HARDTACK Civil War Era Recipe & Taste Test -- Will I chip a tooth?
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- During the American Civil War, Union soldiers often called hardtack, this bland, cracker-like staple of war, 'worm castles' and 'jawbreakers.' I'm fixing up a batch of hardtack to see just how bad it was. 😬
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Hardtack
5 C. all-purpose flour
1/2-1 C. water
1/2 t. salt
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When I was six, an American civil war reenactor came to my school. They offered us hardtack to try but no one volunteered except me. I was convinced that it would be like an unfrosted Pop Tart and I was horrified as bit into it. Pretty sure the reenactor was too. 😅😅😅 And that's how I lost one of my front baby teeth. Hardtack: 1, Emma: O.
Theres a reason why they are called mollar breakers.
I bet your mother was horrified too!!!
@Anonymous Person it's been 9 months and I ain't sure but I might be the only one who realised u said that u were in the woods shooting at PEOPLE and not anything else😂😂😂😂😂😂
@Anonymous Person ahhhh ok makes sense
Lol!! That sounds like it hurt! 😂😂
I remember reading a book that mentions the soldiers eating hardtack in the dark so that they wouldn't have to know if they had bugs in them. Not sure what the book was, but it stuck with me.
I remember my teacher telling us that in school
Hardtack and Coffee by John Billings?
Pirates actually did that.
Hey, at least when they ate it, they got pure protein!😂
Sam O’ Nella?
i lowkey always end up falling asleep to your videos you have just the kindest soothing voice ever
Sometimes I'll put on old emmy vids when i need to go to sleep. lol
Never new videos, have to be ones ive seen a few times
Katy N yeah, she could do ASMR
Cookie 4811 me too. „Emmy eats Hungary” is one of my favorites to fall asleep
@@joakuz Yeesss!!!!!!! lololol
My teeth aren't strong enough to try this.
Same. My teeth are so fucked up. they would forsure break lol.
Sameeee
Callie Masters honest to god when I was a kid I opened the glass Coke bottles with bottle caps with my teeth. Black walnuts too.
Callie Masters you could try a Swedish Hardtack. Its slightly softer and a bit sweet compared to what Miss Emmy made. Always worth a try!
@@chinchilladivine81 In the 1980s I went on a school trip to Turkey. At the hotel our group ordered a couple dozen Cokes. The waiter delivered them and, as a bit of a party trick, proceeded to open all of the bottle caps with his teeth. It was disgusting and fascinating all at the same time!
So you're supposed to take your "sheet iron biscuits" or "tooth dullers" as they were commonly known you soak them in some water or coffee after they're crumbled up and then you fry them up in bacon grease and eat them with your bacon. I've tried it actually it's pretty enjoyable. Another way is to soak your dried beans overnight and you fry up some bacon then you pull the bacon out of the grease and put your crumbled up hardtack and the beans and a little brown sugar in the bacon grease fry that all up and then you throw your bacon back in and eat that
Yea I just posted I fry mine in the pan right along with chicken thighs and by the time the chicken is done the hardtack has toasted up in the chicken stock in absolutely tasty and soft. I ended up eating the whole batch I made.
I used to soak bits of them in hot broth (with ramen if I had it). As a student it's pretty decent since it's fast and will fill you up while only using things that won't go bad.
That sounds amazing
tarstakars
Gotta say that bean, bacon and hardtack concoction actually sounds pretty good to me!
That actually sounds pretty good. Hell, it even sounds like something I'd make when it wasn't my only option.
Hardtack is still eaten in Newfoundland, Canada . It is part of a dish called fish and brewis, (salt cod and hard tack)it is often accompanied by scruncheons which is just fried pork fat. So yummy
Cynthia Legge yes! You have to soak it first. Delish with molasses and drawn butter!
Hard tack and hard bread served the same purpose with the same ingredients, but purity hard bread is flakier (such as it is) and in a different shape. They're both descendants of ship's biscuits from the olden days of sail.
coming from New Brunswick this was nice to see :) yay NFLD ,so beautiful
My grandparents were from Newfoundland and they used to give me hardtack to teethe on as a baby. I ended up loving that stuff and continued to eat it up into my teens. I remember it was oval and came in a sort of paper bag.
Likely Purity Hard Bread, was it in a red bag? Im sure I have a bag up in the cupboard somewhere haha
When my family went through hard times and we use flour, water,salt, and sugar to make our version of hoe cakes.
Fry it up and you got fry bread, which is a staple of native american food. Because that too was all they had
Tracy Heyward I tried ASMR... tell me what y’all think plz 😂😂😩😩💀💀
In really Hard Times, there's no oil or fat for frying. Also the addition of oil or fat can cause food to go rancid. Hard Tack can last for years and years without spoilage.
@@zzydny the fat & frying is added in a second preparation, not as part of the hard tack recipie.
It was also common to eat with meat broth or to make meat stew by crushing the hard tack in replacement for flour and add it to the cooking meat.
Who you callin' a ho...cake?
Roman rusk is really hard. 50% honey 50% flour bake at 350 degrees for thirty minutes. It is like eating flour flavored hard candy. The Romans gave it to there army as rations.
I'm going to try this, thanks!
"Alright, so let's get this out onto a tray"
*their
ffs!
I've made hardtack several time. I like to cook them twice. The first at a higher temperature, around 400° for about 20-30 minutes, then they're removed and allowed to cool. After they're cool they go into a 250° oven for about 3-4 hours until very dry. A couple of years ago I came across some hardtack that had been forgotten in a pack that wasn't used anymore, it was about a decade old and tasted the same as when a week old.
I make multigrain hardtack to take when hunting. The oat flour that makes up the bulk of the secret family recipe softens it a great deal. We also add more salt to replace what is lost by sweating during the hikes in and out. Our recipe is allegedly based on a Roman ration from the Hadrian's Wall garrison, but I think it is more likely to be from the Middle Ages. Anyways, it is oat, barley, and whole wheat flours, salt, and water. They are relatively soft. Rather than coffee, a cup of hot broth is better for dipping. My preference is mutton broth. But you can eat them straight and I do sometimes do that. When I was a child I would snack on them. On hunting trips, we also take jerky or pemmican. One piece of hardtack and one of pemmican makes a fine wilderness meal. Our pemmican is dried pounded meat, dried cranberries, peanuts, and rendered fat.
They weren't really meant to be eaten like Saltines or Ritz crackers despite those that tried to do so. Many breaking teeth in the process. They were usually soaked to soften them before eating like say in coffee or milk or crushed and added to soups and stews to thicken them in place of flour which wasn't readily available many times. You should talk to reenactors to see how they used them in camp cooking.
She literally said they soaked them prior to eating...she soaked hers in coffee.
Thankyou for letting us know that they used them as flour , that’s really cool
It's like you didn't even watch the video.
@sean - It's like you didn't read the second half of the comment. Let me help you out - "or crushed and added to soups and stews to thicken them in place of flour which wasn't readily available many times."
obviously you dont either because a standard daily ration in the Civil War consisted of 10 pieces of hard tack, salted pork, and coffee, these items were almost always combined. If you want to learn more "hard tack and coffee" a famous book written by a civil war veteran offers a lot of insight into what soldiers often ate at the time.
When I was a kid my family and I did 1812 Reenactments where I used to have to eat a lot of Hardtack and other period dishes. It's nice to see someone else "suffer" through this.
What was your favorite?
@@pebbles0200 Hey, Honestly I was a big fan of the cast iron Apple crumbles we used to make, oh and some of the stews were quite tasty!
I konw how you feel reancted the amriscen Civil war for a long time
@@johnsimcoe1722 that sounds delicious. I might try to find a recipe.
@@pebbles0200www-chatelaine-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.chatelaine.com/recipe/desserts/classic-apple-crisp/amp/?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQCCAE%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chatelaine.com%2Frecipe%2Fdesserts%2Fclassic-apple-crisp%2F this but no ice cream... Although it adds a nice moisture to the crisp.
I was told my great-grandfather had hardtack when he was a riverboat engineer on the Mississippi way back in the day. I'm also told that's where he developed a love of very strong, very sweet coffee. Makes me wonder if the hardtack had something to do with it...
We’d make homemade Christmas ornaments with basically the same recipe when I was a kid. As long as they were sealed after painting they lasted forever lol You can use cookie cutters and have any shape you wanted.
We added more salt to ours when I was younger
We used to make those, too! Saltzteig, as we called them in Germany.
Andie Luke yes those! My Grandmother is from Fulda. 🙂
@@xSaucySirenx This is making me want to hunt down the books we had on how to make the little dolls and ornaments using the saltzteig haha... Wonder if we still have them. Thanks for the trip down memory lane :)
We did, too! Called it salt dough, painted and varathaned them! Such fun!
I used to be a Civil War reenactor. And, speaking from experience... the best way to eat hardtack is to soak it in the drippings from fried salt pork (which is like really thick bacon). It's still not a culinary delight. But, the addition of fat does make it easier to consume.
Reminds me of the “ships biscuits” we used to eat as kids, holidaying on the seaside. The bakery made them as a reminder of the sailors long ago, who would have these as a staple. One of those biscuits would last us days as we would nibble away at them, until my mom threw them out. Happy days.
Hard tack and ship's biscuit kinda presumed you were first gonna soak them anything from a couple of hours to overnight to soften them AND get rid of the weevils (known in some places as "watering" it). After that you threw in whatever else you had available (soaked bully beef on board or on the march, fish if Cookie was any good with a long line) and boiled the hell out of it all, then ate the resulting mush.
Hardtack is hard.
I want to try and make this but trying to recreate the original mixing and cooking methods. I don't have a stand mixer, so I have a head start xD
Can you make a version of Clara’s pizza!?
YES more Clara videos please!!!
Yes please do
Clara is just lovely. her loving nature reminds me of Emmy.
are you talking about depression cooking Clara? she was so sweet. RIP
In Spain is typical dip the bread on coffee. May be has a poswar origin, but you can see people who dips plain bread, plain toast on their coffees or teas, just because they like it or because they dont want to waste the bread from the day before.
I suppose is common in other countries too. Sorry for my colloquial english, I am not use to write it.
I toast bagels extra crunchy & dip them in black coffee. Yum!
There are several things in the Grocery Store that are U.S. Civil War hold overs. Canned milk, Canned ham, Bouillon cubes, Deviled ham, desiccated vegetables, and instant coffee. Chicory coffee is still sold here in Utah.
Hello Emmy. Dentists everywhere will love you.
My daughter watches u also. She's addicted to your videos just like me. I think her fav ones are when u do the tastings from around the world. That's mine also. And also your vintage gadgets u try. Plus your M.R.E
Vintage gadgets deff! Love them all.
Oh Emmy, you are so fun!! I love the learning factor of your video's, but,you always make me laugh and/or smile!
Wonder if it would be fun to make these with a little more salt and maybe some thyme and garlic powder and onion powder, cut them round and put one at the bottom of a hot bowl of broth or soup.
I was thinking the same thing. Treat them kind of like a crouton. Maybe add some rosemary or other herbs perhaps some lemon zest?
Fabulous idea!
Certain herbs would help repel bugs, too, if you were actually going to store it...
Maybe French onion soup? It's a great idea. I always thought hardtack was supposed to be soaked. It was so hard because it kept forever and travelled well. I can't imagine with the poor dental health of that era that this would have been pleasant to eat.
@@gw4451 it's quite possible these contributed to the dental condition of the era.
This makes me want to see you make Lembas Bread from Lord of the Rings.
This needs to be higher up. But yeah, Lembas Bread would make a good video.
Though would it be enough to fit the stomach of a Hobbit?
That's got LSD or something in it.
Lemabas bread used magical grain. I have a huel based recipe that sortove does the same thing albeit with a significantly higher volume for a days rations due to us being limited by non magical chemistry and containing adaquate amounts of fiber. You could probably make a significantly denser nutrient block using some sort of saturated fat, protein powder, and the adaption of various isolated micronutrients I won't guarantee comfortable bowel movements if you try to live on such a food..
Soldiers used to break it up with the musket butt. They would soften it in their mouths. They would also make a paste with salt pork grease and wrap it around their ramrods over the fire.
Kevin Springer sounds sexy.
Ram rod rolls, also could be made with cornbread dough
I absolutely adore this series. Hard times and retro recipes are by far my favorites. Love your channel as you probably know since I comment a lot. Just want you to know you're appreciated.
*Hardtack is hard.*
My favorite thing about Emmy? She burps. Like a sailor. *love it!*
Yes Ennie is a classic Chef in a league of her own. Martha Stewart and other greats cannot compare to her.
In Revolutionary War times, soldiers would also carry pocket soup to reconstitute and eat with their hardtack
I see another Townsons follower.
I tried making pocket soup. Turns out you need to cook a large amount of meat to make it happen. My 3 pounds of roast by the time it was "pocket soup" there may have been a teaspoon left. So now Im going to try just keeping, freezing stock until I have a larger amount.
@@chartle1 My first thought too lol
@@shmodzilla may want to try a bone cut with alot of colegin.
Thank you Emmy, been following you for a while and always love your videos. You are entertaining while educating and all for the yum and good stuff. Prayers to you and yours and keep finding the joy in food and life and keep sharing, you are a love to watch.
I love your passion for cooking and the effort you put in every video it makes me want to try your recipes
I am always so amazed by the amount of research you put into each video. 💕 if you ever go to Harpers Ferry, WV, there is a historic candy shop that I believe sells these (along with other historic candies, obv). Very worth checking out!!
Oh my God when she starts hitting the dough I can't breathe, I love watching her videos just for her.
Some recipes that I've seen for hardtack called for rolling the dough out to a thickness of about a quarter of an inch. This thickness made it easier to put into tins and store for sending to troops in the field. The soldiers would then let it soak in a broth or in a stew to soften it.
I love your videos, especially these historical ones. Thank you for making such great content!
OMG my son said y is she eating heart attack crackers I SMH and said really.
I told him it's called hard tack he said. O that's what I said .. lol
Sharon Cielocha i have captions on and they say heart attack instead of hardtack too
@William Mills
That's after you get your dentist's bill, LOL
@@gigiw.7650 🤣
Your son needs to be in improv lol
Many soldiers during the Civil War would crumble it up to add to their coffee , stew or soup. Or they would soak it with water and fry it up with bacon grease.
My Great Great Great Grandfather fought and died in the Gettysburg war. A distant relative of mine still has a small wooden box with some of his hardtack in it as well as some more of his belongings. Pretty amazing how resilient that stuff is.
❤❤❤❤❤ I was sooooo hoping you would try making hardtack for your hard times series! I AM SO HAPPY TO SEE THIS!! The nostalgia is strong in this video! Thank you so much for this video Emmy :)
I experimented with this last year, and you could kill somebody with one of these! You know what's good, though? Break up the hardtack into smallish pieces (easier said than done), and cook them in about 2 cups of chicken broth for about half an hour. The texture is sort of like a thick al dente noodle, very chewy.
JumbaFan You have to cook them THAT LONG in liquid just to get them to an al dente noodle consistency?!? I think I’m severely underestimating how hard they must be.
@@AloneInTheGarden Twenty minutes would probably be enough, but I wanted to make sure. I wouldn't have bothered, but I wanted to use it up and I was trying to come up with ways to soften it so that I wouldn't break a tooth.
@@AloneInTheGarden if youve ever eaten rock candy, these are twice as hard. Youd only consume them in this solid state if there was literally no other option.
shmodzilla I don’t think I’ve had rock candy since I was a kid so I don’t fully remember its hardness, but that’s insane. I could tell it was really hard just by the audible crunch when Emmy chewed it, but I never imagined it would be that hard.
I was thinking when she was first trying to bite it that I would imagine this bread would be used while eating a soup, broth, or meat.
I love your videos❤❤❤ cant eait for the next one
i learned about hardtack in fourth grade when we did an oregon trail simulation, and i've always been curious about it since. it was very satisfying to have that curiosity brought back by emmy so many years later!
I adore your channel
My boss is a civil war reenactor. According to him, I don't think are suppose to eat it as is. He told me that you could break it up and mix it with bacon grease to make a gravy. Hardtack is more a portable version of flour so use it as you would flour in any recipe.
Totally unrelated to this video -- but I just wondered if you've ever made Hawaiian-style shaved ice with your ice shaver? I love the lilikoi (passionfruit) flavor
with adzuki beans
and vanilla ice cream!
Great video as always 💓
Love you, Emmy! Thanks for the smiles.
Emmy your awesome! I loved the pemmican video cause I never knew they used berries in it.😊 love this recipe.
So I don't know why exactly but I was trying to find some hardtack myself a few months ago... found out there's a historic place in Milton, MA (outside Boston) that had been making it since 1801 and supplied the Union troops during the Civil War; they have the original machines in the upstairs and the building is also original from that time. Unfortunately, it seems that in 2016 or 2017 the business got sold to an New Zealand husband/wife who stopped making the hard tack and everything else on the menu, starting making hipster-ish overpriced sandwiches, and apparently have already gone out of business. So sad. :(
lamelama22 That’s a bummer.
What a cool video series! Subscribed!
Love you videos, thank you for your work and making them entertaining. I always thought hardtack was double baked like biscotti. Look at that...Learned something new...But I usually do when I watch the Em....and Seriously..who would "thumbs down an Emmy video"
Maybe add nutmeg? Hee hee. 😁 I love the Townsend and Sons channel, so I had to.
Never enough nutmeg!
Lol. How do you think *I* got here?
The natural oil in the nutmeg will make the crackers go rancid,
Therefore will defeat th3vpurpose
Almost like pita chips. Lol I always felt like I was gonna loose a filling eating those 😄
Love you Emmy. You're just so fun xxx
I laughed when you started beating the dough with your rolling pin. That was great!
that's some beating to that baddy dough hahaha
Hard tack with worms just meant some protein. Lots of sailors used hard tack long before the Americas were discovered. Of course not having any fruit meant they got scurvy.
Thank you for this video. Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
You should see your face biting into that, hilarious!😂😂😂
Looks like jaw breakers for sure! I was saying that you needed your rolling pin to whack the hardtack and break it! :) “Hardtack is hard.”
Before you even started my Alaskan brain said “Pilot bread!” Definitely a staple of my childhood but now it’s occasionally enjoyed with cream cheese and lox with capers.
I live in Western Washington, and grew up eating Pilot Bread. I put butter on it.
@@lydiakies9053 Ditto
I like my pilot bread with some mayo and a slice of cheese as a snack:)
You are so relaxing. So nice to sit and relax and watch.
Lol! The beast in you comes out when you bake! 🤣💪💪
When I was a kid, our school took us to very small museum. They had this Civil war collection. There was uniforms, guns, and a hardtack biscuit. The biscuit was in box with glass lid. The currator passed the box with the hardtack around so we could all see it. The hardtack was designed so it could be hands on. While the currator lectured us we looked at the hardtack. The hardtack was a little to hands on, one kid opened the box, and ate it. We all got yelled at, but the kid who ate the hundred and fifty year old hardtack was only six years old. On the way home the six year old who ate the hardtack said it was okay, but he need a drink.
I think that in one of the Horatio Hornblower books, Hornblower is served some excellent chicken... then the people eating it are told it’s so good because it was fed on the insects from ship’s biscuit (essentially hardtack): infested biscuits shaken in a sack to dislodge the pests, pests become prime chicken feed. Hornblower loses his appetite.
Wow great Video. The best content(info, demo, quality, jokes).No wonder why you have 1.7M subs! Also your teeth are freakishly perfect. Keep up the great work.
A Townsend shout out was nice. His channel is very entertaining. Has some really neat colonial era recipes and I found out a year ago that they are located 9 miles away from where I live. Also enjoy your channel too,Emmy!
I live in an area of the north where the Civil War still has a heavy impact on our culture and psyche. A history teacher once told me that some of the hard tack issued to soldiers was actually left over from prior military engagements like the Troubles and the Mexican-American war. So it could potentially be decades old. I imagine the worm issue was probably particularly bad with that batch. Anyways, hard tack is hard.
I wonder if herbs would be good in it to add flavor.
I really want to make this with my kids,we homeschool,and use this as an activity to do with a lesson on the era. Thanks Emmy! Love your videos as always!
I would try to make it not sooo hard hahaha
I enjoyed the crunch and the coffee burp!🤣🤣🤣
Hi Emmy! Would be cool to see you make caramelzed white chocolate. It tastes really good, lots of recipies online
Red shirt! Giving me Nana Clara vibes ♥️♥️
Brilliant! Thank you Emmy.
I always learn so much from your videos
"Hardtack is hard."
But is it tack?
It took me way too long to see why you'd put up the "CUTE" text. I was sitting here thinking "I mean you are, but I didn't think you'd be the type to just announce it like that..."
Then I finally saw the flour. :P
Where was the flour? I couldn't see it.
I thought she was pointing out her hair barrette.
veryberry39 I wondered also. Had to replay then I saw the flour in her hair😂
Lol.....I burst out laughing, spitting out my coffee, watching her "beat the hardtack dough and growling...lol. Too funny. Love it.
Thank you for the recipe and the laughs.
I remember my Jr High School History Teachers husband brought some of these one day for a Civil War presentation she arranged outside her class, he brought an entire outfit and some civil war trinkets is such as old camping gear and equipment.
You are gold Emmy!!! Make BARK BREAD! Yes from the tree. Pls pls pls pls...
Yes! It’s on the list. 🌲
Sailors used to have this a lot in the days of wooden sailing vessels, they'd bang the hard tack on the table to evict any weevils & maggots that were in it (unless they wanted the extra protein!), then break it up and throw into whatever soupy gruel they had been served to soften up, it's amazing sailors managed to survive on this stuff... :S
Lots of them didn't. In the 17th and 18th century ships embarking on long trips hired a lot more sailors than were actually needed to run the ship because they expected plenty of them to die during the trip.
In the Royal Navy, sailors often had to choose the lesser of two weevils.
I had to laugh at the hard tack beating🤣 I had my phone sitting on the table while watching and the sound woke my computer up🤣🤣
I love your videos, espically your historical videos! When soldiers were in garrison, and not on the march, they would soak the hardtack in water until it was soft and then use the grease from salted pork to make kinda a greased pancake.
MY MOUTH IS WATERING!
You've obviously never had it. It's bland.
2:50 had me dying 😭🤣🤣🤣
I went to Gettysburg, PA about a month ago and learned some things about the Civil War. I got to visit the battlefield also I went to the house where the only civilian was killed during the civil war her name was Jenny Wade and they still have the little board where she making dough for bread for the soldiers, she was making dough at the time she was killed. It was a really interesting historic place and i loved it so much! I'm glad you are making and trying to experience what it was like during hard times!
I actually went to Gettysburg a couple of years ago for a Halloween trip, and my friend (at the time) and I got to do a tour of the Jenny Wade house! It was very fascinating!
My Great Great Great Grandfather is buried there. He fought and died from being shot in the leg.
Caryl Ackley I’ve been to Gettysburg too. Huge battlefield. Reading about it doesn’t truly convey the large amount of terrii
Caryl Ackley ...territory encompassed by that battle.
Have you ever been to Antietam? If not, I recommend reading the book, Landscape Turned Red, then touring the battlefield. It will be an emotional experience.
Donna G Most likely, that shot shattered the bone, forcing amputation of the limb.
"CUTE ->"
That made me LOL IRL 🤣🤣
Brilliant!
Ancient Marshmallow, made out of mallow root!!!
My grandfather probably had to eat these
That is highly improbable. This is a Civil War era food. I'm guessing your grandfather fought in WWI, WWII, or the Vietnam War, which by then, more modern MREs had been long developed.
Your videos are always A-1. As a Civil War buff actually living on a piece of the battlefield from the Battle of Nashville, I have found minie balls in our woods. Having researched hard tack, a Civil War scholar showed me how the soldiers in the field made coffee over the fire and then dunked their hard tack in the coffee before attempting to bite into it.
I love your channel so much, as a student in the RD program, I find this so interesting!!
Ahahah. I didn't realize your "cute" was pointing at your hair at first. I thought you were just calling yourself cute.
Isn’t that the same recipe for Play-Dough???? 😂
And it's the base for conductive dough / squishy circuits. Yes, you can make your own play-dough at home w food coloring, add some cream of Tarter or lemon juice to preserve it.
No lie I just saw this at the National Infantry Museum. Little fun fact because they were resilient soldier would actually write on them, sometimes with little memoirs and even using them as postcards.
You were so adorable in this vid! I love it Emmy!
That music sounds so familiar. Was that on Ken Burns' Civil War? Very 1800's.
I was definitely inspired by Ken Burns' Civil War and the song is called 'An American Hymn' from epidemicsound.com.
These seem nice for teething babies
Sky Noele yea you could add some honey/sugar to make it more tasty!
@@kaylam3309 do NOT use honey for ANY infants or toddlers under the age of 2 years old. It could kill them.
Maeglin the Lost I did not know that! Thank you for telling me.
Maeglin the Lost Since they’re cooked it should be fine? Raw honey is a danger because of the possibility of botulism. Is this why you said not to?
But in regards to teething children, I don’t really think they have a problem with the taste since I’ve seen kids “chewing” on keys and plastic blocks 😂
@@fai5734 I still wouldn't chance it. But, that is just me.
I enjoyed this video. I was always fascinated by hardtack and the stories I read about it... soldiers breaking it up on the muzzles of their muskets, needing to soak it in coffee for 2 hours just to make it edible... as a kid I even tried making my own hardtack replica. Good video, well researched.
You remind me of a mother I wish I had. Thank you for the nice comfort.