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21.08.2023 - 11:54 / theunconventionalgardener.com / Emma Doughty
This is one of a series of posts looking at what we might eat on Mars, where most food would have to be shelf-stable, tinned or freeze-dried. You can find other posts on this topic under the Martian Meals tag.
If you read through the reports from the various analog missions (people simulating aspects of spaceflight missions without leaving Earth), one of the recurring features is the importance of fresh bread. During missions that involve a bread machine, it features heavily as a boost to both dehydrated rations and crew morale.
A lot of bread machine recipes (at least, the ones that come with the booklet that accompanies the machine) rely on shelf-stable ingredients. Powdered milk features heavily; it allows you to setup the machine on a timer to come on hours later, without worrying about the milk spoiling.
That hasn’t been an option for me for ages, due to my cow’s milk intolerance. (However, I have recently become aware that Delamere has started doing whole goat’s milk powder, and I have some to try.)
Ryan and I rely on our bread machine, and have bought only a handful of loaves since the beginning of the pandemic. We have been adding to our repertoire, with flatbreads and burger buns joining the ranks of sliceable loaves. Some rely on fresh milk or yoghurt; others don’t.
The latest addition to our loaf roster is one I adapted from a Facebook video. Originally for a handmade loaf, I have adjusted it to suit the bread machine.
(*Or replace the water and the coconut milk powder with 200ml coconut milk.)
In our bread machine, the ingredients go in as they are listed. I use the 750g loaf and the basic bread settings, and it browns up nicely.
It doesn’t taste of coconut. What you end up with is a nice, light-textured white loaf.
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‘Potato Pete’ was a cartoon character from the WW2 era, whose job was to persuade people to fill up on homegrown potatoes rather than bread made from imported wheat. Potatoes made it into all kinds of recipes during the war, replacing some of the fat in pastry and even turning into dessert. The Ministry of Food published the Potato Pete Recipe Book, which you can read online.
Oca is a very tasty and useful vegetable tuber. It grows well for me in North Wales. It’s good ground cover and polycrops well with taller partners such as tomatoes. Fresh picked and raw, many varieties have a lemony (oxalic acid) taste which goes after exposure to the sun. The cooked taste is sweet. The texture ranges from that of a slightly less crunchy water chestnut to a soft puree which depends on the variety and how much you’ve cooked them.
My dad’s minimalistic and flexible (but delicious!) recipe for sage and onion stuffing.
I have resigned from my job, in the hope of a happier life, and the looming period of self-imposed austerity has brought out my Inner Womble
I invented this soup for lunch. I should say now that the only reason I weighed everything was so that I could write the recipe down for you – left to my own devices I just bung things in.
The onion flatbreads I made earlier turned out to be absolutely divine. I said I have been honing my flatbread skills, but to be honest I use the Moro flatbread recipe and it’s a doddle. The hardest thing to remember is to start at least an hour before you want to eat them, as you have to give the dough time to rise.
The ice cream experiments continue, with a spate of frozen yoghurt trials. I have never been a big fan of chocolate ice cream, but something I read online (and a half-empty jar of Nutella) prompted me to give Nutella frozen yoghurt a go!
Just over a year ago I took the Tree Aid Tree food challenge, and created a recipe using several ingredients harvested from trees – Superfood, superfruit, supertasty flapjacks.
A bread machine recipe, from the Logik Stainless Steel Bread Maker instruction booklet, for a loaf that is about 1/4 wholewheat flour.
A reliable French-style bread machine recipe, from the Logik Stainless Steel Bread Maker instruction booklet.
Another of my dad’s minimalistic (but tasty!) recipes, for a wartime crumble mix that uses breadcrumbs rather than flour.