockpile for the longest lasting foods my family also has a sourdough
starter it's been in the family for generations we've been making sourdough for decades and even
has a name this is Doughen luckily AlaskaGranny is still making Doughen sourdough starter is also
something you can spread out on parchment paper and allow it to dry and then you have the dried
sourdough starter you can reactivate when you need some there are two tools that you need for
your prepper pantry baking supplies the first one is a sifter did you realize people used to have a
sifter all the time maybe you remember your old granny having one you put your flour in the top
and you sift your flour out okay people didn't sift flour just to make it fluffy
they also use sifter because it helped remove the little weevils
pantry bugs critters that could get into flour weevils are naturally occurring and in the olden
days they didn't have a way to freeze flour for a few days and put it in an airtight container
having to deal with weevils was just something they had to put up with
so everybody had a sifter there's different kinds of sifters some sifters have a hand sifter control
i like the sifter with crank but if you don't have a sifter pick one up think of it as a necessary
emergency prepper item if you want to make biscuits you need a biscuit cutter because
you're only supposed to put together the biscuit dry ingredients with your shortening and just
cut it in together that's what they call it cut it in together so it's like little knife edges
and you just get biscuit dough mixed up together because if you start stirring and mixing then it
takes away the fluffiness of your biscuits so if you don't have a biscuit cutter get one and then
practice making biscuits it's simple the recipe is even right on the side of the baking powder
global food prices are rising we know shortages are happening and we can see that there's droughts
all over and food is just either not available it's becoming expensive it seems a little scary
for the future we want to make sure we have food security for ourselves and our families so stock
up on your prepper pantry staples that allow you to bake if you need to and then seal those foods
up carefully to make sure that they're really going to last only stockpile foods that you're
willing to eat that you know how to use and then rotate and replace them remember your pantry is
a working pantry you should be working your way through your food and then replacing it so that
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