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Table of Contents
Introduction ................................................. 3
Chapter 1. .................................................... 4
Save Money on Food ..................................... 4
Is foraged food worth eating? ...................... 5
Chapter 2. .................................................... 8
Bake your own bread .................................... 8
Making a starter ....................................... 10
Chapter 3. .................................................. 13
Cook efficiently ........................................... 13
Chapter 4. .................................................. 16
Charcoal, the miracle substance ................. 16
Chapter 5. .................................................. 21
Preserve your own meat .............................. 21 | [
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Chapter 5. .................................................. 21
Preserve your own meat .............................. 21
Chapter 6. .................................................. 25
Make your own household products ........... 25
Conclusion ................................................. 29 | [
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Introduction
Who isn’t worried about the risk of another economic crash? The global
financial crisis of 2008 was bad enough, but many fear that it was just an
outrider of an even bigger crash to come. The global economy is still shaky,
the growth of eastern exporters could damage American industry, and the US
government’s own bloated spending programs are creating a debt timebomb
that no politician has the guts to go near. What’s going to happen to our
affluent, complex society if a really serious financial crisis hits?
Luckily, history has some lessons here. The Great Depression started in the
US stock markets on September 4, 1929 and quickly spread round the world.
The global economy shrank by 15% and a quarter of Americans were
unemployed. Finance, industry, agriculture… every part of the economy was
devastated, and millions were thrown into poverty. | [
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ee30bb48-567a-40b5-8c51-62bde25da1bc | The global economy shrank by 15% and a quarter of Americans were
unemployed. Finance, industry, agriculture… every part of the economy was
devastated, and millions were thrown into poverty.
This was a tougher generation, though, and they didn’t give up. Instead people
used every skill they had to save money, keep themselves fed and slowly
rebuild the country. Many of the worst affected were farmers; others were rural
people, used to taking advantage of natural resources. They could make many
things that we now rely on stores to provide, and that meant they could get by
on much less income than the average person today.
If you want to maximize your chances of surviving the next financial crisis, a
good place to start is by relearning the skills that served people so well in the
1930s. They might seem archaic, even primitive – but they work. If you
rediscover the lost ways of our ancestors you’ll be able to eat better and more | [
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rediscover the lost ways of our ancestors you’ll be able to eat better and more
cheaply; you’ll know how to cook without running up your utility bills; you’ll
be able to fix things instead of throwing them away and replacing them; you’ll
be able to make household essentials from cheap ingredients instead of adding
them to your grocery bill.
Most of today’s economic threats are 21st century ones. Hacking, identity theft,
globalization – they’re modern issues. But when the crisis hits its effects on
ordinary people will be the same as they’ve been throughout history; poverty,
malnutrition, even homelessness. And if the effects are the same, the old
solutions will still work, too. That’s what this book is all about. | [
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Chapter 1.
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The grocery bill for the average American is more than $75 a week.
Even if you follow the USDA’s “Thrifty Food Plan” you’ll still be
handing over more than $50 a week just to keep yourself fed. That’s
a lot of money – and in an economic crisis it could be mone y that
you just don’t have. With mass unemployment, rising inflation and
collapsing government assistance, there’s no way you can
guarantee you’ll be able to buy those groceries.
This is the situation millions of people found themselves in during
the Great Depression. Some of them had a choice between keeping
a roof over their heads or buying food; some couldn’t afford either.
Luckily many of them were farmers and rural people, and they
knew where to find food that was free for the taking.
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knew where to find food that was free for the taking.
That’s right – there is free food all around you, if you know where
to look. Every part of the USA has a rich variety of edible wild plants
that you can harvest and eat without it costing you a penny.
Most people don’t forage for food anymore. It’s a lot m ore time-
consuming than farming, even if you’re just keeping a small plot to
keep yourself supplied with fresh vegetables. In a crisis, though,
everything changes. What if you don’t have land for a plot, or you’ve
been forced to move and haven’t had time to start planting yet? In
those conditions, foraging makes a lot of sense.
Foraging isn’t difficult and, while it takes time, it doesn’t need a lot
of strength or skill. Almost anyone can do it – so you can teach
your kids to forage for some simple items wh ile you get on with
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any spare time you get, giving you an effective way to add to your
diet.
Is foraged food worth eating?
We’re used to vegetables that have been selectively bred for
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so you might be wondering how wild food compares. Does the
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Well, some isn’t. Grass, for example, isn’t worth the bother of
collecting. There’s a reason cows have complicated digestive
systems and spend pretty much all their time eating grass – it’s a
very low value food, especially if you have a normal human
digestive system with only one stomach. No matter how hungry you
are, it probably isn’t worth expending any energy collecting grass.
There are plenty of wild plants that are useful food sources,
though, and some of them are very common. Dandelions, for
example. To gardeners thes e are a prolific and notorious weed;
hard to get rid of, and growing almost everywhere in huge numbers
unless you put a lot of work into eradicating them. But to the
resourceful forager they’re a valuable food source, and almost every
part of the plant can be eaten.
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part of the plant can be eaten.
In spring, young dandelion leaves can be used as a salad green; as
summer approaches they start to become bitter, but you can boil
that taste out of them. The flowers can be dipped in batter and fried
– they’re great with either salt or syrup. L ate in the year, and
through winter, look for dead dandelion plants and dig up the roots
below. These can be boiled and eaten as a vegetable.
Chickweed is another common garden pest that grows all across
North America. It grows in patches, and these can be easily
trimmed with scissors – the roots will regrow, so you can come back
later for another crop. Flowers, stems and leaves can all be eaten
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poultice for blisters and infected cuts, and the smoke from burning
heads repels insects.
Cattails are also a really good food source all year round. In spring
the young shots can be eaten raw, boiled or steamed; they’re tasty,
rich in vitamins and minerals, and a great source of protein and
unsaturated fat. In late spring use the leaves as a salad vegetable.
When summer arrives collect the pollen by putting a bag over the
head and giving it a shake. Unlike most plants, cattail pollen can
be foraged in large quantities and it’s very useful. It can be
sprinkled on many foods, used to bulk out flour, or mixed into
soups and stews as a thickener.
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them and pound or grind them into a flour substitute. An acre of
cattails will produce over three tons of flour.
Because cattails grow in dense beds it’s easy to collect large
amounts of food from them. If you have a river or marshy area
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Chapter 2.
Bake your own
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Bread is a staple food – but it’s not a cheap one . Generic white
bread will cost you at least a dollar for a 2 0oz loaf, and what you
get for that dollar is not, to put it mildly, great bread. If you want
anything better than basic sliced white you’re quickly into the
region of three or four dollars for a loaf. Bread is expensive.
But it doesn’t have to be. A 20oz loaf has under a pound of flour in
it – and all-purpose flour costs less than $3.50 for a ten-pound bag.
Most of the rest, by weight, is water. So the basic ingredients for
bread are actually pretty cheap, and if you know how to bake your
own you can save a significant percentage of your weekly grocery
bill. Flour can be stored for a lot longer than bread, too, so you can
save even more money by buying it in bulk.
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doesn’t take that much time, and in any case, in a financial crisis
time is easier to spare than money. Once you master home baking
you’ll be able to have fresh bread every day for a frac tion of the
supermarket price – and home-baked bread is a lot tastier than a
cheap processed loaf, too.
There are plenty ways to make bread, and the biggest differences
between them are how the bread is made to rise. There are plenty
ways to do that too; f or example, you can add eggs to the dough.
The most common way, however, is to use yeast or another active
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is easy to find and not very expensive, but it has a limited life –
and, in a real c risis, you might not be able to guarantee a supply
of it. Luckily there’s an alternative.
Yeast has been vital to humans for thousands of years – you can’t
make beer without it, for example – but we’ve only really known
what it was since the middle of the 19th century. Commercially
available yeast has only been around since the 1870s. So how did
we manage to make bread – and beer – before we understood what
the key ingredient was?
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wild yeast and most of them will work fine for either baking or
brewing. Wild yeast can be found on the skins of fruit, they live in
the soil and they’re carried around by insects. They also drift
around in the air, so if you leave any food exposed to the air for a
while, soon enough yeast are going to land on it.
If you look at the German Reinheitsgebot – the famous Beer Purity
Law – you’ll notice something odd. It says that the only three
ingredients you’re allowed to put in beer are barley, hops and
water. It doesn’t mention yeast, but without yeast to ferment it, it’s
impossible to make beer. The Reinheitsgebot was written in 1516
though, and nobody had heard of yeast. So they just mixed water,
barley and hops, and left it to ferment. And it did – because wild
yeast landed in the huge open tubs, grew, reproduced, and
fermented the beer. | [
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smaller-scale version of this. Bakers noticed that if they left a mix
of flour and water exposed to the air for a while it started to form
bubbles. If the bubbling mix was added to dough, the bread would
rise perfectly; without the mix it stayed flat.
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collects wild yeast from the air and starts the fermentation process,
and if you mix it into dough it releases bubbles of carbon dioxide
that raise and lighten the bread. Sourdough bread keeps better
than commercial processed stuff, it tastes bet ter, and it’s easy to
make. Best of all, as long as you have flour and water you can make
a sourdough starter, so you’ll never have to rely on being able to
buy yeast again.
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a sourdough starter, so you’ll never have to rely on being able to
buy yeast again.
Making a starter
To get your starter going you only need four things:
• A glass bowl or wide-mouthed jar
• Water – filter it, or use water from a well or spring. The
chemicals in tap water can kill wild yeast
• Flour
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Pour half a cup of water into the bowl and gradually add half a cup
of flour, stirring constantly. Mix it well unti l it feels like thick
pancake batter. Now cover the bowl with cheesecloth. This will keep
dust and insects out, but the tiny yeast organisms will be able to
get through.
Leave the bowl on a counter or on top of the fridge for up to 24
hours, to make sure i t picks up wild yeast. Somewhere with a
constant temperature of about 70 -75°F is best. Then feed it by
mixing in another half cup each of water and flour. By this time
you’ll probably see a few bubbles starting to form. Keep feeding it
daily for the next f ew days. When it’s foaming and looking lively,
it’s ready to use. You’ll also be able to pick up a sour, vinegary
smell.
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