Category: Cooking
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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,…
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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…