Biscuit! (aka Hardtack)
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Ingredients:
450 grams whole wheat pastry flour
250 grams water
5 grams salt (optional)
Biscuit was a popular food for soldiers and sailors in the 18th century. These hard cracker-like wafers were ubiquitous on sea voyages and took on the additional names ship’s biscuit or sea biscuit. It wasn’t until the mid-19th century that they became known as hardtack, a term applied to the ration by soldiers during the American Civil War.
Directions:
Mix water and flour and allow to rest 20 minutes. Continue to mix dough adding salt if desired and knead until firm and smooth approximately 5-10 minutes. Add more water if kneading is too difficult. Excess moisture will be removed during the twice-baked process (bi-scuit and bi-scotti are related in this way). Also note, this dough will require less gluten to be developed than a typical bread dough, so keep kneading until cohesive and uniform in texture. Anything further is unnecessary.
Shape into rounds or cut out squares 1/4 to 1/2 inch in thickness. Dock with multiple small holes to allow moisture to escape and bake for 30 minutes at 350F. Remove from oven and keep in a warm place to prevent cracking. Lower the temperature of your oven to its lowest settling, approximately 200F, and return the biscuit to dry thoroughly. Depending on the original moisture content this could take up to several hours. Once dried, they should be cooled and stored in a dry place. The results after baking should approximate one pound of biscuit, a daily ration (if it could be had) in the Continental Army.
Just a few notes: this is essentially a 55% hydration dough. You can add more if necessary but it will be baked or dried out either way. I also include 1% salt. Salt was not a common ingredient in biscuit during the 18th century as far as I can tell, but a small amount makes these more flavorful and versatile when used in other dishes.
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@@christhekappa399Fewer
The aggressiveness with putting it in the bag then snatching it makes it seem like you’re mad about having to eat it 😂 I’m scared it would break my teeth.
Ya don't eat it like that lol, soak in soup, wine, hot chocolate 😉
There aggressive there KKK the beginning of United States they weren’t deadly racist there shape like saltine crackers most likely you had to dip them in hot tea ? Ice tea came later in Boston rea party
Wow hot chocolate! Thats actually a great idea@@brandonevans5888
it's actually kinda good
@@brandonevans5888I feel bad for the people who had no choice but to eat this stuff by itself
we defending the trench with this delicious cookies🔥🔥😋😋🥶🥶🆙🆙
We impressing Kaiser with this recipe 🙏🙏🤑🤑🤑🔥💯💯💯
These were so hard and dry that soldiers would break them up with the butt of their rifles and soak them in coffee or hot milk to make a rudimentary porridge.
Wow, sounds nasty tho but thats a cool fact
@@espeon871mixing them with milk or coffee?
No the fact that they were so hard they had to be broken down with rifles. Well that and the soggy coffee porridge😂@vast9467
That's more a 19th century US Civil War anecdote found in many personal accounts of Union and Confederate Soldiers, especially mentioning hardtack being consumed with coffee or being pounded by a rifle butt.
18th century, it was more likely broken up into stews or soups in the field or on ships.
@@vast9467 milk was too expensive apparently some people could afford condensed milk... they say mixed with coffee was the most popular
I read that during the civil war era, soliders would dip these in with their stew to soften them. It sounds delicious, I love stew. 😋
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Reminds me of the Elven bread biscuits in the LOTR movies
I hearsay hardtack was the inspiration of it. You also add more molasses to it so they were "sweet"
At the end, he snatched that like he was heading for the frontier, RIGHT NOW!
*clack clack*
who knows, knows
Tasting history innit?
Two cups of whole wheat flour a day of these, three servings of hot chocolate mix, four or six chicken/ tomato bouillon cubes, two tbsp of coconut oil, multi vitamin. All individually packed and all packed together for one daily ration of about 1100 calories without the oil.
You can add hard candy or honey for a sweet treats, honey is also a medical item for wounds.
Cheap survival diy mre. That multi vitamin is extremely important.
I am aiming to just keep making these and storing them dated for the day made.
I love this video more then i do eating ships biscuits....
Why is the best bass I've heard not from music but a video on hardtac??
LEMBAS! (unironically, this inspired Tolkien's lembas)
Just tryed a hard biskit I made over 5 years ago, stored air tight, in a cabinet. It tasted just like some I baked a few days ago!! Not a thing I would crave but.. lol Now ill check that batch in 5 more years!!
Shelf life is probably over a year just like that damnnn
Try over a decade if you store it properly
Even 150 years if stored properly, some hardtack from the American civil war is still edible today
steve 1989 ate one from the civil war💀
And then they'd bake it again for a few hours, just to seal the deal 😂
@@gehenna2148 steve is an internet legend
They taste really good with beef fat or lard.
I'm glad Biscuits (Southern American) and Hardtack (candy) have evolved to tastier things 😋
Underatted video
I hear Max’s **tack tack** lol
Subscribed! Love your recipies brother or should i say... grandpa?
It occurs to me that if they were further subsegmented like a chocolate bar it'd be easier for them to soak in a broth essentially turning it into biscuit pasta.
Mmmmm. Hardtack.
The bassist dough I’ve ever heard in my entire life lmao
Dude how is everyone else making hard tack look fancy!?
When I make it it’s just misshapen lumps that i coat the outside in extra flour so it doesn’t stick to the tray… they’re also significantly harder than the ones in the video cuz I can hammer a nail with mine… they’re tasty tho… I added cumin and black pepper and if you soak it in chicken broth it’s a good snack
Lol that ending
1700's asmr
For some reason I was expecting you to Smash Everything with a Shovel and Rapudly Throw Eggs Everwhere
lmao ww1 howtobasic
Thats a nice set of dominos you have there, oddly shaped tho
all of my bois in the trenches would add sugar to the mix 💀
nothing compares trench slush and sweet hardtack.
We eating good in the trenches with this one
I kinda wanna eat it
i have no teeth i wish i did but after years i have learned how to eat without them but i miss nuts and salads there almost impossible to eat.
they had cameras back then?
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WEEK 1: BOOTY GALORE!
WEEK 2: WEEVIL HARDTACK!
yoo its george washiton
Nice fucking comment dude
“washiton” 😭
how would it taste with honey on it
What about the recipe?
Use seasons and herbs 😅
Why do you set it aside to rise if there is no yeast?
It allows the wheat to rehydrate and the dough is thus easier to work.
Does it matter what flour is used? Could use use oat or rice rather than wheat?
no
Wait, are saltines based on hard tack?
Good for long last, soak in some liquid👍
Eating drywall.
😂😂😂
I bet hardtack is good as all get out to put in soup
Yeah, that's one established use for it actually.
*click* *clack*
Now eat it I dare u . I heard u gotta put them in water first to soften
Love the aggresiveness lol down and dirty
Why did they sound like bricks 😭
They're meant to be able to last on long voyages, hikes, etc so they don't have much moisture to them, didn't stop the maggots getting to them though.
Bro it can broke your teeth