Cookbook | Bread Recipes | Vegan cuisine | Recipes
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| Category: | Bread Recipes |
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| Calories: | ? Cal/? kJ |
| Time: | 1-2 hours |
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Hard tack was used during long sea voyages and military campaigns as a primary foodstuff usually dunked in water, brine, coffee or some other liquid or cooked into a skillet meal. This cracker was little more than flour and water which had been Baking hard and would keep for months as long as it was kept dry. Also known as a sea biscuit, sea bread, or ships biscuits.
Mix all the ingredients into a batter and press onto a cookie sheet to a thickness of 1/2 inch. Bake in a preheated oven at 400 °F for one hour. Remove from oven, cut dough into 3-inch squares, and punch four rows of holes, four holes per row into the dough (a fork works nicely). Flip the crackers and return to the oven for another half hour.
Some recipes also recommend a second baking at 250 °F to thoroughly dry out the bread.
