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Hard Tack

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Hard tack is a cracker/biscuit flat-bread used during long sea voyages and military campaigns before the introduction of canning as a primary food-source. Mostly inedible for dry and hard preservation, it was usually dunked in water, brine, coffee, or other liquids, or cooked into a skillet meal. This cracker was little more than flour and water which had been baked hard and would keep for months as long as it was kept dry. Also known as a sea biscuit, sea bread, or ship's biscuits.

Total 02:00
Yield 12 flatbreads

Ingredients

  • 2 cups flour
  • ¾ cup water
  • ¾ teaspoon salt (optional) (optional)

Instructions

  1. 1
    Mix all the ingredients into a dough and press onto a greased cookie sheet to a thickness of ½ inch.
  2. 2
    Bake in a preheated oven at 400°F (205°C) for half an hour. Don't cut now.
  3. 3
    Remove from oven, and cut dough into 3-inch squares. Punch four rows of holes, four holes per row into the dough (a fork works nicely).
  4. 4
    Flip the crackers and return to the oven for another half hour.
Method
Baking

Dietary Information

Vegan

Recipe Attribution

Wikibooks Cookbook
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Hard_Tack