Hard Tack

Hard tack is a cracker/biscuit flat-bread used during long sea voyages and military campaigns before the introduction of canning as a primary food-source.

60 min

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• ¾ cup water
• ¾ teaspoon salt (optional)

Steps

1. Mix all the ingredients into a dough and press onto a greased cookie sheet to a thickness of ½ inch.
2. Bake in a preheated oven at 400°F (205°C) for half an hour. Don't cut now.
3. Remove from oven, and cut dough into 3-inch squares. Punch four rows of holes, four holes per row into the dough (a fork works nicely).
4. Flip the crackers and return to the oven for another half hour.

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Adapted from “Hard Tack” in the Wikibooks Cookbook by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Reformatted for this site; this page's recipe text is shared under the same license.