really old style living?

jamanda

I've just skimmed through the baby bit of the link. I KNOW I'll never remember to change the water every three months. I may have to bite the bullet and buy some cheap bottles.

And thank you everyone. I'll save those links and read thoroughly asap.

maryb

I know a little bit about this from having to fill water tanks when we go on the boat. It needs to be sodium hypochlorite to sterilise water and unperfumed so don't just use household bleach. You can get big bottles of baby bottle steriliser (which is sodium hypoclorite) very cheaply in Mr T's or Mr S. Also I have read that the stuff doesn't keep for ever so buy a new bottle every now and then and use the old stuff down the loo. It is also worth getting an eye dropper from the chemist to be able to add the right number of drops

jamanda

Maryb, I'll do just that. I was just starting to wonder what bleach I would need.

Thanks

ThriftyFelicity

pink_numbers wrote: »

lovely ladies, would you mind helping a clueless person?

I enjoy bulk buying and stocking up on things, so I have a pretty good pantry now (we converted our 2nd bedroom into a pantry). However, with all this talk of strikes and freezing weather, I've been searching for weaknesses in my pantry and have realised that without eggs, I won't be able to use some of my food, like flour for example.

Now I've never cooked with dried eggs before, in fact I've struggled to find them at decent price! Anyway, what I would love to know is whether cooking/baking with dried eggs are just like doing so with fresh eggs, or is it something that I need to practice beforehand to get things right? We don't eat the egg on its own (scrambled, boiled, etc. as OH doesn't like it), but use a lot for baking cakes, bread (gluten free), scones, pasta, etc. Can I just substitute dried eggs and get on with it?

Thanks for your time in advance

I don't use eggs at all in baking. I've made some excellent [American] muffins without eggs, and the other day made a very yummy courgette loaf (working my way through our courgette mountain). I don't make gluten-free stuff, though.

If you search for gluten-free vegan baking, there will be lots of sites with recipes. Here are a couple to get you started:

Gluten-free vegan baking cheat sheet

Cooking with Dia -- vegan & gluten-free

The first link makes reference to Ener-G egg replacer. The equivalent over here is Orgran No Egg, which you can get at health food shops.

smileyt_2

I have to admit I'm getting a bit scared now.

However, there's no point sticking my head in the sand - it's a case of just having to get on with it.

The main thing I'm scared about is that people will try and get my chickens if there are food shortages

I'm having some work done on the house this week, so won't be around much, if at all, but will check back with you all when the dust has settled (literally!). Keep well!

pink_numbers

ThriftyFelicity wrote: »

I don't use eggs at all in baking. I've made some excellent [American] muffins without eggs, and the other day made a very yummy courgette loaf (working my way through our courgette mountain). I don't make gluten-free stuff, though.

If you search for gluten-free vegan baking, there will be lots of sites with recipes. Here are a couple to get you started:

Gluten-free vegan baking cheat sheet

Cooking with Dia -- vegan & gluten-free

The first link makes reference to Ener-G egg replacer. The equivalent over here is Orgran No Egg, which you can get at health food shops.

oh wow, thank you very much for those links, I'm always looking for new ways to cook gluten free as well, so they will be really handy!

annie123

zippychick wrote: »

Folks

I have asked you very politely to keep this on topic, so this is the final reminder. While there is some very interesting discussion in this thread, it is not staying on the topic of Old Style living and is becoming a daily chat thread.

If it continues to do so,it will be closed and I will ask you to continue your chat in the daily thread or the Arms.

Thanks for your co-operation.:A

Zip

Off topic, sorry zippy, but reading that and looking at your avatar made feel like a kid at school being told off by a teacher :eek: except for the thanks bit of course.
Hope I don't get a detention now .........runs and hides:o
You are right of course, I've wandered into threads and got totally lost when they go off on a tangent.


Back on topic
Old style cuppa and hugs for Ginnyknit;)
Have now caught up with a weeks worth of posts due to changing ISP; confusion over change over dates:mad: Something that 'really old stylers' wouldn't have had to had to worry about.

Mardatha...your daughter/small kitchen/storage
One of DH's aunts lived in the middle of nowhere and had a tiny kitchen too. Hubby made her a temporary outside storage area by her back door which, as she lived in rented, had to be movable.
It was basically a box on its side made of pallets (open at the front) nailed the pallets together, and stuffed the gaps between the pallets with straw, creating insulated walls, floor and ceiling (he added bubble wrap too with a staple gun a few years later) and threw tarpaulin over the lot.
Inside she had plastic storage boxes with lids and kept tins and anything in damp proof packaging and bags of potatoes in their big hessian sacks.
Nothing ever went rusty or moldy, she was good a rotating things, maybe the RV could make her something along those lines?

I once had snooty friend visit and in my living room I has carrier bags full of whoopsied flour and broken biscuits, (I have tiny kitchen too) didn't bother me them sitting there I knew in a few months I'd have used them all.
So to stop comments from said snooty friend (who isn't in my life now, why did I let it bother me!) I put it all in 2 storage boxes, stacked them on each other, put a tray turned upside down in it to give it a flat round look, threw a tablecloth it and put a picture on the top. Looked just like an occasional table.

Just an idea.

ChocClare

Hello chaps, been down with the dreaded lurgy for a couple of days, come back and there's all this talk of winters of discontent :eek:
pink_numbers, I'm sure the links tell you loads of stuff, but I've found (from experience) that 1 tablespoon of soy flour + 1 tablespoon of water is roughly equivalent to one egg when baking cakes. Not quite so light and fluffy, but nearly!

In re water storage - if you haven't got any bottles lying about the place, then Tesco value still water is 17p for 2 litres (as is Asda's smart price one) and it's sealed and will last longer than 3 months

HOWEVER you can kill two birds with one stone here by following my cunning plan (well, not mine, I got it off the web ages ago).

Fill your 2-litre bottle with water from t'tap. Don't fill it quite to the top. Bung it in the freezer.

Eh? Eh? You see? 2 birds with 1 stone - keeps your freezer cold, and you've got water stored. If your power goes off, things go off more slowly with large blocks of ice next to them. I fill up all sizes of bottles and fit them wherever there is space in my freezer - I've even got 250ml ones - as it makes the freezer more efficient and stores water at the same time.

I have got some water stored in my garage (did it as an experiment). It's been there six months, hasn't gone green and tastes fine.

Mind you, I've got a river at the bottom of the garden. I could always boil some of that (and put it through one of DH's SAS kill-all filters and then put some sterilising tablets in it :rotfl: - after I've fished out all the sticklebacks and duck poo...

mardatha

Somebody on a forum once told me how to make one of those water filters Clare. I thought soddit I'll just wait till it rains... :rotfl:

ginnyknit

Funnily enough chocclare I have been looking for soy flour to make fishing bait for Dh - now thats what I call old style - mind you they used to use spam as bait but I told Dh if I can't afford to eat it the fish aint getting any:rotfl: Anyway I have a recipe from a fishing magazine that uses semolina and soy flour and spices and stuff so I must give it a go. then when I couldn't find any soy flour in the shops I thought oh well SR flour should work - but from your post about using it instead of eggs I guess I am wrong. I am going to try it instead of eggs in cakes though. At the moment I use half the quantity of eggs and make the rest up in vinegar for cakes as I hate to use up precious eggs in cakes when they can make so much more.

Sorry if Im waffling but had 3 hours sleep last night and am now about to drop where I sit and wake up with keyboard marks all over my face:o