[Paddlewise] Hardtack

> 1 1/2 Cups milk
> 4 Cups flour
> 4 Tablespoons butter
> 3 Teaspoons brown sugar
> 1 1/2 Teaspoons salt
> Serves: 12
> 
> It was hard and it was hardy. Union soldiers supposedly marched toward the
> South in 1861 with hardtack leftover from the War of 1812. These crackers,
> wrote one Civil War correspondent, were "hard as bricks and indestructibly
> unappetizing." The newer version is surprisingly good, but still hard as a
> brick.

Real hardtack has no fat, no dairy and no sugar; it's just flour, water 
and salt. And it does travel well. I made a batch for my last paddling 
trip, to be eaten with peanut butter. Union soldiers cooked their with 
their fatback ration into a sort of porridge known as "slumgullioln". 
That brave, I'm not.

For a real 19th century recipe, see: 
http://www.price.gv2.net/Reenact/Recipes/hardtack.htm

-- mike
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Michael Edelman   medelman_at_ameritech.net
http://www.foldingkayaks.org
http://www.findascope.com



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