40 years ago in northern michigan my mom would make corn meal mush the same way and every once in awile she would but raisins in it. Thank you for bringing back some old memories.....
One of my favorite go to foods is Rice; carried uncooked in, plastic bag lined, Tube Socks; seal the liners and tie the Tube Socks together; this setup can easily be carried in your backpack or around your neck. My favorite way of eat cooked Rice; add Brown Sugar to taste, Tbs Butter and Milk.
Thanks Dave. Really enjoy this series. Intro shots of you hunting and the fire are excellent. As you teach me, I am able to pass this knowledge on to my son. Much thanks. Keep it up!
One tip I learned from an old Mohawk Indian when I was about 12 years old was to mix equal parts of salted butter with brown sugar together in a plastic bag, and to store it in the freezer. I was told to take it with me whenever I ventured out in weather below 20 degrees F, and to eat it when I was feeling weak or tired, I have done this ever since, and it has helped me at least a half dozen times when I needed an energy burst.
Thanks for the vids Dave. Im here in mid west Ohio and me and my buddies watch all your vids and use alot if your teachings. Your a great inspiration to us all. Keep It Up
Dave, After watching your video, I had to come up with my own redetion. So, I took a cup of old fashion oats and ran them thru the blender for a few seconds. I had oat flour to which I added 1/4 cup grits and 1/4 cup farina/ cream of wheat. No I just add 1 tablespoon instant milk and about a third cup of the mix to one cup of hot water, add a little sugar and some cinnimon and I have a quickie breakfast. I have yet to try this on the trail but I believe it shows great promise.
Just some advice for cleaning up some sooty implements. Take a piece of charcoal and a small amount of water and basically scrub the implement down with the charcoal, adding a little water to "grease" it through. IT WORKS WONDERS!
Nice! The only thing I would do different is add a little salt. I will have to give this a try. I do low fat, vegan, starch based diet based on Starch Solution. This would fit right in with that.
Dave there is something else you can do with that. Put a crumbled up biscuit in that cup. Its an old southern thing my Grandmother used to feed me. She'd mix just plain cocoa with water, sweeten it up a bit with sugar. Chocolate syrup on biscuits. You could do that with what you have there, substitute the cocoa with hot choc. Try it, its good.
haha I realized at around 5:30 that you were talking about HOT cereal. Things started making a lot more sense. ;-) I continue to enjoy this whole series, and I hope to get out and try it all sometime. Oh and I really like the "passing on the tribal knowledge" tagline on one of the previous videos. I like what it says about your videos, as exemplified by this series.
Haven't had a chance to check out your store yet, just watching some videos on my cheap so so smartphone, but I was wondering if there is basic wilderness cookbook similar to what you are doing in the videos. Too bad household dvd players can't play computer video formats for learning at home where traveling to the Pathfinder school is out of the question..
The mayans actually used to make a hot drink that was corn meal and chocolate with some chilies. Here is a link to the recipe: it really warms you up on a cool day and fills you up. You could substitute the raw chocolate beans for a raw powdered chocolate. The raw chocolate has endless uses and is full of all kinds of nutrients like manganese, fat, fiber, protein, antioxident, and iron and calcium. It has to be raw chocolate though.
Get a rougher ground cornmeal and you can do that, then take the "cereal" out when it is good and clumped. You can then toast those "cakes" of the "cereal" over the fire and you have a really great treat.
" If a lump of coal falls into the soup, and you cannot conveniently get it out,stir it well in,and it will give the soup a French taste." ~ Jonathan Swift~ Happy Trails, Dave *+*+*+*MERRY CHRISTMAS*+*+*+*
made me some of this last night while at the camp site, and again this morning, you can put it in boiling water 3 to 1 and stir until it gets real think poor out into a pan eat like that or let gel up then fry it up.
dave i don't have a kitchen right now so i gonna give you a idea and let you tell me if it works. dehydrated eggs and instant grits. heat the water and mix and eat i just don't know about the consistancey but it sounds good to me. let me know how it turns out. GOOD JOB MY FRIEND KEEP UP THE GOOD VIDEOS
@bikenutter1 thats what many people it for breakfast in my country. You can also bake bread with ground oat and and some kind of flour. its best with whole grain stuff
@bordinco90 He's showing what the longhunters used and did. Since this is America and not an eastern country corn is a lot more prevalent then wheat so it is a lot easier for them to get a hold of a large amount of corn and process that into flour then it is for them to get wheat (which grows a lot more in the east). At least I think that's the case LOL. Btw corn flour taste WAY better than regular flour :D
I had a old guy make something like this on a scout trip back in the mid 80's who added raisins, cinnamon and a little brown sugar... We cleaned the cups out... And begged for more.
I live less than 3 miles from one ethanol fuel plant and 6 miles from 2 more. if the wind is either straight north or straight south it smells like hot breakfast cereal. it is a good situation when the odors from an industrial plant make you hungry
I call that corn mush :) You can not add the sugar and add salsa instead and it is GREAT! I know on the trail a person doesn't have that, but if you make it at home..try it if you haven't
Two things come to mind that me and my dad tell each other a lot, 1. K.I.S.S.-Keep It Simple Stupid, and the 6 P's-Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance. Great Video by the way.
Hey Dave. I've been meaning to ask this for a while, What do you think about carrying a little alcohol jet stove, such as a penny stove, or a small wood gasifier? Alcohol and the left behind Charcoal have their own versatility. The stoves weigh little and the space these items take up can be offset by storing other items inside them. So I was thinking that it might be useful to carry one or both of these little things.
This is good basic survival food that was used a lot in the US by low income families in the 1930s, 1940s and even the 1950s. It was referred to as just "mush". When I was young and we didn't have anything else to eat, my mother also made cornmeal gravy. Trust me, you DON'T want to eat that. :/ Nice hat Dave. Can you tell me the brand and maybe the place of purchase? Thanks.
@Deriust America does things weird to the rest of the world. Cornflour in the rest of the world is cornflour. in the us, its called corn starch. Cornflour in the usa is generally corn meal. and yes there is a difference between the two. a simple check on the ingredients list should clear it up for you
Depends on the wildlife in your area I suppose. Personally I like to keep any thing food or food-esque away from where I sleep and suspended from a tree. Most of my camping has been done on the west coast and while I can't speak for the east coast I know here there are quite a few bears and they have very good noses and sealed in a container or not they'll smell it. I used to just hang the food but after having a bear rip into my pack for tooth paste I hang anything with an odor.
I gotta try the trick you use to move your bottle out and into the fire.. how tick should the stick be? Seems kinda like it might be alittle bigger chance for it to slip and spil the water? or is it a good trick?
I was wondering what your take on having food in camp is. I've seen people who always insist on suspending a foodbag in a tree well away from camp every nite, others that leave their food in camp. I wanted to know your opinion on it, thanks.
Im little bit off topic right here, but i thought of high rubber boots before, and now i see u wear them, so what would you say:). I mean compared to some leather boots, witch of them are more reliable and what would you choose for what enwironment? Thanks
HHHAAA !! 2nd rule applies around here too ! One hard well learned rule I has was,,never lay out a bed roll in the dark,,I did that once and next morning was bitten head to toe from ants because I had covered a ant nest ,,took nearly 2 weeks to heal up from all those bites ,,so watch out where you spill the sugar -if it warm weather ..Great Video works you share,Thanks
dave i have a question, u ever watched true grit with john wayne he had in his sack what he called corn dodgers what were those and were they carried alot by frontiersmen ? or was that just holywood make believe and second i love that pack u have were are they for sell at
Folks keep calling this grits. I don't think so. Corn flour is not grits. Flour is fine and grits are small chunks of ground white corn. Big difference. Love the grits and that looks good as well. I will have to give it a try.
@KillerFlyingFish...there is going to be a season 3 of dual survival. But Dave will not be a part of it due to family commitment/pathfinder school commitment.
What's that spoon on there? I have a few, but that's the first one I saw that is just a short regular spoon. I guess someone COULD always use the spoon from their house, maybe bending the handle first to shorten it.
SIMPLICITY!! Using the ole KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) system works everytime! I kinda thought you might stir in a bit of that Pemmican you made the other day? Hmmmm? Five years till I retire then I'm growing a thick woolybooger beard like yours! Lol
The 5 sec rule .. love it lol i say that all the time and watch people get grossed out or tell me i'm disgusting lol .. i look at it say fine more food for me. people in the use throw away 60% of all food produced in this country but its going to take a more then a little dirt to make me one of those sheep. wonderful video brother. if you had your goat you could fry drips of it on a rock and make corn flakes.
40 years ago in northern michigan my mom would make corn meal mush the same way and every once in awile she would but raisins in it. Thank you for bringing back some old memories.....
The longer I've been watching your channel the more I like it. There's so much knowledge in here I love it.
One of my favorite go to foods is Rice; carried uncooked in, plastic bag lined, Tube Socks; seal the liners and tie the Tube Socks together; this setup can easily be carried in your backpack or around your neck. My favorite way of eat cooked Rice; add Brown Sugar to taste, Tbs Butter and Milk.
Thanks Dave. Really enjoy this series. Intro shots of you hunting and the fire are excellent. As you teach me, I am able to pass this knowledge on to my son. Much thanks. Keep it up!
One tip I learned from an old Mohawk Indian when I was about 12 years old was to mix equal parts of salted butter with brown sugar together in a plastic bag, and to store it in the freezer. I was told to take it with me whenever I ventured out in weather below 20 degrees F, and to eat it when I was feeling weak or tired, I have done this ever since, and it has helped me at least a half dozen times when I needed an energy burst.
Grits! I love it! Something else some of us do 'round here is mix some sweet corn bread and milk together...great eatin'! Please keep 'Em comin'!
i dont know what's been up with you lately dave, but you've put out some of your best videos ever!
Thanks for the vids Dave. Im here in mid west Ohio and me and my buddies watch all your vids and use alot if your teachings. Your a great inspiration to us all. Keep It Up
"five second Rule" - love it.Looks good Dave. Love the fork branch pour trick. It's the simple stuff...
Loved the show man, but damn its good to see YOU posting all the vids again
Great idea Dave. These series of videos are really great. Thanks for sharing...
Simplicity at it's best!
Hi Dave, ...great reflector wall! Cool, enjoy your meal, ...and thanks for so much videos! Have a great and blessed weekend, Sepp
Dave,
After watching your video, I had to come up with my own redetion.
So, I took a cup of old fashion oats and ran them thru the blender for a few seconds. I had oat flour to which I added 1/4 cup grits and 1/4 cup farina/ cream of wheat.
No I just add 1 tablespoon instant milk and about a third cup of the mix to one cup of hot water, add a little sugar and some cinnimon and I have a quickie breakfast.
I have yet to try this on the trail but I believe it shows great promise.
Ha ha, just admiring your 'winter coat' too Mr C!
Thanks for another good vid.
Stay warm and well.
Dave... my Grandaddy called that 'mush'... He grew up on it! Dang... I miss him...
Just some advice for cleaning up some sooty implements. Take a piece of charcoal and a small amount of water and basically scrub the implement down with the charcoal, adding a little water to "grease" it through.
IT WORKS WONDERS!
It call porridge
Sweet condensed milk
Evaporated milk
Vanilla
Nutmeg
Cinnamon
Salt
Sugar
Just sweeting to your likeness
Good breakfast meal
💯
Cool idea on pouring the boiling water. Love learning new things!
@ramsessilent of course, I'm sure there are endless recipes, I just like watching Dave's cooking segments!
Looks tasty, adding this to my pack. Keep up the hard work brother!
Nice! The only thing I would do different is add a little salt. I will have to give this a try. I do low fat, vegan, starch based diet based on Starch Solution. This would fit right in with that.
wow, these intros to the videos are getting better
Thanks Dave. You sir are awesome! I cannot wait to get into the woods, and try these for myself. Also I cannot wait to see dual survival 3!
Dave really cool trick with the cordage and the bottle and the 5 sec rule rocks great video thanks
You're gettin' pretty wooly there Dave. Nice video! Simplicity!
great idea Dave on pulling out your container from the fire.
Dave, I really appreciate that you wear a cross while making these videos.
i have eaten this for years in place of grits great vid. yet another use for corn flour/mill good job
Dave there is something else you can do with that. Put a crumbled up biscuit in that cup. Its an old southern thing my Grandmother used to feed me. She'd mix just plain cocoa with water, sweeten it up a bit with sugar. Chocolate syrup on biscuits. You could do that with what you have there, substitute the cocoa with hot choc. Try it, its good.
haha I realized at around 5:30 that you were talking about HOT cereal. Things started making a lot more sense. ;-) I continue to enjoy this whole series, and I hope to get out and try it all sometime. Oh and I really like the "passing on the tribal knowledge" tagline on one of the previous videos. I like what it says about your videos, as exemplified by this series.
i watched your show just this morning and when i went to the store i got myself some corn flour and brown sugar. it just looked tasty.
Haven't had a chance to check out your store yet, just watching some videos on my cheap so so smartphone, but I was wondering if there is basic wilderness cookbook similar to what you are doing in the videos.
Too bad household dvd players can't play computer video formats for learning at home where traveling to the Pathfinder school is out of the question..
Great use of that toggle and forked stick. So simple.
The mayans actually used to make a hot drink that was corn meal and chocolate with some chilies. Here is a link to the recipe: it really warms you up on a cool day and fills you up. You could substitute the raw chocolate beans for a raw powdered chocolate. The raw chocolate has endless uses and is full of all kinds of nutrients like manganese, fat, fiber, protein, antioxident, and iron and calcium. It has to be raw chocolate though.
Get a rougher ground cornmeal and you can do that, then take the "cereal" out when it is good and clumped. You can then toast those "cakes" of the "cereal" over the fire and you have a really great treat.
Love it Dave, been eating it since a child we call it Atole. I make it with maza harina.
" If a lump of coal falls into the soup, and you cannot conveniently get it out,stir it well in,and it will give the soup a French taste."
~ Jonathan Swift~
Happy Trails, Dave
*+*+*+*MERRY CHRISTMAS*+*+*+*
made me some of this last night while at the camp site, and again this morning, you can put it in boiling water 3 to 1 and stir until it gets real think poor out into a pan eat like that or let gel up then fry it up.
dave i don't have a kitchen right now so i gonna give you a idea and let you tell me if it works. dehydrated eggs and instant grits. heat the water and mix and eat i just don't know about the consistancey but it sounds good to me. let me know how it turns out.
GOOD JOB MY FRIEND KEEP UP THE GOOD VIDEOS
@bikenutter1
thats what many people it for breakfast in my country.
You can also bake bread with ground oat and and some kind of flour. its best with whole grain stuff
@bordinco90 He's showing what the longhunters used and did. Since this is America and not an eastern country corn is a lot more prevalent then wheat so it is a lot easier for them to get a hold of a large amount of corn and process that into flour then it is for them to get wheat (which grows a lot more in the east). At least I think that's the case LOL.
Btw corn flour taste WAY better than regular flour :D
Hi Dave just checkin out the now series, looking good,so is the beard!, is the coat wool?
when you said "five second rule", it made me chuckle.
Grits, freeze dried sausage crumbles, salt and pepper. Prepare the same way you just did the cereal. That will stick to your ribs. Yum yum.
dave will go down in history as the next nesmuk like if you agree!
The beard is getting pretty epic, Dave.
I had a old guy make something like this on a scout trip back in the mid 80's who added raisins, cinnamon and a little brown sugar... We cleaned the cups out... And begged for more.
Dave making an atole! Adding chocolate is a champurrado. Awesome vid!
I live less than 3 miles from one ethanol fuel plant and 6 miles from 2 more. if the wind is either straight north or straight south it smells like hot breakfast cereal. it is a good situation when the odors from an industrial plant make you hungry
Came here after watching Gordon ramsay, and I must say, Dave is a MUCH better cook lol
I call that corn mush :) You can not add the sugar and add salsa instead and it is GREAT! I know on the trail a person doesn't have that, but if you make it at home..try it if you haven't
the way you poured the water reminds me of how blacksmiths and smelters pour molten medal out of their crucible
smart move
I knew you looked and sounded familiar, lol. I always use to watch Dual Survival. Definitely subbing up.
This should be a curriculum in school!.
Great size carry axe. Is tarp canvas or synthetic? Corn mush is ok and your method mix is great. thanks
Two things come to mind that me and my dad tell each other a lot, 1. K.I.S.S.-Keep It Simple Stupid, and the 6 P's-Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.
Great Video by the way.
that's pretty slick idea using that forked branch to tilt your cup, brother
Hey Dave. I've been meaning to ask this for a while, What do you think about carrying a little alcohol jet stove, such as a penny stove, or a small wood gasifier?
Alcohol and the left behind Charcoal have their own versatility. The stoves weigh little and the space these items take up can be offset by storing other items inside them. So I was thinking that it might be useful to carry one or both of these little things.
i like that! i use oatmeal myself but cool way to use corn flower....
5 sec rule!
This is good basic survival food that was used a lot in the US by low income families in the 1930s, 1940s and even the 1950s. It was referred to as just "mush". When I was young and we didn't have anything else to eat, my mother also made cornmeal gravy. Trust me, you DON'T want to eat that. :/
Nice hat Dave. Can you tell me the brand and maybe the place of purchase? Thanks.
Sweet beard, bro
@Deriust America does things weird to the rest of the world. Cornflour in the rest of the world is cornflour. in the us, its called corn starch. Cornflour in the usa is generally corn meal. and yes there is a difference between the two. a simple check on the ingredients list should clear it up for you
Depends on the wildlife in your area I suppose. Personally I like to keep any thing food or food-esque away from where I sleep and suspended from a tree. Most of my camping has been done on the west coast and while I can't speak for the east coast I know here there are quite a few bears and they have very good noses and sealed in a container or not they'll smell it.
I used to just hang the food but after having a bear rip into my pack for tooth paste I hang anything with an odor.
Such a homely meal
dave...got my sound fixed........thanks for sharing...spiritpipeman
I gotta try the trick you use to move your bottle out and into the fire.. how tick should the stick be? Seems kinda like it might be alittle bigger chance for it to slip and spil the water? or is it a good trick?
Thanks and take care.
that "five second rule" part made me LOL.
I'm in the good part of youtube again, awesome video dude.
Awesome vid, thumbs up. :) Down here in SC we'd just call in Grits though. :p
Dave...you post videos daily. Take a break and enjoy the family.
loved the video , i was actually hoping you would say what was in your pack so it was awesome , tryin to get the single shot 12 ga for christmas
great vid as usual bro
great video! was that a grouse you shot at the begining?
Great vid, Dave! That's three/four different recipes/food items with cornmeal you've made so far. Got any more?
@jdouglasfisher Knowledge counts for more, and improvisation counts a lot too, but your point is well made all the same.
I swear some people must see a video like this and not even watch it but push dislike...how could you dislike a informative video like this???
Outstanding
Great videos.
Grea video as always Dave buddy :)
@McHenryAnge the canteen shop sells them or go to the pathfinder school website
they sell them .....
I was wondering what your take on having food in camp is. I've seen people who always insist on suspending a foodbag in a tree well away from camp every nite, others that leave their food in camp. I wanted to know your opinion on it, thanks.
Im little bit off topic right here, but i thought of high rubber boots before, and now i see u wear them, so what would you say:). I mean compared to some leather boots, witch of them are more reliable and what would you choose for what enwironment? Thanks
HHHAAA !! 2nd rule applies around here too ! One hard well learned rule I has was,,never lay out a bed roll in the dark,,I did that once and next morning was bitten head to toe from ants because I had covered a ant nest ,,took nearly 2 weeks to heal up from all those bites ,,so watch out where you spill the sugar -if it warm weather ..Great Video works you share,Thanks
dave i have a question, u ever watched true grit with john wayne he had in his sack what he called corn dodgers what were those and were they carried alot by frontiersmen ? or was that just holywood make believe and second i love that pack u have were are they for sell at
hey you said you can make a lot of stuff with corn flour , can you list them ?!
Folks keep calling this grits. I don't think so. Corn flour is not grits. Flour is fine and grits are small chunks of ground white corn. Big difference. Love the grits and that looks good as well. I will have to give it a try.
Great videos! You should do an episode on moonshining!
@KillerFlyingFish...there is going to be a season 3 of dual survival. But Dave will not be a part of it due to family commitment/pathfinder school commitment.
that should be the corn flour cereal commercial!
What's that spoon on there? I have a few, but that's the first one I saw that is just a short regular spoon. I guess someone COULD always use the spoon from their house, maybe bending the handle first to shorten it.
SIMPLICITY!! Using the ole KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) system works everytime! I kinda thought you might stir in a bit of that Pemmican you made the other day? Hmmmm? Five years till I retire then I'm growing a thick woolybooger beard like yours! Lol
Excellent series, i must have pushed like 3 times during this one,lol
Hey Dave, you should read Mark Baker's book A Pilgrim's Journey if you haven't already.
5 second rule haha love it!
I always like mine watery less i have to drink during the day and the soupyness keeps me warmer or makes me feel warmer.
5 second rule hahah your the man dave
The 5 sec rule .. love it lol i say that all the time and watch people get grossed out or tell me i'm disgusting lol .. i look at it say fine more food for me. people in the use throw away 60% of all food produced in this country but its going to take a more then a little dirt to make me one of those sheep. wonderful video brother. if you had your goat you could fry drips of it on a rock and make corn flakes.