> 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 ----------------------------------- Michael Edelman medelman_at_ameritech.net http://www.foldingkayaks.org http://www.findascope.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Thanks for the recipe. How do you think it would be without the sugar? (I have diabetes.) Anyone out there have a sugar free recipe for hardtack? - Gordon Snapp > Hardtack > > Recipe Ingredients > > 1 1/2 Cups milk > 4 Cups flour > 4 Tablespoons butter > 3 Teaspoons brown sugar > 1 1/2 Teaspoons salt > Serves: 12 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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