Survival Rations Inspired by History - Just 3 a day will keep you full of energy!

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  @UtahGmaw99 · 3 years ago

  When I was a little girl, I'm an old lady now, my dad would make us bannock as a breakfast treat some times on the weekend. He would throw in some rasins and cinnamon. My brother and I just loved it. It tasted so good. He also loved the outdoors and we all would go camping every summer. He's gone now but good memories. Thank you for the reminder.

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  @gcvrsa · 3 years ago

  Adding a bit of salt to your recipe would greatly improve the flavor, and salt is also an important nutrient.

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  @omaeve · 2 years ago

  If you use modern baking paper aka parchment, which is coded in silicone you could wrap each one separately . I am an old lady of 70 and we used to use wax paper for wrapping twist of salt and pepper to take to school. We didn’t have premade things like that to buy at the store so we made our own and we also folded our sandwiches in wax paper and rolled it down the extra wax paper sealed the sandwiches and kept them fresh till we ate them at lunch. I also use this method for wrapping individual cookies back to back and then wrap them in paper. To ship to my husband when he was stationed overseas the cookies arrived unbroken that way and it is what you call a biscuit.

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  @RobRoy1372 · 3 years ago

  What about second breakfast? What about elevenses? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper? He knows about them, doesn't he?

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• EL

  @elspethawake4541 · 3 years ago

  The button and string closure on the beeswax fabric makes so much sense and makes it more useful.

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• LW

  @lw5264 · 2 years ago

  One of my friends is from a metis family, and their family’s old recipe for pemmican includes dried mint. Back when their ancestors were fur trappers, they’d make a bunch of pemmican and bury it in caches out along the traplines so they’d have food in the winter. The mint prevented mice from getting into it and eating it.

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  @snuffle2269 · 2 years ago

  There is an emergency ration sold under the name Datrex made from wheat flour, vegetable shortening, cane sugar, water, coconut and salt.  I think their shelf life is 5 years but I ate them well after and I was fine.

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• CM

  @cmactube · 3 years ago

  I just made these right after watching the video. They are actually really good. I followed your instructions exactly (added brown sugar and raisins) except I baked them longer (200c/392f) at 20 minutes because they didn’t brown at 10 minutes. I then left them in oven at 62c/145f for another hour. They turned out great. The raisins definitely make them more palatable. I like these much better than eating plain pemmican or corn dodgers. Thanks for thinking this up!

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  @MakeOrBreak2026 · 2 years ago

  This reminds me of how I reinvented my own granola bars for camping and hiking - oatmeal, peanut butter, chopped nuts and dried fruit, a bit of honey and chia seeds added for binding, enough water to make it into a dough, then form bars and bake at ~215 F / 100 C for hours until they're dried out and won't go bad. They've been fine after 6+months.

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• KE

  @kenolson3064 · 3 years ago

  I remember many years ago, a story about a young man who wanted to escape the old soviet union. It was a great story of escape. But his basic survival food was lard mixed with sugar and salt. He hiked through the snow of the mountains to get to his destination.

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  @shawnwilt7196 · 2 years ago

  So, yoi could lay the dough ball on the baking sheet and flatten ot out with another baking sheet and square it off. Then it will be at a consistent thickness. Then use a knife or something and score the dough so they can be broken apart into squares. Then they would be more consistently sized and more easily packaged.

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  @brianb8003 · 2 years ago

  The American frontiersmen, John Coulter (who in my humble opinion was America&apos;s greatest frontiersmen), made a 1200 mile trip by himself in the dead of winter through some of the harshest conditions to establish trade with the Spanish occupied territories in what is now the New Mexico/Arizona states.<br>At one point he was bogged down in 3ft snow and freezing temps for months. So he made a little shelter, shot some animals, and made pemmican. And for months just kept a fire going in his little stick/pine/moss tent, and ate pemmican. <br>When the winter broke he continued on his merry way.<br>Men were built different back then lol<br>He was also the first white man to set eyes on what is now Yellowstone National Park. The terrain he described led no one to believe him. Since what he was talking about didn&apos;t exist anywhere else on Earth.<br>One area he described everyone jokingly referred to as &quot;Coulter&apos;s Hell&quot; because it was so insane, hot, smelly, and weird that they thought he was describing hell.<br>And that&apos;s what it&apos;s called today. If you google it, one part of Yellowstone will come up with that label. :)

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