Ash bread or Fire bread is a recipe that utilizes the warm ash bed of your cooking fire to bake some filling and stomach-settling bread. For a simple tutorial on how to make this bread, take a look below.

In a survival situation, you have to make the best with what you’ve got.
Today I’ll take you back to the olden days and show you a Civil War recipe that needs only a couple of ingredients and limited resources.
I have to warn you, this isn’t a gourmet 5-star meal but in a crisis when food is scarce and you need to stretch your supplies to their limits, you will be happy to know how to prepare it.

You will need:
flour
salt
water
ash bed
mixing bowl
peel/oven spatula

Preparing the Dough:
Pour some flour into the bowl. Add salt.
Mix well.
Add a small amount of water.
Mix to make a stiff paste.

True Fire Cake Method
If you don’t have a board or leaves to cook with, you can put the patty right into the ashes. You will get some charring on the outside of the patty. We can call this the survival method of cooking fire cakes.
The process is straightforward. Place the patty on hot coals.
Then set some hot coals on top as well. Do so gently and carefully.
Take note of where you put the dough and try not to bury it in the coals so that you can see if it’s cooked.
You can also smell the patty when it’s cooking.
When it’s ready, remove it from the coals and put it on a plate.
Take off the remaining coals and blow off the dust.

You may be thinking “why would I want to cook my bread in the ashes of the fire? Won't it be inedible?” In actuality, the charcoal in the ashes will actually help to settle an upset stomach and do a little to remove toxins that may be moving through your digestive tract.

Essentially, on top of being a filling bread to stretch the other rations you have, this ash bread will help you keep a healthy intestinal system and may make you feel better if you've been under the weather. Pretty cool, huh?

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