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What would your contribution be for a book put together to restart a a civilization? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by qyron@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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The title is a bit over dramatic but, per the title, if you could contribute with one piece of knowledge to a book that every single individual should learn from in order to kickstart a civilization, what would be yours?

My personal choice would be the process of soap making, from scratch.

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I would need to do a lot of adjusting for being made over a fire and do a whole lot of temperature, time, pot used, and ingredient amount/type used, but I could provide a cheesy tuna noodle casserole recipe.

Obviously this restarted civilization probably wouldn't have canned goods, an oven, a stove, a 9x13 glass pan, a clock for timing, and spray oil, so I would have to adjust the recipe to account for all of that before submitting it for that type of book.

Though, what I assume would be the hardest ingredient to come by would definitely be the cream of mushroom and cream of chicken.

Edit:

Looked up what exactly goes into cream of mushroom and it still probably would be the hardest to get due to the diversity of ingredients depending on the recipe.

[–] schmorpel@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

'If you have no store-bought cream, hunted and foraged is fine'

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There are two types of cream there I was/am not aware of...

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I should have been a bit more specific because the ones I use are pretty much just canned condensed soup mix.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cream of mushrooms and cream of chicken.

What are those?

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're soups but I have only ever seen them as condensed canned soups. They're one of those ingredients I've used plenty of times but couldn't really tell you much more about them.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

So, its just chicken and mushroom soup. I was picturing specially flavoured cream (as in whisking cream).