Category: Cooking

  • Sailor Boy Pilot Bread

    As I mentioned in another post, I got a little obsessed with the idea of hard tack, and that led me to Sailor Boy Pilot Bread. This is a large dense cracker product beloved by the people of Alaska, and this is my review of it. Unobtainium These crackers are impossible to buy in Kentucky,…

  • The allure of hard tack – making a durable, edible travel biscuit

    Between reading Aubrey/Maturin novels and watching Townsends videos on Youtube, I’ve developed a bit meme-lust for hard tack. Hard tack is flour and water and salt formed into cracker or cookie shapes and baked and dried until it is basically rock-hard, and is a very durable food source used as far back as humanity has…