Food Powders Why and What I Like to Make and Use

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Foreign Heidi here from Rain Country God is good all the time and I’m here today to talk about food powders and I’m talking about the kind that you make yourself so I’ll be covering some on how you can make them a little bit on how you can use

Them though I do have specific videos on a lot of these various ones that I will try to link to as many as I can down below or what I can remember or you can do a search for by simply typing in the channel name if you’re on Rumble it’s

Rain Country Homestead all one word or if you’re on YouTube it’s just rain country and then put in the what it is that you’re looking for so if you’re looking for the one on horseradish you type in ring country or Rain Country Homestead and then put horseradish and

You should be able to pull that up so anyway let me just run over at least that which I have out here I didn’t pull the horseradish out but I do have the yogurt this is plain and strawberry yogurt I have cream cheese powder down

Here I’m still going to do a more uh in-depth video on making this rhubarb powder raw eggs pumpkin cheddar cheese Apple zucchini this is just another jar of raw eggs that’s from my own chickens right here these three I set aside because these are ones I specifically made to

Use as baby food just as add water mix it up but it’s green beans beef powder and this is from beef that I canned up and then I dehydrated and turned into a powder and then this is carrot and orange right here mixed together because Jace really liked that though he’s kind

Of moving on from that stage and he’s on to solid foods now of course so this video is really more an answer to a question I get on how do I make my food powders what do I use well it really depends on how much I’m doing at a time

So if I’m just doing a small amount like this little bit here of the strawberry yogurt then what I do is I just use a coffee grinder that I have that is specifically for making food powders I have another one just like this for grinding coffee beans though anymore I

Use my blender because I just do a whole bunch at a time and I will go ahead and link to this down below and I the thing I like about this particular one is that this part comes out to make it easy to clean that up not the one I had before

That that little bold and come out so it was a little trickier washing it and trying to keep from getting water inside the machine but then when I’m doing bigger amounts like I don’t I don’t have the mashed potato powder out here that’s one of the other things I didn’t grab

But like these eggs when I’m doing this yes I use my blender because it’s a lot easier to use a blender when you’re doing larger amounts but when I’m just doing want just a little bit or I’m just experimenting the coffee grinder is best because you can’t blend up powders very

Well if you in a blender if you’ve only got a tiny bit in there it works best when you’re doing larger amounts now I would assume that if you have a Grain Mill and you have it set on fine that will work for anything that doesn’t have

A lot of fat or sugar in it so I wouldn’t recommend it for making a cheddar cheese powder or an egg powder or even any of your like your cream cheese your yogurts your whole milk anything that has naturally has a lot of fat in it and again anything has a lot

That has sugar in it is not going to powder up really well anyway some will powder up decently but I certainly wouldn’t put that through a Grain Mill but you might be able to get away with it with your rhubarb your zucchini I personally wouldn’t use my Grain Mill

For that I would I try to keep that for grains only now back here are a few other ideas these are not powdered uh this is homemade chicken bone broth which in this case I did not powder it up though I usually do because it was

Such a small amount anyway when I made this particular batch and I wanted to keep it separate from my turkey bone broth I just went ahead and just crushed it with my fingers and put it in a jar like this now if if it was a lot more

And I wanted to condense it down so it took up less room than I would have powdered this and then it would I could actually fit this in a quarter pint jar if I wanted to do that right here are some dehydrated pinto beans which I have experimented with and

You can powder these up and they work great that way for making more of a refried bean then you add whatever spices and other things you’re going to put in there for that flavor um I decided I’m not gonna powder up a bunch right now for that I’m just gonna

Probably powder it up as needed because it’s just an added step because you can even just take the dried beans and cook them down enough and then sort of mash them either way it’s going to be an extra step one way or the other so I’m

Just going to leave them that way here are some dried tomato Flakes and I never powder these up and here’s the reason why is tomato flakes are one of the worst things for clumping when they’re powdered up if you do not keep your jar vacuum sealed which this one is not

Because this is one I’m currently working through so I don’t bother vacuum sealing a lot of this stuff because most of the stuff you’re seeing out here are things that I’m working through and I don’t bother vacuum sealing when I’m working through them but if you don’t vacuum seal a tomato powder between

Every use then it will turn into a brick inside your jar and then the only way you can get it out without breaking your jar would be to add water to it and let it soak which if you’re going to use the whole jar for making maybe some tomato soup or

Sauce or something like that that’s fine but it trust me it’s pink so um yeah I just do my tomato tomatoes and Flakes and then here I just have these out because um I do make a an apple powder which I have right back here and mostly I keep my apples like this

But I have an apple powder here but as you can see apple powder because it is a fruit and has sugar in it it can Clump a little bit if you don’t though this is actually easy enough to get out and still use you just want to make sure you

Break up any clumps that you have because these aren’t super sweet apples the more sugar your fruit has in it the the more likely it’s going to be to Clump or you may not be able to powder it up at all unless it’s freeze dried but I’m only talking about dehydrated

Stuff I do stock up on certain fruits that we can’t get here freeze-dried through Mother Earth Products such as organic bananas organic mango and organic pineapple and a lot of times I’ll use those as powders to make pies icings add flavoring to different breads and so on but again what I’m covering

Here is all dehydrated items things I’ve dehydrated myself so uh zucchini powder does some have a tendency to do the same as the Apple powder which is funny to me but it does stay a little bit looser and is easier to you just got to break it up a little bit

And it’s easy enough to pour so let me just give you a few examples of how you can use some of these different things zucchini powder these are really great for adding to any kind of bread cookie pancakes muffins whatever you want to either add flavor like the Apple or to

Add more nutrition so I’ve used both of these and making pancakes I haven’t used these zucchini powder in making like a zucchini bread but I have added it to yeast Breads and to pancakes most predominantly those are two things I’ve used it in it’s just a way that I can

Replace some of the flour with something very nutritious use up the zucchini and again I’m just getting more nutrients in there and so I I like doing that I’ve made even hamburger buns using What I Call Z powder and I started doing that about four years ago I think it was and

I have a video out I’m making those particular ham uh hamburger buns by the way so as far as powders like that that’s what I like to use them in so anything that you’re going to bake obviously horseradish powder or something you just add water to and make

A basically an instant horseradish paste or you can just add that as flavor green same thing with pretty much any of this stuff that you would just want to eat like the yogurt you can add water to it and eat it mostly I was experimenting with these but it is something that like

The plain yogurt I decide I wanted to use as a base for making my ranch dressing and then you know like the fruit yogurts especially either one of them you can add to smoothies or or anything you’re wanting to get more of those benefits in or for the flavor oh and then pumpkins

Pumpkins the same as the apple and the zucchini but you can also use this for making pie it’s the num it’s the only way now that I preserve my pumpkins I used to uh bake them and then make the puree and then freeze that up but not

Only does that take up a lot of room in the freezer that just like a lot of things when you freeze it it gets watery so I prefer now to dehydrate it it’s easy to use I can just take out a little at a time instead of thawing out a whole

Big thing I like this better because when I want to make pumpkin cookies or pumpkin pancakes or even on those rare occasions even though I typically like my coffee black no no sugar no milk of any kind sometimes it’s nice to be able to make some kind of pumpkin spice latte

So I put a little pumpkin powder in there a few little spices and mix it in with my coffee and it’s so good and maybe some nut milk if I have on some on hand um organic half and half whatever it is I have pretty tasty but oh yeah and then when I

Make the pumpkin cookies I also add this powder to the icing now I do have a video out on making pumpkin cookies but I think I’m pretty sure on that one I wasn’t using the powder I’ll go ahead and link to it down below but I’m not

Going to give you all the ratios it’s all you can watch some of the videos I did like the one on making the pumpkin powder and to me a lot of it I just experiment I just add a little water and add a little bit more until I get the

Consistency I want and I rarely ever use measurements so when I’m using the raw egg powder then here’s the reason why I keep it raw because people freak out about this uh if it’s raw you shouldn’t you shouldn’t have them raw because I dehydrate them at a low temperature to

Keep them raw so the reason I do that is for the purpose of baking and by the way I don’t know what silly person is thinking of eating egg powder straight out of the jar that’s not the purpose when you go to cook with your eggs

Do you cook the eggs before you add them to your pancake mix cake mix cookies no duh they’re raw when they go in there same thing here it’s going to work a lot better for baking if they are raw and if I’m going to scramble them well I’m gonna cook them anyway so

Hello those people that freak out about that I just don’t get that the idea is to keep them raw so I can use them for as many things as I can obviously the only thing I can’t use the only things I can’t use egg powder for are the things

That you would keep in a more whole form such as hard-boiled eggs deviled eggs and um fried eggs obviously but anything that where you’re gonna have your egg Blended anyway that’s what you can use your egg powder for so the thing that’s really nice about most powders is that they’re going to

Take out dehydrated and then powdered up they’re going to take up the least amount of room in storage and they make for a quick easy use for many things whether it be making baby food adding to baked goods using in soups gravies and sauces whatever it is so for example uh

I kind of considered this powder because when I do the tomatoes I pure it I puree them first so they’re already all Blended up I just flake them instead of powdering so I don’t have to vacuum seal the jar between ever use and then when I

Add these to when I’m using these to make a tomato sauce of any kind typically it’s going to be Italian but I also use this for making chili barbecue sauce and so on I just add it to the water as is because since they were already pureed ahead of time they’re

Going to dissolve in the water and be just like if I’d added a powder so making a powder would take up less space than the flanks but again I don’t want to have to deal with it turning to a brick now the other option you have for

Things like that put them in small smaller jars like quarter pint jars half pint jars whatever it is that the amount that you think you’re going to use on a regular basis so you can just open up the vacuum sealed jar and use the whole thing at once so that would be

An option if that’s better for some people so now let me talk a little bit about vacuum sealing I’m not going to do all the demonstration I’ll I’ll put a video clip here of me vacuum sealing I think it’s nuts of some kind maybe hazelnuts I tend to my favorite method

Is using the brake bleeder pump and a vacuum sealing top but what I’m going to do is link you down below to a video where I show quite a few different options that you can use for vacuum sealing and that doesn’t even cover them all especially since now they’ve had

They have even more new things that you can get for pretty low cost like a handheld battery operated one I do show one in there but it’s a FoodSaver brand there’s some out there that are cheaper that people say work really well but anyway the important thing to know about

When you’re vacuum sealing powders of any kind if you look closely you’ll see something right there what that is is a piece of cloth this is important when you’re vacuum Sealing because when you are vacuum sealing you’re pulling the air out of the jar well what’s going to

Happen with your powders is they’re going to want to pull up as well and then they’ll make a coating along the rim of the jar so between the rim and the lid and that’s going to prevent a real good seal from happening so if your vacuum sealing powder is I’m wondering

Why your jars just aren’t sealing that’s why you need to put some kind of barrier now I use a cotton cloth because I always have a lot of fabric scraps around here but you can use like a muffin a paper muffin liner top it needs to be something that air can go through

So paper or cloth is best you can use a coffee filter cut it to size if you need to or even a chunk of paper towel I’ve done that before too so whatever whatever you have on hand whatever works for you whatever you prefer I use the

Cloth because I have it and I can when I open a jar take that out wash it up and reuse it for another jar is what I do so that is a very important step when it comes to powdering your Foods so just a few ideas for you to think about that

Will take up less space and be ready to use and again I don’t like to powder everything and some things just won’t powder well at all a lot of those things you can just rip it up flake it up whatever when it’s dried and still have

It take up a little just a lot less space that way oh I forgot to mention is beet powder I’ve made beet powder from beets that I’d grown made beat kavas out of then took the beets out of that dehydrated them and powdered them and that’s really great for adding nutrition

And color to various Foods it’s a it’s a great natural food coloring or even to use it in a makeup powder whether it be an eyeshadow or Rouge or even adding to a lip balm to add color and another great one to do that with is red cabbage

So in this picture you’ll see both the Beet powder and the red cabbage powder the Beet powder has a more burgundy color where the red cabbage has a more purpley color to it so it’s just kind of a fun way you can make your own natural food colorings out of some powdered

Goods and there’s a if you grow the blue butterfly peas It’s the flowers you can dehydrate those up and use those as a natural food coloring as well and it makes it and it obviously is going to add a blue color to your makeup your

Foods and more and if you add any kind of acid to it vinegar whatever it turns it purple so it’s kind of a fun one to play with I actually have some blue butterfly pea powder I tried to grow them one year but they even in the

Greenhouse they did not like it here at all if you’d like to try that you can either buy look for the powder give it a try and then see if you can find some peas to grow but yeah so there’s a lot of great things you can use your food powder sport

All right well I hope you enjoyed this video and I gave you a few ideas please share I know there’s a ton of other things that I powder up that I’m forgetting about oh like my Peppers my spicy hot peppers the Chinese five color that I grow I did forget to mention

Those I find I like them best powdered up and I can add them to anything it’s very spicy and very delicious but I know there’s more I’m still forgetting but please put your ideas down below share with us what are your favorite things to powder up and how do you use them so

People can learn from you as well and thanks for watching take care and God bless foreign