rationing WW1 recipe Conservation Waffles

[Old GoatParticipant]

So if you are planting wheat for your family keep in mind it takes about 30 pounds of seed in moderate soil and 1/4 acres of land to feed a family of 5. You not going to be able to buy fertilizer.

Conservation Waffles

1 cup white corn meal

2 cups boiled water

1 cup barley flour

½ cup buckwheat

1 teaspoon salt

3 ½ teaspoons baking powder

1 ½ cup milk

¼ cup melted

¼ cup sugar

3 eggs

Add meal to boiling water slowly and cook in a double boiler 20 minutes. Sift together the flours and the salt, baking powder and sugar.

Add alternately to corn meal mush with milk stirring constantly; all melted butter and egg yolks beaten until thick and lemon tinted. The cut and fold in egg whites beaten until stiff. Cook in a hot well oiled waffle iron

 

[OldMt WomanParticipant]

I’d get my fertilizer from my old goat 😉  and ducks’ straw, etc.  Composted.  Sadly, at these altitudes, on a really good summer, the only grains we could manage would be buckwheat and mebbe oats. And I’ve TRIED for years to find out how to get the hulls off of oats.  The buckwheat would have that tannin coating [I think?] and barley?  It has an inedible hull too.  Hulless oats is a solution but hand-harvesting is necessary, I hear.  Cuz it rattles off the stalk too easily.

I think wheat is just too long a growing season for us up here.  And I haven’t got a 1/4 th of an acre that’s even close to being flat!  Nor do we have “soil”…only broken bits of granite, mostly.  This is not an idea homesteading/survival place at all.

OldMtWoman  ….partial solution sits in buckets..

[Old GoatParticipant]

Yeah my son looked into Himalayin wheat because of the altitude here and we also have granite soils so  at 8000 feet its harder to get things to grow. Unfortunately most people who just have goats and fowl aren’t going to have enough compost to do much more than their gardens.

We are looking at finding another place at a lower elevation and better soil. We store more because of this too

[grammy emParticipant]

there is a short season hull-less barley, called black nile (tho it is a deep purple color). tasty in stews.

[Old GoatParticipant]

Thanks granny em I’ll research that one!

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