Found a recipe for Hardtack - Cheap emergency food homemade!!!!!!!!

[Whispering Winds]

Boyd! You let us know how it turns out?!!!!

 

[saddina]

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yeah, and from what I can tell also dates back to the cival war for field rations. Of course they used some bacon grease or butter to fry it up in if they had a chance to to up the calorie and protein count. Never knew it was so easy to make. Dried like it is, it should last in ziplocks for a looooooooooooooooooooong time. Perfect for an earthquake bag

Ships crossing the alantic would use it as well, both eaten as a cracker, and dipped in "broth" (hot water) for a soup.

 

[TinaK]

lol...

that's what we'd call good old Aussie 'damper'... you're not meant to throw it on a tray in the oven though...

you are meant to roll it into a ball and then just toss it into the coals of a fire!!!... scrape it out with a stick in 15 mins or so, crack off the scorched outside and eat the middle with jam!!!!

good old campfire food

 

[FrenchHen]

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And then everyone died of scurvy.

 

[sonew123]

Sheesh Boyd-I didnt know what hardtack was.. I thought it was emergency rations for chicken food until someone couls get to the local pet store! I hope I never face a food shortage emergency

...unless your cooking

 

[Boyd]

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I'll cook for ya'll anytime, and I'll even promise it won't be roadkill unless its venison

Thats too tasty to pass by ya know?

 

[saddina]

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And then everyone died of scurvy.

Yep, but i live in citrus country.

 

[Boyd]

thats why the indians of my state made pemmican

 

[The Chicken People]

Thanks yall for the

 

[Boyd]

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But I'm is a bein a serious minded