Flask cooking

hilarys

Still need to experiment some more. Can’t do that tomorrow though as I’m out all day, will have to be Friday. It must be wonderful to keep chickens. I live in a flat so I can’t do anything like that. We have a lot of foxes around here as well, and they’re clever. I recently saw one catch a squirrel.

Pixiekazza

My Mum used to cook dried beans overnight using a flask. Boil up in the sospan to whatever length to kill off toxins (e.g. kidney beans), then into the flask and leave in the boiled water overnight. Then freeze into portions. 

hilarys

What a brilliant idea! I’ll try that. I was sure that there was more potential to this practice. We have to rediscover more old practices to combat this fuel crisis - and the global warming crisis - which is what concerned us most before the current situation. The combination of beans and other pulses with brown rice or wholewheat pasta would make a complete protein, so potentially a complete meal could be made this way. Many thanks for that.

peewhyeff

Many years ago I used to do mushy peas in a flask overnight. Using the dried peas that came in a box with a tablet of bicarb, I discovered quite by accident that by morning they were cooked.    I also recall making home made yogurt in a flask.  I had almost forgotten these until I read this thread.

hilarys

That’s very interesting. I’m not at all familiar with those peas you mention, but I have a vague memory that it was possible to make yoghurt that way. I’ll have to Google those items!

sammyjammy

hilarys said:

That’s very interesting. I’m not at all familiar with those peas you mention, but I have a vague memory that it was possible to make yoghurt that way. I’ll have to Google those items!

Yogurt is easy, powdered milk, UHT full cream milk and a  small pot plain live yogurt (once you've made it once you can use some of the yogurt you've made as your starter.  Make sure you scald the flask with boiled water first.

The more powdered milk the thicker your yogurt will be.

hilarys

Oh thanks. I must try that.