It's for an English word that describes a bread that has been
preserved by toasting or heating. Naturally the bread is no longer
fresh; it's hard and usable only for dunking in soups or stews or
maybe used as a thickener. But the bread keeps for a long while
without
becoming mouldy. As I understand it the bread required no special
handling, just hung
in bags or sacks until it was used.

stark wrote:
It's for an English word that describes a bread that has been
preserved by toasting or heating. Naturally the bread is no longer
fresh; it's hard and usable only for dunking in soups or stews or
maybe used as a thickener. But the bread keeps for a long while
without
becoming mouldy. As I understand it the bread required no special
handling, just hung
in bags or sacks until it was used.

Hardtack?

On Oct 31, 9:50 pm, Dave Bell wrote:
stark wrote:
It's for an English word that describes a bread that has been
preserved by toasting or heating. Naturally the bread is no longer
fresh; it's hard and usable only for dunking in soups or stews or
maybe used as a thickener. But the bread keeps for a long while
without
becoming mouldy. As I understand it the bread required no special
handling, just hung
in bags or sacks until it was used.

Hardtack?

Could be. There's something called rusk and there's zweibach, but I
was thinking there's a specific name for bread in whole loaf
preservation. There's a small treatise on reconstituting stale bread
in The Bread Book dtd 1640 which instructs one to dip the loaf in cold
water then heat in a gentle oven, claiming that the bread tastes
almost fresh.

On Nov 1, 3:30 pm, the pilgrim wrote:
On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:50:07 GMT, Dave Bell wrote:
stark wrote:
It's for an English word that describes a bread that has been
preserved by toasting or heating. Naturally the bread is no longer
fresh; it's hard and usable only for dunking in soups or stews or
maybe used as a thickener. But the bread keeps for a long while
without
becoming mouldy. As I understand it the bread required no special
handling, just hung
in bags or sacks until it was used.

Hardtack?

Seabiscuit?


Nah, he quit racing decades ago.

In article .com,
stark wrote:

It's for an English word that describes a bread that has been
preserved by toasting or heating. Naturally the bread is no longer
fresh; it's hard and usable only for dunking in soups or stews or
maybe used as a thickener. But the bread keeps for a long while
without
becoming mouldy. As I understand it the bread required no special
handling, just hung
in bags or sacks until it was used.

Sounds like a rusk to me.
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
Notes about our meals in Tuscany have been posted to
http://www.jamlady.eboard.com; 10-16-2007

On Nov 19, 5:48 pm, Melba's Jammin'
wrote:
In article .com,

stark wrote:
It's for an English word that describes a bread that has been
preserved by toasting or heating. Naturally the bread is no longer
fresh; it's hard and usable only for dunking in soups or stews or
maybe used as a thickener. But the bread keeps for a long while
without
becoming mouldy. As I understand it the bread required no special
handling, just hung
in bags or sacks until it was used.

Sounds like a rusk to me.
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ

That may be it, or the closest I'm gonna get. I remember it as Holland
rusk but English accepts all comers. Thanks.