In article >,
Loki > wrote:

> When we were in high school, one of our group decided to try some
> Civil War re-enactment. He got the clothes and we tried our best to
> provide authentic hardtack. We found an old recipe from that era and
> made it according to the directions.
>
> It was awful. Beyond awful. It was so hard you had to soak it in
> liquid to make it edible.
>
> That's what it was too. We'd evidently made it correctly.
>
> You don't want authentic hardtack, that's for sure.

When possible, they used to cook it with whatever else they were
eating... frying it up in a pan with grease or the like.

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