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**lklawson** · 11-16-2010, 02:31 PM

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It seems you could use different spices and flavored salt for some variety... maybe even cinnamon and sugar?

Sugar would attract insects and vermin as would some of the "pleasant" spices. "Hot" spices that contain Capsaicin are known to repel insects and vermin. But, because humans are weird, we seem to like it.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk

Dutra Arms 216 · 11-16-2010, 02:38 PM

Thank you for this recipe. This one is definitely going in my survival pack. Elaina

NAB76 · 12-02-2010, 03:19 AM

maybe im dumb but whats is hardtack?

Viper · 12-02-2010, 10:08 AM

Like a concrete hard biscut used for a staple for a couple hundred years

cmagill91 · 01-21-2011, 05:40 AM

im gona make some tomarrow i do civil warreinacting and have ate lots of it hard to find a good resipe yum

MechWolf · 02-26-2011, 08:51 PM

I'm gonna bake that. I love western movies, I always thought hard tack was candy, but I asked my dad and he said that I was thinking of rock candy. Pure sugar. Thanks for the recipe....

Mech

penutbuttrbandt · 03-15-2011, 02:08 AM

Has anyone tried running the hard tack through a dehydrator after baking? Figured it may aid in getting it to storage more quickly.

**showpare** · 05-27-2011, 10:30 PM

After seeing this sticky, it reminded me that I made some hard tack in October 2006. It was still in my semi-conditioned, waterproofed, and dehumidified, attached garage. I just tried a piece. It was still hard and tasted ok. It was stored in zip lock baggies and inside a gaollon icream bucket with the lid duct taped shut. I fried up a little salt pork to test it.

I got the recipe from the Internet and credit was given to Dixie Gun Works. I can’t credit where I got it. The author said to, and I did, bake them again at about 225*F for another 20-25 after the first baking, after they cooled

I cooked up some thinly sliced salt pork and added some hard tack from the 10/2006 batch. It didn’t soak the salt pork so the grease was pretty salty. The salt pork grease did soften up and took on the grease flavoring. It was pretty tasty. I had a can of Lucks mixed beans seasoned with pork that I mixed with it. That can of beans had a ‘use by’ date of Apr 15 2007. Neither me or my daughter are puking.

DeMan · 08-31-2011, 04:55 PM

I've made a different style of hardtack. I got the receipe from a Mother Earth News about 20 years ago.

Rather than sheetrock / plywood, it's more like an unsweet graham cracker on steroids. They're thinner, bnd pretty rugged, but you can eat then without the hammer or bacon grease. I don't know if they'll keep 30 years, but mine kept fine in a ziplock bag in my knapsack for the whole summer.

If anyone's interested I'll see if I can dig up the receipe.

**showpare** · 09-01-2011, 12:38 AM

yes, yes, dig up the recipe.