A Slice of Texas – Sharing homesteading, home cooking, gardening, travel, living history, food storage and practical preparedness through firsthand experience.
The Texas freeze of 2021 changed the way I think about winter preparedness.
We saw frozen pipes, icicles inside homes and terrible water damage after everything thawed. Some aquarium owners also lost entire tanks of tropical fish they had cared for for years. When the grid went down, aquarium heaters, filters and air pumps went down with it.
Flour is one of those basic foods that's cheap, useful and easy to take for granted—until suddenly everyone wants it at the same time.
When the bread is gone, the power is out, or you're down to the basics in the pantry, you can still make something warm and bread-like with flour, water and salt.
