Cooking and baking on a woodstove

Step 3 Baking Soda Banana Pancake Muffins

Pancakes are an Alaskan staple. I always have pancake mix on hand. I'm a big fan of Krustez baking products, they're inexpensive, come in bulk sizes and they make the best pre-mixed recipes I've found. I like foods that can be stored for long periods if necessary and ones that can be stretched out to feed additional mouths. Last week I noticed I had barely touched this big 10lb bag I bought last September. We lived on pancakes for 3 weeks last May, so we just never made them again after I opened it the first time.

As I buy more of my supplies in bulk I'm trying to get it to where everything I buy I USE regularly. I want my stored goods continually rotated and replaced with fresh stuff. I read it on some guy's survival guide a long time ago, and I've found him to be dead right about one thing:ONLY buy "emergency" food supplies that are part of your regular diet.

I also don't recommend having any illusions about what you'll "learn" to like because you think if you had to you'd learn to eat things that are good for you or whatever. The fact is if we end up living off our back-up supplies it's a lot better emotionally to have things we like... period. And I love bread so much I could live off it, and I think it's almost possible.

Recipe

INGREDIANTS

1 cup white flour, sifted
1/2 cup Krustez Buttermilk Pancake Mix
1 cup instant oats
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp pumpkin spice
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup sugar, brown or white
1 pkg Kellogs Fruit Snacks
dash salt (optional)
12 oz glass instant milk

Makes 12 medium sized muffins.

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven container. Mash bananas in medium sized bowl with pastry cutter (or spoon or fork). Add milk to bananas and stir lightly leaving small chunks of the bananas. Add spices, baking soda. Stir. Sift in a few shakes of flour, stirring every time until it's blended well. Add oatmeal and fruit pkg. Stir. Place 2 heaping tablespoons in each place in a muffin pan. (I got the muffin pan in the pictures at a second hand store for $5. They bend and don't need to be coated with oil or Crisco.) Bake 2 hours or until done over a medium fire, figure about 1 and 1/2 hours over a roaring fire.

OPTIONS

Don't worry about the muffin crumbling, the pancake mix makes it sticky and solid. Leave out the bananas and the fruit pkg and add 1/2 cup raisins and a T molasses. Any fruit should work and I'm going to try meats and veggies next. Maybe an artichoke, onion, garlic fried sausage and cheese version if I ever have the money to try it. Then, well, why not. I might just have to try an English variety that adds liquors.