The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Matter of Facts: A Prepper's Recipe Book

Episode Date: September 8, 2025

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Welcome back to the Matterfax podcast on the Prepar Broadcasting Network. We talk prepping guns and politics every week on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. Go check out our content at MOFpodcast.com on Facebook or Instagram. You can support us via Patreon or by checking out our affiliate partners. I'm your host Phil Ravley, Andrew and Nick are on the other side of the mic, and here's your show. Well, if somebody happens to know a tech priest, I could certainly use one, because right before we went live, my computer went completely freaking haywire. So I'm not sure what I've done to piss off the machine guide, but any ideas, Nick? I mean, did you share your cigar with it lately?

No, because I thought Magic's Mode's and Hoke stayed in the machine and didn't get bathed over it. You have to infuse it with the proper incense alongside the prayer. that's the key okay maybe that's what i goofed up you got to fill up the smoke for the pixies well i know that you know this this old desktop's usually pretty good about behaving itself but every once in a while i i think maybe it needs a cup of coffee poured over it you know just to just to get its mind right a little bit this this desktop next to me is cobbled together out of five broken desktops that i stole that i acquired from work when they were getting rid of them. So, in other words, it's literally possessed. Yes. Outstanding. Well, you've definitely

pissed off the machine gods and I only have a little bit apparently. But anyway, welcome back. It's fine. Welcome back to Matter of fact, podcast. We are a pinnacle of preparedness and professionalism and all those things. One of us is actually a somewhat IT professional. So you must be counting yourself because you're not counting me. Technically, I'm the entire IT department at work, which is terrifying. I was about saying, I don't want to cast any aspersions your way, but that, that alarms me. It should. It should.

I've got several friends that are actual IT professionals and the fact that I'm in charge of an entire company's network, they find that disturbing greatly. See, I have the, I have the misfortune of being the junior IT person on my floor because the real IT guys are always busy so people knock on their door and since I sit like 10 feet away from their front door when they don't answer they come to me nice and they're like phil i know this isn't your job but do you think you can help and unfortunately the answer is usually yes yeah i mean most most okay most i t problems can be solved by well-formatted google searches they really can't or turning it off and turning it back on it's why that's always

step one turning it off and on again is always the first step of IT work and if you don't believe me call for tech support and listen to the very first thing they ask you right after are you sure it's turned on yeah are you sure it's plugged in is usually the first question immediately followed by unplug it yep anyway so take Today we were going to have a nice, even keel, low-key, chill episode about a preparer's recipe book, and we're going to get to that. But first, we got to do admin work, and then we have to complain about politicians. We do. Something's got to pay the bills around here.

It's required. Speaking of paying the bill, as the patrons pay the bills, if you're not one, you should think about becoming one, I can introduce you to a bunch of sociopaths that will alarm you, confuse you, and spend your retirement funds. rapidly um i think we recently convinced somebody to buy a bretta 1301 i think we did yes i i do believe i saw the invoice too so he definitely bought it and i'm only minorly annoyed that they the uh the gen one 1301s went on sale and they're now discounted to just about what i paid for an a 300 yeah i mean i got a screaming deal on my 300 so it it's still like another 300 bucks more than i paid for my 300 so i feel good about the 300?

I'm not upset about my 300. I love that shotgun. And I can't really be upset that I paid full frame for it because, you know, it's a friend of mine's gun shop and every dollar he saves me comes out of him. And that's just, I can't do that to him. And it's a quality firearm. I mean, you can wait and watch

all day for sales, but I say a gun in the hand that you can train with now is better than a gun 300 bucks cheaper in two years. True, true. Anyway, but the patrons pay the bills and Southern Gals merch also pays the bills Pays them and then they pay us a little bit because they do most of the like work

They do all pretty much all the like work yeah I will say this much though Extremely quickly and Southern gals I got to admit I like my one my one concern when we got into I'm supposed to get into bed with them that's a little odd they're married couple that's really odd anyway but you know when we when we entered into this agreement with them one concern was i want to make sure it's a quality product and i have to admit don't do cheap stuff no no they do not and cypress survivalist it's still going on we still have an event november if you're curious there's a link in the show description you can follow to that website you can figure out what's going on in november and if you're not interested

you should be watching for our Get Ready event that we haven't planned yet, but it's probably going to be like first quarter next year. Nice. Anyway, I don't have a banner for it, but can I just ask? Donald Trump. His administration. The DOJ. Yep.

What in the? I mean, so I understand why they're doing it. It's emotional manipulation. Since this just happened today. day. You have to explain what the thing they're trying to do is. So the DOJ, the Trump administration, is talking about banning transgender individuals from owning firearms, which is unconstitutional on its face. Yes. Now, if it on an individual by individual basis, they were adjudicated mentally defective, which there are definitely some of them that probably are. I'm not a mental

health professional. We could ask Eddie, but he's not with us today on short notice. Unless they're individually adjudicated, mentally defective, or have been found guilty of one of the number of violent felonies that we deem loses you, your rights, then this is unconstitutional on its face, end of discussion, as far as I'm concerned. And, and I get, like, this shouldn't be a great shock to anybody that's paid attention to this show or you or me for more than about 15 seconds. But, like, I get really squeamish in two particular instances. First of all, whenever somebody talks about handing the government a power, because I'm not that old, Nick, but I'm old enough to remember that every, you know, like, every time we hand the government power, they're very reluctant to give it up. and it always survives the administration that we gave that power to.

So, you know, something. So far, I've not known them to give up any power ever. Not, not even once. No, I mean,

correct me if I'm wrong, Stuart, let me know, man, what power has the government given up after it's acquired it? Because if anybody would know, it would be him, man,

that guy is just a font of wisdom. Oh, I'm starring Raggle Fragles comic, because we're going to come back to that in just one moment. Yeah. so here's the thing I don't like the idea of giving the government more power

I don't like the idea of giving them the power to unilaterally in broad strokes decide via executive fiat because anytime you talk about the DOJ doing something that's executive fiat it is yeah and I don't like the idea of giving them the power to adjudicate an

entire group of people based on mere membership the like whether or not they are allowed to have something as basic as firearm rights like that makes me incredibly squeamish well the only group that constitutionally we could do that to is communists because according to the 1984 civil rights act communists are not a protected class does that mean we could also give him helicopter rights i believe it means they're not people we'll circle back around to that but anyway but like

that that that's kind of my gripe here is like if you like you said nick if you want to make the argument that, like, a person has been adjudicated mentally defective. They have a documented proclivity towards violent behavior or mental instability. Like, if you want to put an individual person through the existing legal process to have their firearms rights taken from them. And that should be a high bar to clear because it's gun rights. It's supposed to be fundamental. Well, any right in the Bill of Rights, you should have to have a very, elaborate due process to revoke yes but but this administration kind of has a his kind of has some history here of supporting red flag laws and bumpstock bands and pistol brace has

shenanigans and all sorts of things so like this isn't really out of pocket this this isn't even really surprising it just freaking annoys the shit out of me because once again once again we all get together and we we vote based on our individual priorities and everything else and usually we're picking the least smelly turd that is thrown up in front of us to run this freaking country for four years and once again once again the minute the minute somebody gets in office that sits there in front of the cameras and tells everybody with a straight face your gun rights are secure your rights are secure and all the fuds and all the Army's and all the, all the, the big Second Amendment chest beaters go to freaking sleep.

The minute that happens, we went right, we went right back in the situation where I am pissed off one more time because the executive branch decides, now's the time to start restricting gun rights yet again. And on that, on that same, in that same vein, I'll be the first to admit that, because Raggle said it. Ragwell said, I venture to guess that transgenderism would qualify as mentally defective. There's an argument to be made there, but here's the problem, bud, and this is the part that scares me. You could make this exact same argument about military or postmatic stress disorder. You can make this exact same argument about people with clinical anxiety or depression. You could make this exact same argument about anyone that checks himself into a mental health professional for minor counseling. You can, like, this isn't just a.

slippery slope, it's a lake of oil poured down a hill. And once you establish the precedent that you can restrict the rights unilaterally, before there's bad behavior, before there's law broken, before there's an instance of violence, for a group of people, believe me, line up in the Bible, so I'll put my hand on every one of them. Sooner or later, some smart ass is going to get the bright idea to try to push the boundaries a little bit. It'll happen under another Republican administration, everybody goes sleep or it'll happen under a Democrat administration that is rabidly anti-gunned and it won't freaking matter because we didn't fight it now

yep so yeah it's it's entirely unacceptable I mean yeah does is it a mental health condition I think it is but then make but then if it's a mental health condition make the case make the case that's not it's it it doesn't matter if it's a mental health condition or not has a judge or jury adjudicated them mentally defective and not capable of being a functional adult in society. I guess that's kind of what I'm saying when I say make the case. Like make the case that this, this. On an individual by individual basis. Yes. Make the argument. Make the argument because the minute we start painting groups of people with broad brushes and restricting their rights, I'm going to get aggravated because I can see this.

Might be five or 50 years in the future, this will be turned around and used against other people, other groups of undesirables who don't, people who the government doesn't want to have gun rights. We've seen this before, guys. We have. And the worst part of it is it violates the core founding principles of the Western criminal justice system of the presumption of innocence. Yeah. Before you even get to a civil rights discussion or, or an individual rights discussion. It is a violation of the presumption of innocence, which violates the entire basis of our judicial system. Yeah, and understand, given what just happened, given the, given the shooting recently, given the children overreactions are understandable, but I totally and completely understand that emotion.

I understand the frustration. I understand the alarm and I understand the wanting to do something, but I am telling you right here and now that this ain't the thing to support. because if it was, then we would have been supporting every asshole for the last hundred years who tried to restrict AR-15s, 9-millimeter handguns and everything else because taking guns away from everybody would solve crime. And I shouldn't have to sell that idea to you

that that's a bad idea. It doesn't work. What does work, on the other hand, is hardening targets. It does. So, like I keep, I say this way too often because I say it every time this is tragedy, But the minute we start defending children with the same vigor we defend politicians, banks, and private property, then and only then, will I believe a freaking word that comes out of any politician's mouth about giving a shit about life or liberty, I will give the tiniest damn about any of these anti-gun organizations caring about children because you won't defend them with the same things we defend everything else with that matters to us in society.

I don't, I have not looked as deep into this recent shooting as I have others in the past because we haven't had enough time yet. But what little I have seen, this person showed a propensity for violence prior to this. Warning signs. A, a pretty clear series of warning signs that they were wildly mentally unstable and violently so. Yeah. And okay. Once again, nothing was done. Everything was ignored.

It was ignored. Everything was ignored. Supposedly, now I've not seen proof of this, but supposedly they had done other violent criminal acts in the past. Is this starting to sound familiar, Nick? If we enforce the laws that are already on the books, this could have entirely been prevented if we didn't go, oh, but let's just give them another chance. Yeah. Parkland shooting. I mean, look.

I am, at this point, we should freaking make a t-shirt that just says it has like a picture of an FBI guy and was known to the FBI. It is the joke that tells itself at this point because known by the, was known to law enforcement. Yeah. Great. Well, that's great. Do your freaking jobs for a change and stop allowing violent people to exist in society until they commit a horrible act of violence. Like when they, when they skin an animal in the backyard. Even if the police do their job, the DAs are letting these people go.

Because they're a victim class. Because they're one of the chosen ones of the DNC in a lot of these places. And remind me, district attorneys, those are elected officials, aren't they? They are elected officials, yes. It's almost like when you vote freaking ideologues into office that don't want to do their jobs properly, there are consequences for it. There are. And this is the consequence for voting in soft on crime DAs. I get it.

A lot of these people are children. Children do stupid shit all the time. You know what I didn't do as a child, Phil? I didn't skin animals for no reason. I didn't kill people. I didn't make videos threatening to murder lots of people. Yeah, I rode my ATV where I probably shouldn't. Road my dirt bike where I probably shouldn't have.

Definitely where I shouldn't have. Definitely drove a car without having a license. Guess what? I grew up on the boonies. You know, every farm. kid drove the farm truck you know without a license down the road nobody cared because we didn't run into anything we didn't hurt anybody and if you had do you think there would have been consequences oh hell yeah there would have been consequences just saying at the at the very least among my family

members because i wrecked whatever vehicle it was but definitely from the police i'm just saying maybe there's a life lesson there exactly actions have consequences the second you remove these consequences just like you remove the consequences for misbehavior and failing your and failing your assignments in school oh what do we get we get more illiterate people than ever i think there was a there was a study that came out recently about my state illinois 20% of adults in illinois are illiterate they're functionally illiterate not a single child graduating or what was it Not a single child is at grade level in the city of Chicago for reading math or science. Not one.

I'm going to ask you to put a pin in 25 of 35 school districts. We're going to have to put a pin in that for another day. I'll add it to my list. Good. How do we fix schools? The beatings will continue. No, don't beat children. That's not cool.

I mean, it worked for some of us. Well, yeah, some kids don't necessarily learn the way schools are built. I mean, I don't function well in a scholastic environment. I function much better in a hands-on practical environment. That's why I'm a tool and dye maker. That's why I'm not an engineer. Yes, and I babysit adults for a living. Yeah, no, it's not a vibe.

But, you know, I like CNC machines and steel, because when they back, ask me, I can hit him with a hammer. I mean, technically, you could do that with coworkers, but not very... At least once. Yeah, at least once. Rachel, parents don't give their child consequences. That is correct. Education starts in the home.

And if your child isn't properly socialized by eight years old, congratulations you've failed, they never will be. I mean, you have basically until they're six to eight years old. I mean, I might be able to smooth talk. a teacher and coming on this show next week in your absence. Oh, you should do that. We might do. We might have just come up with a topic.

That's a perfect topic. I was asking her the other day, what do you want to talk as an expert? She said she didn't know or didn't care, something to that effect. So now we are going to talk about the school system. And I'm going to see if I can't get a Mrs. Matter of Fax rant wound up. Good, good, good. Yeah, you know, unfortunately, because of the no child left behind. policies of the Bush administration because of the soft on crime policies towards children in

schools, because of the lax standards in schools for these kids. And the more close you get to an inner city, the more lax the standards getting, the more money they spend on the schools. Guess what? You still get worse results. Yeah. It's almost like we can't just inflate the system with enough money to make it work. almost like it's flawed from the getco it is it is flawed from the get go well it has been flawed from the get go for a while the department of education has really done a terrible job at improving education it's been like on it's been on a downward trajectory since regan decided signed in the no fault divorce we're going to need a whole topic on all the things that

republicans have done to piss piss us off i don't know that there's there's a Republican president that hasn't done something that's pissed that that's made then there'll be we could probably go through then there'll be plenty of fertile ground with which to plant angry seeds into i mean lincoln one of one of arguably the most well-regarded precedents was imprisoning uh i believe it was imprisoning newspaper writers and newspaper producers for printing things that he didn't agree with mid war jeff jag what the government but it hasn't fixed the problem they created? Oh, no.

Look, we, we would, if they solved the problem, we would have access budget that we could then put back into actually doing something important. So we have to keep the problem to keep the budget to keep our jobs. Yeah. The last one before we get to topic, raggle frugal, I'm trying like hell to convince my wife to homeschool our kids, but she just won't budge. I will say, private school's an option. I will say that, like, my child is in private school.

It is, um, it is eye-wateringly. expensive yes in the grand scheme of things probably worth it if it if it gives her even a couple percentage point let leg up on her peers it will pay dividends wildly i will just say that like she's so she started the eighth grade this year i believe almost every one of her classes is either advanced placement or the ninth grade level good and she's like rocking a's and b's at this this point. She's, she's a little rock store. But I will say that like, yeah, from my perspective, I totally, I totally get the idea of like one homeschool your kids. I totally get the concept of putting them in private school. If you happen to have a really, really, really, really, really good public school that you want to send them to, like, whatever, the only thing I ever tell parents is is that, like, whatever your decision is regarding school and your children, make damn good ensure that the people educating your children, children are held to account.

So if you start seeing silly shit going on in that school, you need to get involved and you need to get loud and you need to get forceful and you need to get your foot upsomized behind so they understand that you are going to be a pain in their ass until they do their jobs. That's what my mom

did. The very few times I ever had an issue with my daughter's schools, I literally like, stop what I was doing, went to the principal, sat down her office and said, I'm going to sit here until you stop you're doing and address my concern, because Because my kid is here, and as long as she's here, you have to deal with me. And you would be surprised.

Like the old edge, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Oh, my God. Is it the most accurate thing on earth? Sometimes you just have to be the squeaky wheel. You do. You know, you're going to get people calling you a Karen for doing it, but it's your child. Look, if you're not going to advocate for them, no one else will. I've been called much worse by people that met less.

right or meant more i've been called i've been called wildly wildly aggressive things by people that i care a lot more about than school principal yeah anyway to topic 25 minutes in what should have been a quick little five minute you know what the hell are you doing j t no the government's fucking up we can't we cannot let that go by without a solid talk and i can but why why why why can't they just, why can't they just make it four years without doing something that makes me crazy? It is literally impossible for people that want political power to not use political power once they have it.

It's, it's functionally impossible. That's annoying, Nick. Yes. Words of wisdom. Anyway, so a preper's recipe book. So this was a topic we've had kicking around for a while. It's something that I was actually looking forward to doing because in the research of doing this, I intend to try some of these recipes or there's something similar to something I've already baked. So I'm going to try it this way and, you know, just kind of like experiment around with it.

But like, you know, rules of engagement for this for me and Nick was I wasn't like hard level, you know, hard floor on it has to be something that's shelf stable or it has to be something that doesn't involve refrigerated stuff. But I told Nick, I really want to lean. more in that direction of like things that don't require refrigeration once they're cooked or things that have a long shelf life something you could use like i can make this and then i can eat it on for the next several days i can keep it in a pouch or in a pack or things that god forbid we're walking around food or if we're in an extended grid down situation everything refrigerated is gone what could we still cook what could we still bake without milk and eggs and all those things once all the perishable stuff is gone.

Because, like, I have a substantial dry goods storage. I'm sure you do. Most people do. I do. But most people don't have a lot of baking stuff in their dry goods like I do. It's a luxury item for some people. It is a luxury item. But it's also, like, I have a five-gallon bucket of all that stuff because I like to bake.

I like to make stuff. And we're not just going to eat red beans and rice for the rest of our lives. Which is delicious. It is. It is, but... But your wife will be so upset. Yeah, that's why there's baking stuff and chocolate chips and, you know, various other things so that I can placate the two women in my life. So they don't, you know, gut me like a gut me wear my skin like a ton ton.

Because you are going to have to sleep at some point. I mean, that's the theory. But very first thing on the list, hard tag. This was like an easy thing to find. It's something that I intend. tend to try like I've done things I have I have made this I've never made heart tech I've made things similar to it I mean that's that's the thing is that like a lot of these are like one or two ingredients away from stuff I have baked so I'm thinking these aren't that out of pocket

but you know for the uninitiated hard tech it's literally like the world's driest you know heartiest biscuit driest plainest slightly salty biscuit yeah honestly you know what I bet this is very similar to. You remember the mainstay rations that I recommend to everybody because they're vacuum sealed and they're saltwater rated. They're actually marine rations. I have not pop. I have

brought one to the matter of fact, summer camp and we just never got to pop it open. Yeah. But I've talked to people that have eaten them and it sounds a lot like hard tack. The difference being you can bite into a mainstay ration. Do not

attempt to bite into hardtack. if you like teeth that's quitter talk man no man i make one try to bite it okay so who's going to do the biscuit challenge with um hard tech don't just don't it it's so hard guys for those you that don't know hard tech is essentially making a flower brick a flower and water brick that is shelf stable okay it was meant to be put into soups or stews or soaked and softened up to thicken up things. You can bust it up, smash it up in like a mortar and pestle and use it to bread like meats and stuff as well.

It is comparable in texture to, like, imagine an incredibly stale saltine cracker, but 20 times denser. It's like trying to bite into a piece of, of hardwood. I wonder if it would actually like do anything to add some baking powder to this, like to try to get it to air up a little bit.

If you leaven it like that, Phil, you add places for moisture to get to. The whole point behind this being unleavened is there's no moisture in it. There's no moisture to get, there's no place for moisture to get into it easily. So that you, you know, you don't get pests going into it because it's hard for them to eat into. You will get

weevils eventually which case anybody's wondering that's it's like a little maggot from a fly deal that we'll eat into the biscuits eventually but these things i made some and i kept them in just a uh tupperware container one of just a random tupperware container in my pantry at room temperature for two and a half years and thrown into soup they tasted exactly the same wasn't great, but it's food. It probably wasn't great the day you packed it, though, to be perfectly frank. It was not. Like I said, it tasted exactly the same.

It tasted like a brick of flour. We do have to be disciplined for the audio listeners about reading these things, though. Sure. So for those of you who are watching the streams, we have this up on the screen. For those of you who are listening to this, the 600 or 650 or 700 of y'all that are out there that still listen to this as an audio-only podcast, I'm sorry, we'll have to read this. off to you but it's two cups of flour three quarters a cup of water salt to taste you mix it together until it's a not sticky dough so add a little bit of flour add a little bit of water you know roll it back and forth you roll it out to a thickness of half an inch cut it into three inch squares

and then you bake it at 375 for 30 minutes flip it and then 30 more minutes uh there's a thing that you missed in here one thing you have to do is you got to take a fork or sharp knife you've got to poke a bunch of holes in it every half a half bench. You need holes. That way it's the same thickness all the way through, so you got air passage through it so that all of the moisture can get out. You want it to sound like you're ding, ding, when you hit it with a knife, like you're whacking on a piece of hardwood. It should be bone dry when you're done. If it's not, continue baking it. Are you reading Jeff's comment? Yeah, I saw that. So Jeff, go ahead. Jeff said, he made some stored it in an old pant leg, got lost in the

camping gear for 10 years and we're just fine when he found them again. So this is a completely uncontrolled storage. Yeah, that's a nice way of putting it. That's really what it is. And that's what this stuff was made for. This stuff was, occasionally

it was referred to as ship's biscuit. Ships biscuit, sailor biscuit. I mean, yeah, this is put in a wooden barrel or crate with nothing there and they'd just bust the top off the barrel, grab out a bunch of them and hand them out. yeah but that's i figure where we'd start because that's just a good easy place to start

yeah it's you know it's it's one that you have a hard time getting wrong just do not add any fats to it do not add any seasonings to it other than salt i know i have heard that you can get away with some things like cayenne i have not tested that but like i said i have not tested it i don't know how much good cayenne would do, to be perfectly honest. Some people do it so that it spices up a stew, like black pepper, cayenne, salt, and then they throw it in a stew as part of like a thickening agent for the stew, so it adds some other flavors to it as well. But most of them, it's just flour, water, salt, and then bake it till it's a brick.

Yeah. Next on the list, red beans of rice, this should not be any surprise to anybody because I put it on the list, because you're not going to have. have a prepper recipe book without red beans and rice. And if you want to use any other thing there than dry red kidney beans, I mean, that's fine. I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed because you really should be cooking red beans. It's tradition.

It is. But anyway, dry kidney beans, one pound of dry kidney beans, two cups white rice, salt, cayenne, cajan seasoning. If you don't know what Cajun seasoning is, you really should come down here and visit me, and I will elucidate you. But needless to say, you and Tony Sashry should be on a first-name basis. And optional veggies. So like onion- Basically whatever veggies or meat you've got.

Yeah. I mean, optimally, onion bell pepper, celery, garlic, what's in this list and sausage, preferably on-douy sausage,

you know, like as the ultimate would be preferable, but I'll be real honest. Anything fatty will do. Yeah, really and truly. I mean, look, let's call it what it is. This, this recipe was, you know, keeping poor-ass French immigrants in South Louisiana fed for generations.

Yep. It's filling sticks around. It's high protein. It's got decent carbs. And if you do it right, a lot of fat, which is fantastic for survival. Raggle, I will allow slap you mama. But I'm still, this family is a Tony's family. It's like, you know how there's families that are like GMs, GM products and Ford products and Chrysler products?

They're silly because you can make those exact seasoning blends for way cheaper, unlike a car. I'm not going, I'm not going to dignify that with a response. I will send you my Cajun seasoning blend. We'll see how it goes. No. Which, by the way, since we're talking about Cajun seasoning, did you know that Tony Sashrease makes individual packets of Tony? sacheries. Well, that's interesting.

It comes in really handy, so hear me out. I figured this out before I came to Preper Camp several years ago, because, you know, when you take the cardboard tube of Cajun seasoning, the humidity gets to it, it all clumps together, it turns to horrible mess. Well, the individual packets are like the plastic packets, so the Cajun seasoning doesn't get exposed to moisture, and it's like the perfect thing to take camping. Oh. Yes.

That's a great idea. It is a great idea. I was literally walking through the aisles right before Prepper Camp one year and just happened to see it. And I was like, oh, my God. And I bought two boxes. Nice. It's worthwhile to have. Yeah.

But anyway, the only thing in here that's even remotely like, I guess bears pointing out is that with dry kidney beans, not talking about the canned stuff, which is a vibe. I recommend you have lots of canned veggies on the shelf. They cook up faster. Yeah. but dry kidney beans you better soak those bastards overnight like you have pressure cook them yeah but in how many people are going to have a working pressure cooker when we're talking about like fridges are down perishable foods well if if you plan to do any canning you should probably have a pressure canter and that doubles as a pressure cooker that's true that's true

but and if you're going to be stocking 50 60 80 pounds of red beans you should probably have a pressure cooking that you can throw on a Coleman or over a fire. He just need to plan ahead. Soak them beans. True. Dude for the vibes. Fair.

Next up, peanut butter cookies. Now, I'll start by saying, I love me some peanut butter cookies. I have a peanut bird cookie recipe that is like chef's freaking kiss. But the problem is... The problem is... Remind me and I'll send you the recipe. The problem is it involves a lot of butter.

Mm-hmm. And, you know, butter, especially commercial butter, it's got some preservers in it. It'll be okay at room temperature for like a while, but eventually it's going to start to turn. Sure. So I started looking for a peanut butter cookie recipe that did not involve anything you couldn't conceivably store long term. I know from firsthand experience, peanut butter in a reasonably, like, doesn't have to be like air condition, but in a not 100 degree environment. peanut butter is good for well over a year just sitting on the shelf yeah especially unopened yeah well unopened mm-hmm even opens it lasts a disturbingly long time yeah i mean if you get to

the point where the oil is starting to separate off just get in there and whip back together it'll be fine yeah you mix that back up it's you're good when it tastes bad it is bad and if it tastes fine it's it's still fine and you'll know once it goes rancid you'll know immediately but a cup of peanut butter three quarters cup of white sugar quarter cup of flour none of that stuff goes bad quickly um once you've mixed all that together with a couple tablespoons of water for the consistency the instructions here do say to chill the dough before you bake it if you're able to but i say if you can't chill it then at least like get it in the shade you know like don't let it be hot yeah but you bake probably just thin out too much yeah it it it'll

it'll it'll if you start baking it without it being chilled in it from experience it's just going to flatten out and make really really thin large cookies and in that case like these bake instructions say 10 to 12 minutes at 350 you probably want to go like eight minutes if they're if they thin out too much because the thinner they get the faster they'll bake right but it's a quick it's a quick It's a quick, dirty little recipe. You can please the people in your life that have a sweet tooth or like peanut bird cookies and it doesn't require anything that's going to go bad.

You can sub the white sugar in this recipe for honey if you look up the ratio for substituting however much honey for however much sugar. I don't know if that would cause them to spread out more quickly because it's adding more liquid into the mix, but you may just have to balance it out with a little more flour for consistency. Yeah, that'd be an interesting experiment.

Jeff, Jay. Probably tastes pretty great. Pumpkin cookies better be in this list. They're not. I've never had pumpkin cookies. I now desire pumpkin cookies. Remind me later, I don't have a pumpkin cookie recipe, but I do have a brown sugar maple cookie recipe

with homemade maple icing. Oh. it's damn but i'm going to get diabetes oh dude don't don't hang around me too long you will get diabetes between you and my grandma jesus christ i will say that like i've never met a person that can eat more than two of them because they're so like they're not it's aggressive they're not sugar sweet it's the maple syrup yeah but they are super super super super super super rich. Nice. Got a frog in my throat and no more coffee to drink. That's annoying.

That's terrifying. All right. Cornmeal mush. This is the last one from my life. So, two and a half cups of water, cup and a quarter cornmeal, salt, and mix it together in a medium sauce pan, cooking or a medium heat, five, seven minutes, stirring frequently. I had never heard of frying this stuff which I have You can make like a Almost like a hash brown patty out of it And I mean it makes perfect sense

I just have never tried it before But now I really want to try frying cornmeal mush Because I can see that being a vibe Oh it's great But this came about because I was looking for Like I like Okay so I almost cannot bring myself To make red beads to rise without cornbread

It's just the thing understandable, but cornbread involves things that spoil. It does. What? Eggs, butter, milk, cornmeal.

You don't need milk. Do you need milk for cornbread? It's been a long time since I've made cornbread. That reminds me, I need to make cornbread. Give me a second. I'll tell you. Well, if it does require milk, powdered milk, bro.

That's all I bake with, because no one in my household drinks milk. No, you're right. No, it does. One cup of milk and one large egg. I must use powdered milk for mine then. Yeah, I mean, that's at least, that's my recipe, which my cornbread recipe, I will put toe to toe with anybody else's. Do you use, like, cream corn or like sweet corn chunks in there, or do you just use cornmeal? Christ, no.

Why would you? Good, good, good, excellent. dude there are people around me that do that they put cream corn in their in their cornbread to moisten it so it doesn't get all crumbly which is like the best part of cornbread no the only thing i've ever put in my cornbread which was really cool but it had an unintended consequence was one time i i chopped up jalapinos and added that to the cornbread that was exactly in chili it tasted exactly the way you're imagining it did that sounds fantastic Yeah. I mean, I've done string, I've done like a good sharp chatter mixed up in the cornbread for with chili. Because you're going to throw cheese in the chili anyway. Yeah. Yeah. But here's the problem. See, normally, you know with cornbread, like you can leave it out of the counter for like a day or two, it's usually okay, right? Yeah. Well, guess what? When you chop up jalapinos and put it in the cornbread, all the moisture from the jalapenias made all these little pockets for bacteria to grow in the next morning. It was. just mold blooms all over the cornbread. I was so pissed off because I had like a loaf and a half. I had a loaf and a half of

jalapeno cornbread just skunked. But I'd never tried to make it before, so it never even occurred. Then again, I didn't think the corn, well, I didn't think the halopinion cornbread would survive the night. Right. Hmm. Well, that just goes back to prove the point with the hard attack is the more moisture, the more

fats that you add into these things, the faster they're going to degrade. Yeah, I mean, up into a point, and we'll get to that. Yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, that is, that's always going to be the problem is, is that the secret sauce to making the stuff last while is to get the moisture out of it. So just keep that in mind. Absolutely. Now, I know I mentioned Pemison, is it Pemason or Pemkin? I've heard it both ways.

I call it Pemmican, but that's just what I was taught. I'm sure that is probably wrong, and someone will correct me and say Native American to call it Pemason or something. something else doesn't matter this is actually kind of the opposite of where you put so much fat into something that nothing else can live there all right i like where i like where this is going have you ever tried pemmican phil i haven't okay essentially what it is for this in this recipe is you get yourself a pound of lean meat either beef jerky venison chicken anything that you can get almost all the fat out of it by trimming it and then dehydrated into a jerky. And I'm talking like a brittle jerky, not like the Jack Link stuff where it's still flexible.

You want to get all the moisture out of it, trim all the fat off. You want to turn into meat powder. Correct. You want to make that nice hard jerky. Then you want to dice it up really fine and then you want to powder it. Food processor's great for that. Otherwise, mortar and pestle works good. otherwise a cloth bag and a meat tenderizer works pretty good.

Then you're going to need a half a pound of dried berries of your choice. Blueberries, cranberries, choke cherries doesn't matter. Any berry that you can eat and tolerate that you can dry into like a raisin form. And then you want a half a pound of nuts. Pine nuts, cashews, walnuts, any of the long lasting shelf stable nuts is fine. And then you need a pound of rendered fat. so essentially you need a pound of berries and nuts mixed you need a pound of jerky of some kind that's powdered you could probably use fish jerky though it might taste weird with the

with the fat and then you need a pound of tallow or rendered fat and you can you can do that yourself you can render your own fat all it takes is a crock pot or a slow cooker or a pot over a low heat for a very long time. I did a crock pot full of beef tallow the one year and I will warn you everything cloth in your house will smell like rendered beef fat. So that's not a smell that you can deal with for a couple of weeks to months. Do it in the garage or do it outside. And then what you do is so you grind up the meat and the jerky into a rough powder. You do the same to the dried berries and nuts, okay? You mix all your dry ingredients together and you warm up the fat until you got the tallow in like a liquid form. And then you pour that into the bowl, mix it up until you've got it

well incorporated. You want all of the powder to be fully encapsulated in fat. That's going to be your preservative layer. Then you're going to pour that still molten mixture of fat, nuts, fruit, and jerky into like some muffin cups or a sheet pan anywhere that it can cool. and then you're going to jeff yeah don't use fish doesn't go well with legged fats that's kind of what i was thinking then once it cools you can demold it you can take it out of the mold or you can take it out of your pan you can cut it up into bars tallow does not smell horrible it smells delicious my wife is wrong i think your wife might be saying that the house smelling like tallow is horrible i pulled some t-shirts out that i had not worn

in in probably six months after i made tall and the cotton t-shirts did smell vaguely of me of of a beef tallow so it sticks around in the air it is wild i'm not sure if you're aware of this but like most women do not consider the smell of beef tallow to be an aphrodisiag you know phil uh that may be accurate that may be accurate i mean it was delicious your wife is watching i could go ask mine, but I'm pretty sure I know what she's going to comment, because every time I season the cast iron in this house, I have to hear about it. All I know is the homemade tallow fried steaks with mushroom and onion gravy was a big hit. And we required several jars of beef tallow to make that happen. So consequences had to be suffered for delicious steak dinner.

Fair. But this stuff is kind of like a primitive granola bar you can you can store it like you would a granola bar it's just a extremely high protein with a little bit of fats and carbohydrates well a lot of fats and a little bit of carbohydrates that is shelf stable and you can eat it without any further cooking or prep i dig it yeah it's it's fantastic it's it's higher protein than like a lot of the protein bars that you see out there because it's meat and fat. So, I mean, take a stab at what the shelf life is on this? I have heard months to years. I have heard months to years. It depends on your environment. And I don't know that

there is a published shelf life for it. Let me take a look really quick. Six months to one year is what I'm seeing right now from survival sullivan.com. nice but i'm also seeing from new life on a homestead three months to five years depending on how you store it a freezer greater than five years well yeah now i know the meat eater the however you feel about those guys the media guys steve ronella and all them they did an article on it and they recommend vacuum sealing the pemmican in like individual or one day allotments for when they take it out backcountry hunting just to keep it clean and to keep it dry. Yeah.

But obviously the higher temperature environment you're in, the faster that's going to degrade because the fats are going to reliquify at some of the higher temperatures, the colder your climate, the longer it's going to last. Yeah. I mean, that, that seems fair. I mean, it's, it's pretty tasty if you like beef jerky and you like, like, like, trail mix. it tastes like a fattier beef jerky trail max it's kind of got a little bit of an odd mouth feel just because of how fatty it is because the fat kind of coats your mouth a little bit

you get used to it it's not bad we made it actually in boy scouts a few times all right so what's last on this list portable soup this is great granddaddy's bullion okay bullion before pre-made bullion existed. Essentially, what you're going to do is you're going to take 10 pounds of meaty bones. So chicken, beef, lamb, pork, doesn't matter. Anything that you can make a stock out of, you can make portable soup out of. You can even do it with veggies, although it's not as nutritious.

You put 10 pounds of bones in a stock pot. You throw in about two tablespoons of black peppercorns and two teaspoons of salt. cover all that stuff with water in a stock pot just to the top of the bones and then bring it to a boil reduce heat to simmer for about eight or ten hours then you got to allow it to cool you skim off all the heavy chunks of fat that'll form at the top and you set that aside for cooking later and you can render that down more into like a tallow that is also shelf stable strain the stock through a fine sieve or like a cheese cloth, anything that'll catch all those bits, the pieces of flesh, anything like that.

You just want the stock. Then you want to put it back into a wide pot and bring it to a boil, reduce the heat to a simmer, and then simmer it until it is almost a gel. Okay? You're going to reduce a gallon down to about one cup in volume. Oh, wow. Yeah.

Then you're going to pour that out onto like a sheet pan or something, something that work and cool and harden and it'll form almost like a candy that gel will turn into like a hard uh yeah kind of like a candy i guess it'd be the easiest way to describe it then what you do is you either cut that up into one inch by one inch cubes if you can because those one inch by one inch cubes dissolved in a cup of water will make about a cup of broth or a cup of stock and this stuff is shelf stable for I have heard again

months to years and it's basically you're making your own bullion interesting so yeah six months to a year I'm seeing I've never tried making this I will say that like one of the things

one of things we do in this house is that whenever we do anything in the slow cooker we always make sure we salvage some of the stock and we usually like mason jar that up throw it in the freezer and we hang on to that

kind of as a starter for the next batch you could cook that down into a portable soup and then it would be shelf stable I mean that's worth crime because we always save a mason jar or two and then we're always throwing some down the drain so maybe next time that's the thing to do is to just

try it. Cook it down the portable soup. Just make sure you strain it first. I was going to say, if nothing else, strain the crap out of it, put it right back into the same slow cooker and just leave it on low heat for a day. So there's a great YouTube channel that has some of these older recipes that they try them on. He's kind of like a Revolutionary War era reenactor guy called Townsons, T-O-W-N-S-E-N-D-S on YouTube. He has an excellent portable soup video. He shows you step-by-step how to make the whole thing. It does take a considerable amount of time, though. But you basically have homemade bullion,

and it's not nearly as salty as regular bullion. Jeff commented, I cannot personally answer the question of how long it, I believe he's referencing how long it will be shelf-stable, as it never made it that long. But Lewis and Clark buried Pemmican on their way west for their trip back, that is correct. a lot of long hole hunters would do that they would they would cash pemmican with their furs and

stuff for the trip back because it's high energy food and they had all the they had all the meat and fat anyway yeah I mean and and that's really a lot of like what my what provoked me to like kick this topic back up was just the fact that like there's so many of these recipes that like they've been around and a lot of us don't actively practice them but none of this is new stuff like this is this is literally how people used to get ready for the winter a couple of hundred years ago phil have you heard of fat cap canning fat cap canning you can use either butter or tallow or other things yes as a as a lid for a canning jar or not not not not by that name but yes you're talking about where you like you use a jar full of like

tallow to store your meat in and the layer of tallow prevents anything from getting into it or spoiling it yep yes i have so you can do that actually with jams and jellies too you can you can pour a layer of clarified okay so one thing you have to use is either tallow clarified tallow or clarified butter so it's a further refining process of the butter or tallow where you heat it up again and you take only the clear liquid off it basically gets more of the water out of the butter and the fat. It's similar to like making a ghee. And you then pour that clarified butter or clarified tallow over top of, say, your jam jar,

which jam is largely high enough sugar content that bacteria can't grow in it anyway. But you can form an airtight and bug tight seal, basically by putting that layer of fat over top. And then typically what people would do is they would put a cloth over that to protect that fat cap. it's a way to do it without canning lids like the ball canning lids but it requires obviously a lot of fat or a lot of butter yeah which you know to be honest like i kind of feel like that's going to be the one stumble for a lot of these recipes especially when you started talking about having to render tallows just fact that like you know back in the day we had quite frankly we had animal fat lying around all over the place we still do call up your local butcher tell them you're looking for beef fat for rendering tallow uh when we bought our quarter and last time that i got beef fat with the quarter they charged us nothing to to just give me all of the fat alongside there there's great i don't have to throw us away here you go i mean it's basically a waste product to them whatever they don't use in the grinds yeah it is you know i when i go to my local butcher

to get some usually he just charges me a couple of bucks basically to cover his labor of putting it in a bag and handing it to me fair yeah but so the one thing none of us talked about even though you kind of glanced over it i have to give credit to raggle because he's the one that brought it up where did it go Tony's is too salty no he's he's wrong I mean he's cool dude but he's wrong

it's okay to be wrong sometimes I'm wrong all the time there we go beef jerky is the be all and all yeah pemmican is just next level beef jerky yeah

I would just say that like to me I think I think the two takeaways from this episode is first of all like all the recipes I threw in here, I intend to actually try in, in peace time, in good times. When if it goes bad, it's not like I've wasted anything. I can't go to the store and replace. But like I want to try these recipes and I want to practice them. And I feel like some of this stuff, like you have to, you have to kind of work it into your repertoire.

You do. And the other thing I was saying is that like if you lack basic kitchen and baking skills. then you might not consider this your opportunity to start learning those things because it's not really hard youtube university can teach you all this stuff but you did it is a skill set i mean it is it is almost impossible with a with a modern oven to screw up hard tack it is if you if you don't think you can bake start with hard tech because if you got it too dry congratulations you did it correctly. It's pretty hard to over bake that stuff. Even if it ends up really dark and slightly burnt, it doesn't matter. You're not, you're not eating it for the flavor of the

hard tech. You're using it as a calorie add to liquid food stuffs. And insofar as everything else we had on here, like give it a try. None of that, I mean, none of this stuff is rocket surgery. You just, you have to commit yourself to learning it. And especially when you get in some of the baking recipes a little bit of experience with like add a little bit of this add a little bit of that to balance out a recipe it just comes with time yeah just right spelling uh exploring uh bill pong next that'd be a good one too i've not personally made that one what is it it's like a different version of jerky from my understanding how do you have a different version of jerky jerky jerky's just

meat that's been dried it's a i believe you know i'm not sure i'm not entirely sure i haven't done anything with it i've eaten some and it reminded me a lot of jerky but i'm told it's not jerky i think it's just a different tradition of how of doing a smoked dried meat maybe it's more smoked than dried that may be i'll have to google it because now i'm curious it it tastes pretty good when i tried it well i mean it's it's it's meat it's yeah i you're already for some of those raw meat dishes that's not my bag all right well i promised my wife we would not go to nine o'clock tonight okay so you have 26 minutes no oh oh jeff jeff at the bus at the bus buzzer. Bill Tong is thicker, salt dried while hanging.

Okay. Okay. That explains why I enjoyed it. I like salty meats. I mean, you're a heterosexual man. It's true. I feel like Midwest. True, true.

Although, what, what, what heterosexual man doesn't enjoy salted meats? Apparently my vegan co-worker. Are you going to? make me repeat myself he's married with children that that that that's neither here nor there you're still making two assumptions i'm just saying he doesn't he claims he's the vegan i have to believe the guy he treats a hell of a lot of cookies though uh i'm picking on all of our vegans and vegetarians out there y'all do you all just don't don't get stupid with me about my my love of eating things that used to have faces and eyeballs veganism is academically

incorrect. Humans were designed to eat both vegetables and meat. And this is why we can never break the shadow banning because we make comments. Like, I scream about politicians and then we make jokes about vegans and vegetarians.

What else do we do that? You know what? That will be the episode, not next week as Mrs. Matter of Fax is going to sub for you. But the week after, we should have at least a half an hour episode about all the reasons we're shadow banned. We could. I mean, I assume they are large and varied.

And to be honest, to do, I don't care. Oh, but I really want to show graphics and pictures and everything of what happens when someone turns the engagement knob down to zero because you can watch something really cheeky and funny go up, up, up, up, up, up, up, and then the graph turns horizontal, like sharp knee point. Any, in order for leftist ideology to, succeed, they have to have a heavily moderated space. Is that why they got so pissed off when we took Twitter away? That is exactly why. And that's why they made Blue Sky, which is a raging bell-ter fire, I'm told.

Oh, I'm sure it is. Jack Dorsey created it. Twitter was a dumpster fire. Twitter still is a dumpster fire. Yes, but it's a fun dumpster fire now. To find fun. unregulated no it's still heavily regulated not compared to what it was 4chan okay yeah but 4chan is like a cultural 4chan is entirely is well nearly entirely unregulated nearly

entirely well i mean there are there are boards with stated topics they never stay there they never stay on the topic kind of like this show no that's fine Ragglefraggo said hunting and dressing games should be a topic. If you want to come on the show and talk to us about, you know, hunting and dressing game, I know the host. I can make that happen. Yeah. Discussing dressing game without visuals that would probably get us kicked off of one

or both of our two of our three places we're streaming to may be difficult. I wonder if we couldn't get away. with illustrated images. Ah, allergies, terrible. Possible. Anyway, we'll think about it. We'll think about it.

But we're going to go ahead and roll the show out. I promised my wife we wouldn't be on all night. And Nick's wife will probably also appreciate that because I'm sure she would appreciate that. I'm sure she would like to hang out with him more than he would like to hang out with all y'all. Well, yeah. I mean, I did marry her, not you guys. this this yeah yeah there's a joke there but i'm going to leave it alone anyway matter facts podcast is going to go out the door and i will see i will have mrs matter of facts in

the studio next week and only jesus christ knows what we're going to get into so teaching teaching we'll see i demand a topic on what is all wrong with the schools oh and then we'll find out if she's still employed after we have that episode. All right, going out of the door, get out of everybody, behave or don't behave. I mean, you're all the dolej and make your own decisions. Bye. Good night. You know,

I'm going to be able to be. . You're going to be able to be. Thank you.