A throw back! To a previous blog...

Hardtack

Ingredients...

• ~3 cups flour
• 1 cup water
• 2 teaspoons of salt

Mix the water and salt in a bowl.  Stirring constantly, add the flour until to thick to stir.  May be more or less than 3 cups.

Knead.

Roll out, until 1/2 inch thick.  Cut into squares (3 x 3), a pizza cutter works well... then poke holes!  4 x 4, 16 total.  A skewer, a nail... anything "small" and relatively clean...

Ungreased, bake for 30 minutes, 375 degrees, turn over, and bake for another 30 minutes.

A piece of "hardtack" has lasted for 50+ years...

WARNING:  Hardtack is "hard."  A mega-cracker.  Not to be consumed without a softening agent!  Boil some soup, add it to stew, DO NOT EAT IT DRY!  At least drink water afterwards.







Next, maybe a jerky recipe!