Flatbread

[Morgan101]

Has anybody tried this? I looks easy enough. Kind of a simpler version of Hardtack. I wonder what the shelf life would be?

 

[Weedygarden]

Yes, I have long thought that flatbread would be a great idea for prepper food. It is easy and could be made with little notice. Serve it with beans and rice.

I have made some varieties of flat breads. Some have no leavening, like this one in the video, but some use baking powder or yeast.

We can buy pre-made pizza dough in Trader Joe's. Pizza dough, although not necessarily considered a flat bread, is a flat bread, and can be made days in advance and stored in the fridge.

I wonder about pre-making this dough and if you have refrigeration, keeping the dough in the fridge? Could the dough be made in advance and taken hiking or camping? I think so, but it could also be almost as easily made while out camping. You just need heat and a pan or baking stone. Some varieties of flat breads are usually cooked on stones used just for that purpose.

In Arizona, I saw premade masa for corn tortillas. Tortillas are a flatbread. I do have some naan in my freezer for when I eat dal and rice.

https://www.homesteadingforum.org/threads/flatbread-varieties-from-around-the-world.15239/

 

[Morgan101]

I did a little research on the topic, and was surprised how old, how common, and how widespread this is used. I guess the more common term would be unleavened bread, and it has been around for thousands of years on almost every continent. I am going to give it a try. I wonder how it would taste if you seasoned the dough before you fried it? Is it called frying? This guy put it in a frying pan, but there is no oil; just heat.

 

[Weedygarden]

I did a little research on the topic, and was surprised how old, how common, and how widespread this is used. I guess the more common term would be unleavened bread, and it has been around for thousands of years on almost every continent. I am going to give it a try. I wonder how it would taste if you seasoned the dough before you fried it? Is it called frying? This guy put it in a frying pan, but there is no oil; just heat.

Seasoning: I would certainly add some salt, and maybe garlic powder. I think he said to butter it with garlic butter. It could be buttered with salted butter and that would help with the flavor.

Whether you call it frying or not, I am not sure. He says that the pan does not have any oil in it. I think of frying as using oil. But this is also how it could be made on a baking stone in an oven like some other flat breads can be made, maybe naan.

 

[Morgan101]

Maybe using Dutch oven? I was thinking of putting some Italian seasoning in the dough. It looks like you make them one at a time, so you could season each one differently. I would think the seasoning, whatever you used, would not affect the shelf life.

I think he was suggesting butter after they were made, which would be a good idea.

 

[ClemKadiddlehopper]

Cast iron skillets work well for 'dry' frying flat breads.

 

[joel]

We made Hoe Cake on the wood stove when the power was out.
Think of one big pan cake or a biscuit that is flat & looks like a pizza shell that an inch thick.
I would Love to have a Tandoor for cooking bread & meat.

 

[Mountain trapper]

When I was in Afghanistan I would stop in a little village and buy flat bread from a local. For safety reasons I would only buy it if I saw them take the bread out of their stone oven. It went great with beanie weenies.
During my stay in the hospital over there I would only eat the flat bread, couldn't stomach their local food.
I think I'd like to make some flat bread too.

 

[OldSchool]

I’m on the bandwagon… gonna have to add making flatbread to my list of talents and capabilities.