Today many people use microwaves or other modern conveniences of today as we have no time to do anything but work. Having restaurants, frozen dinners, packaged meals and Ramon Noodles we have almost lost a dying art of how to surviving prior to technology. If you had to survive without electricity, gas or modern conveniences of today could you do it? Americans are tough people and we would slowly adjust but it would be very difficult for most people as we are also spoiled.
Cooking on a Barbecue, grill or having a cookout during a camping trip is the closest to keeping the art of cooking on an open fire or hearth alive. We decided to take a survival camping trip which meant no modern conveniences like packaged foods, like potato chips, snacks which included no charcoals to even start a fire. Salt, flour, sugar, pepper, butter, Crisco, fresh vegetables and condiments along with utensils for cooking was all we all we took along. We did take some packaged meat and used ice to keep it cold but this was all.
We spent most of the time fishing for meat and preparing food from scratch. My husband was able to bake biscuits over a wood fire and they really were delicious. I made the biscuits using couple hand fulls of flour, a pinch of salt, a smidgen of baking powder and cold water until desired consistency was obtained. By following my Grandmother's recipe which had been past down for generations I gained a real understanding about what it was like to live during these times.
How they found time to do much more than meeting their basic needs is hard to imagine. Take this challenge sometime and see how long you can survive without using any modern convenience of today. It really will make you grateful for technology and you may learn something. There is a great need for the family to work as a team to accomplish supplying basic needs just for one day. You could learn that this can be fun and a challenging hobby that could bring your family closer together. By sharing what it was like to live in the days before modern technology we keep the art of how much work it takes to just survive.
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