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Ie, you're the cook in a disaster area and you have various things of this and that, but you are unsure of what you can make to feed, to keep morale up.
I suppose somewhere out there was a cook, who was a computer programmer in civilian life, who made such an expert system where you type in what you have and it comes back and tells you what you can make, right?
When power is not always available, however, might one have to refer to the paper and ink? Is there such a book out there?
How you want to "enter" ingredients YOU have at home into a paper book? On a computer you can make endless combinations, but in a book?
I noticed there are books with recipes for 2-3-4-5 etc. popular ingredients. But they are "popular" not what you actually have at home...
BTW. There are many websites with recipes by ingredients...
Like this:
http://www.supercook.com/#/recipes>
How you want to "enter" ingredients YOU have into a paper book? On a computer you can make endless combinations, but in a book?
I noticed there are books with recipes for 2-3-4-5 etc. popular ingredients. But they are "popular" not what you actually have at home...
True....I was thinking that maybe a book would be like a taxonomy manual. It, if you have THIS, then you can make THAT. Something that went from the basics to the specifics.
Perhaps with a subsection of what might be substituted for items.
Of course, sometimes, one just learns interesting combinations. For example, for the recipe of Avocado Quick Bread Recipe - Allrecipes.com , it calls for allspice and that is something I never use, have never had in the house. So I have substituted nutmeg and it has resulted in a type of dessert bread.
I suppose one might be able to make that recipe in a disaster area....maybe. There are many situations, however, that aren't necessarily disaster but still limited on resources such as move ins, transfers of stocks from sea to shore before the grocery store, things like that.
It may not be as primitive as the Russian fishing boat crew that ended up at the abandoned ice station where all they had was lots of fuel, lots of cooking oil, flour, and water, but not much else, but still......
The Salvation Army and Red Cross eliminate the need for such a person as well as well as discouraging delivering food to a shelter, since they can't be responsible for what is in it, how it was prepared and the conditions it has been held in.
The Salvation Army and Red Cross eliminate the need for such a person as well as well as discouraging delivering food to a shelter, since they can't be responsible for what is in it, how it was prepared and the conditions it has been held in.
Point noted.....but question not eliminated especially since the cook may be operating in areas that they don't reach or, as previously stated, the situation could apply in other affairs than disasters.
True.... if you have THIS, then you can make THAT. ...
That's the way my recipe files are sorted, by main ingredient, not by the type of dish. I might have desserts, main dish, beverages, and bread under the file called "peaches".
The books don't have recipes in them, just lists of complementary ingredients that you can use to make your own recipes. I own both and have gotten a lot of use out of them.
What you need is a book of basic cooking technique. Like how to combine proteins and vegetables and acids and seasonings to make a dish - no matter what it's called. The problem is how to use the ingredients you have to make something edible, right? So you don't need recipes, you need to know how to cook.
There was an Indian cookbook author who gave classes without recipes and the students were always angry until they got it, but of course her name escapes me now. Maybe someone else remembers?
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What you need is a book of basic cooking technique. Like how to combine proteins and vegetables and acids and seasonings to make a dish - no matter what it's called. The problem is how to use the ingredients you have to make something edible, right? So you don't need recipes, you need to know how to cook.
There was an Indian cookbook author who gave classes without recipes and the students were always angry until they got it, but of course her name escapes me now. Maybe someone else remembers?
The books don't have recipes in them, just lists of complementary ingredients that you can use to make your own recipes. I own both and have gotten a lot of use out of them.
That was what I was going to suggest.
That and experienced cooks can always figure something out based on experience.
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