# What all foods can you make from flour, sugar and salt **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 19, 2004, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-foods-can-you-make-from-flour-sugar-and-salt/245874 "2004-05-19T00:55:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-foods-can-you-make-from-flour-sugar-and-salt/245874/1 "2004-05-19T00:55:57Z")
Assume you have flour, both self rising and non-self rising, sugar and salt at your disposal. And a variety of other spices as well as a stove & oven. What all foods can you make? i would assume pancakes, bread (maybe) and muffins. Anything else? ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-foods-can-you-make-from-flour-sugar-and-salt/245874/2 "2004-05-19T00:59:09Z")
> [@Wesley Clark](#): > > Assume you have flour, both self rising and non-self rising, sugar and salt at your disposal. And a variety of other spices as well as a stove & oven. What all foods can you make? > > i would assume pancakes, bread (maybe) and muffins. Anything else? If you “cheat”, you could probably collect a sourdough culture over time and use that as a leavening agent. Then you could make breads etc… ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-foods-can-you-make-from-flour-sugar-and-salt/245874/3 "2004-05-19T01:08:21Z")
with water… Play dough!!! ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-foods-can-you-make-from-flour-sugar-and-salt/245874/4 "2004-05-19T01:14:32Z")
“How come when you mix water and flour together you get glue … and then you add eggs and sugar and you get cake? Where does the glue go?” —Rita Rudner ---
**Author:** ![peri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@peri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peri)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-foods-can-you-make-from-flour-sugar-and-salt/245874/5 "2004-05-19T02:00:19Z")
Spritz cookies ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-foods-can-you-make-from-flour-sugar-and-salt/245874/6 "2004-05-19T02:18:31Z")
> [@Wesley Clark](#): > > Assume you have flour, both self rising and non-self rising, sugar and salt at your disposal. And a variety of other spices as well as a stove & oven. What all foods can you make? > > i would assume pancakes, bread (maybe) and muffins. Anything else? Even the pancakes might be better if you could add a hypothetical egg. And some yeast would help re. bread. Perhaps you could pretend to be a jolly swagman, or just a very hungry swagman, 🙂 and try “damper”. [http://hjem.get2net.dk/niels\_quist/damper.htm](http://hjem.get2net.dk/niels_quist/damper.htm) > [@](#): > > … > > There is no quantity type recipe for this - you make it up as you go. > > Basically you take a quantity of flour (perhaps 250 - 500 grams) and a pinch of salt. Add to this either enough water to make a dough, or equal quantities of milk and water to make a dough. The dough should be rather firm and not sticky. It may need some kneading too. > > Now take a large sheet of foil and put the dough in the centre. Wrap the dough in the foil and place it under the coals of the fire, or in your oven heated to, at a guess, 200C (make your own experiments) and take the damper out and check occasionally until it’s done. > > … Hmm, I see that site says “milk” too. I bet that is nonsense - surely fresh milk might be tricky to find when getting lost in the outback? Bon appetit, **Wesley Clark** - you have managed to make me feel that my kitchen is remarkably well stock! A delusion, of course, but quite a pleasant one. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Unix\_Geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unix_geek/32/19368_2.png) [@Unix\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unix_Geek)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-foods-can-you-make-from-flour-sugar-and-salt/245874/7 "2004-05-19T02:20:53Z")
It doesn’t really matter. I’m on the South Beach diet and I can’t eat flour or sugar. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![peri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@peri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peri)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-all-foods-can-you-make-from-flour-sugar-and-salt/245874/8 "2004-05-19T02:30:53Z")
Let me retract my previous offering. You need egg and butter to make spritz. i’m hungry and got lost ether for a moment.