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Anyone had some? It looks interesting enough that I think I'll try it next time I go backpacking.
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This looks like the damper of Oz/NZ fame.
While the wikipedia entry for damper says it's usually cooked on coals, I've DEFINITELY cooked it wrapped around a green stick exactly the same as the instructions for bannock. Same recipe anyway (minimally; flour water baking soda).
It's good stuff, except for the part that you need to be under circumstances where you can responsibly light a wood fire.Comment
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Pemmican appears to be ideal backpacking food too.
Hard to believe that the early antarctic expeditions lived off of this stuff for 6 months at a time.
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I'm not really that useful for tramping food advice, because I tend to be a Vegan. That actually just means my ideas for food are a bit WEIRD.
One extremely interesting idea, I think, is sprouts. Sprouting grain/seeds makes it so much more nutritious and palatable! Even just soaking can do the trick, to liberate a whole lot of vitamins, protein and carbohydrates.
And one of the things you can miss most when tramping, is FRESH food, juicy, sweet, green. And hey....
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Note there's no need to grow them like into BIG sprouts, I'm thinking you could just soak them overnight, empty out of the water in the morning, carry them around, and either 12 or 24 hours later, eat them. While at that point they wont really have sprouted, and may barely have a root appear, the important nutritional changes have already happened (ie it has become a living plant) - so they are palatable and easily digestible.
The only thing is, this probably wont work at high temperatures (probably 30C+) (You'll get alcoholic fermentation or it'll go off!) or at low winter temperatures (<10C), unless you're willing to use body heat somehow.
Bear in mind, this is probably exactly the kind of foods the neolithic people used! This isn't (just) new-age hippy stuff. To put it another way; this is the kind of thing, through which beer was discovered. People soaked their grains so they tasted good and didn't die from vitamin deficiency.
Very healthy, very cheap, easy to prepare, easy to eat.Comment
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