Cooking Staples - Dried onion soup mix

I use dried onion soup mix in all sorts of my recipes. I buy the boxed kind when it's cheap, but you can also make your own! So here's the recipe for the mix, which in my kitchen is a staple.

3/4 cup dried onion
1/3 cup or 16 cubes beef boullion
1 1/2 tbs. onion powder
1/4 tsp. celery salt
1/4 tsp. sugar
1/8 tsp. white pepper

Mix all ingredients together. You will need to smash up the bullion a bit if you use cubes instead of powdered beef bullion. 5 Tbs of this mix is equivalent to 1 packet of the store-bought mix. You can store it in a large container and measure it as needed, but I prefer to divide it up immediately just because the more powdered ingredients tend to settle and I feel I get a more even mix if I divide it up first.

If you store it in paper packets, you can make larger amounts and store them in a bucket with an oxygen absorber and they will last for years. Just keep in mind if you make substitutes that the life expectancy might change as well :)

Anna.

Hello and welcome!

Hi there, and welcome to Cooking from Storage!

I've been wanting to start this for quite some time. I assume if you've made your way to this site, you are a prepper with some serious food stored up. Either that, or you are learning :)

When I first began learning about prepping and storing up food, one thing that I consistently ran in to was the idea that if I am going to need to start storing up food, I need to be able to also use it up and rotate it. This involves cooking and using up this food which I am not necessarily used to cooking with. For instance, dried beef crumbles, veggies, and whatnot.

My personal view of food storage is that I try to keep away from long-term storage of food in any way that's dependent on devices. So, I tend to do more dehydrating and canning and not so much of the freezing. I also buy freeze-dried fruits and veggies because they have an incredible shelf-life and in some cases you really cannot tell the difference. If the power goes out, and you have a freezer full of food, that is a problem. So you will probably notice that my recipes will really focus on those sorts of foods. The nice thing is that there's a lot of flexibility in substitutions, and so you can easily substitute frozen ground beef for my dried beef crumbles, or frozen broccoli for my freeze-dried.

I have to admit I don't have a huge amount of time to work on this, so this blog will not be updated frequently for the next 9 months or so until I am able to quit my corporate job. In the meantime, at least I have a place to put my experiments and my notes :)

Thanks,

Anna.