How To Make Bread Last Up To Ten Years: Recipe Perfect For Your Stockpile Pantry

For most preppers, canning and preserving food is nothing new. However, very few of you are aware that you can can your bread as well. Yes, you heard correctly. And if stored properly, that bread can last up to ten years!

I know regular bread can be hard enough to master, but hear me out. This is actually easy. And it doesn't taste like stale cardboard! The only difference between this and regular bread is that instead of baking on a tray, you actually bake it right in a canning jar!

Bread in a jarPhoto byRichelleg

The most amazing thing about bread recipes is how adaptable they can be. As such, feel free to use whatever recipe you like, or just change it up by adding or removing items to suit your tastes and the products you have on hand.

Here are some key tips for preparing canned bread before moving on to the recipes.

• Use wide-mouth jars. Once baked, it will make it easier for you to remove the bread without destroying the loaf.
• Make sure your jars are well sanitized before using them. Dust and bacteria are the last things we want in our bread. To keep air out when it's cooked, make sure your jar lids are prepared to lock right away.

Components of Canned Bread

This one is for carrot bread. My recipe yields approximately 6–8 jars, based on jar size.

• Two cups sugar
• One cup of vegetable oil
• Three big eggs
• One teaspoon baking powder
• two-thirds cup water
• two teaspoons of baking soda
• One tablespoon cinnamon
• half a teaspoon salt
• Two cups of grated carrots
• Three cups of flour
• 2/3 cup chocolate, raisins, or almonds (optional)
• One teaspoon vanilla extract

Other Ingredient Options

As previously stated, you may replace the carrots with anything you have on hand, be it a fruit, vegetable, or sauce. You can also add dried fruit, chocolate, or nuts of any kind. Whatever your family and you want.

You can use two cups of peaches, pineapples, canned or cooked pumpkins, shredded apples, mashed bananas, and shredded zucchini.

Shortening is a fantastic replacement for oil and will make your bread last longer.

Before baking, provingPhoto byRichelleg

• 1: Set the oven temperature to 325 degrees.
• 2. Sterilize and grease your jars with butter, nonstick spray, or any other oil of your choosing. I sterilized with soap and hot water, and I greased with coconut oil. Put them on a baking tray to be filled.
• 3. Mix the oil and sugar in a big bowl. Cream in the eggs.
• 4. Add the vanilla extract and water. Next, add the carrots or any other preferred ingredient.
• 5. Combine all the other dry ingredients in a different bowl. Then add it to your wet bowl.
• 6. Finally, add your raisins or nuts and mix. I combined raisins, almonds, and walnuts.
• 7. Fill the jars only halfway with the mixture as you pour it into them. The batter will overflow and your jar won't seal properly if you overfill them.
• 8. Bake them for 45 to 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Mine took roughly fifty minutes to prepare.
• 9. After giving the rim a quick wipe, cover the jar with the lid, tightening it and sealing it.
• 10. Return your jars to the oven and allow them cool all the way through. They seal better in a warm oven.

Fresh out of the oven, or in ten years!Photo byRichelleg

Once they're cool enough to handle, you can enjoy a loaf, then store the rest for later. Bread in a can keeps for five years on a shelf if it is properly sealed. Mine never last that long because they are so good!

You can always create your own jarred dry mix if you don't want to bake a loaf in a jar. All the dry ingredients can be combined and thoroughly mixed, and then you can wait to add the wet components (oil, water, and eggs) until you're ready to use them.

Then, you simply pour the dry mix into a bowl, just like you would with a premade one from the supermarket, combine the wet ingredients, stir, and transfer to an oven pan to bake.

Attributions:

https://melissaknorris.com/no-kneadbreadmixinajarrecipe/

B, A. (2023, March 16). How To Make Bread Last For Up To 5 Years. Ask a Prepper. https://www.askaprepper.com/how-to-make-bread-last-for-up-to-5-years/

P, L. (2022, November 2). Banana Nut Bread Baked in a Jar. Allrecipes. https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/7024/banana-nut-bread-baked-in-a-jar/