How to make emergency survival biscuits (Hardtack)
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- Опубліковано 7 кві 2016
- If you have flour and water, you can make hardtack, a biscuit that will stand the test of time with proper storage. This extremely cheap and easy-to-make survival food was rationed out to soldiers and sailors throughout history. Union soldiers in the Civil War received nine to ten of these biscuits daily, and one soldier's memoir in particular (John Billings), documents a hilarious view that he, and most soldiers, had of this bland cracker back in the day.
According to Wikipedia, one museum purportedly contains a biscuit from 1852 that amazingly still appears to be edible.
A 50gram biscuit will contain just a little over 180 calories, 38 grams carbs, 2 grams fiber and 7 grams of protein. It is not the most nutritious thing, but it will keep you going until you can find the next steak and salad.
There are variations of the recipe, and in mine, I leave it out salt. You can certainly tweak things around by adding sugar and other ingredients to boost flavor and vitamins, however you do so at the expense of longevity. If you have no intentions of storing this for long periods of time, then by all means, have at it! Post a video of what you come up with :)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtack
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You can use these biscuits to patch holes in your roof or resurface your driveway.
+luwdmke You most certainly can! Although my personal favorite is using them as ninja throwing stars. Don't laugh...they can kill
I'm sure you could file down a pretty mean edge on one of those bad boys!
Replacement mortars at your next pigeon shoot. Or frisbees for people you don't like.
As add on armor tiles for tanks
lol
salt is not optional IT IS ABSOLUTLY NOT OPTIONAL USE SALT
salt is used to kill airborne yeasts and to absorb moisture...
not using it will remove the long lasting properties
and those holes are wayyyyy to small
+puppy in pants Duly noted! Lol. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I will have to add an annotation about the necessity of salt.
Ya, one should really use a hardtack rolling pin to make these. It puts lots and lots of deep groves into your hardtack, making it easier to bite down on.
How much salt?
@@RicheBright About 1 teaspoon per cup of flour.
Thank you. I was looking for this comment.
I keep having to throw away batches of biscuits, I can't seem to get the dancing part right...
+Collective Unconscious Oh, man. You gotta get the dancing part down. It's the most important part of the recipe. Otherwise, you're going to throw away many more biscuits. ;)
you honest to god made me chuckle, thanks - myself
Thanks now im ready for world war 3
This comment aged pretty well.....
Now im ready if i falled from my airplane accidentally.
@@dr.hasdan true
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For that song at the beginning alone, you deserve so many more subs.
Great video, very concise. Love your sense of humor, especially the pizza slicer!
Thanks, Asa. I appreciate it. :)
Also when you out the biscuits in a shirt, you can use this shirt as a plate carrier
Salt is not optional !
you will need salt in war times and it is not easy to get , also salt keep the craker dry so it will store for a long time
Thanks for watching and commenting. Personally in these modern times and between all of the salted/preserved meats and other ready-made survival meals, I don't think getting enough salt will be an issue. This is what I had in mind when I made the biscuits. However, you're right, in extreme circumstances and certain environments, if this is all you had, then salt is definitely not optional. I think you just inspired me to make another batch with salt just in case :)
well done, sir...great presentation...one optional hint I would add...once you have the dough "ball" let it sit in the fridge for an hour or so in plastic wrap so that the flour absorbs all of the water...makes it a little easier to work with (this is what you do with homemade egg noodles which is the same thing except with egg added) but totally optional, of course...great VIDEO!
I really need to make hardtacks for a long fishing trip, so i clicked on this video and i laugh damn hard at the creative opening emergency biscuit song. Thank you so much !!😂😂😂 lol, got the recipe and got the comedy !
"Get your self a pizza cutter" *has a picture of a cricular saw on screen*
+Stuka Steven You know, in case you decide to slice the biscuits after they're baked. ;) Thanks for watching!
Now all you need is a bit of pemmican. Not the non-meat "pemmican" bars they sell in camping stores, but the really lean dried and powdered meat mixed with suet that they used on the frontier. Mix it with crushed hard tack in a pot, and you have what passed for rations during the American Revolution.
+Coffeehound Surprisingly I have yet to try traditional pemmican. Would you happen to have an online source for the powdered meat? Sounds like it should be an easy affair to marry it with the hardtack. Thanks for the info!
None that I know of, but it is fairly easy to make, although a bit time consuming. If you hang around the second hand stores, you can get a dehydrator fairly cheap. Just dry some lean meat until it is brittle, then grind it up in a food processor or a mortar and pestle - even a cheap coffee grinder works. Mix 50/50 with beef tallow (no vegetable shortening - it goes rancid) and divide up into portions. I'd vacuum seal it, if possible.
Easy enough. Thanks again for sharing! I rummaged through my pantry and sure enough, I found some homemade jerky in a container that was brittle enough for this purpose. I appreciate the info. Have a good one!
Dude, I spent so much time dancing....
+Saku19 You kill some time while waiting for the biscuits to bake and you're getting a cardio workout too. I planned this all out. ;)
Lembas Bread. Great stuff, kept Sam and Frodo going for a long time, helped save the world.
+mwilson70201 Exactly! A few of these biscuits in our little Elvish bug-out bags will ensure we all have the ability to save the world in some shape or form without going hungry. Thanks for watching :)
Two thumbs 👍 👍up. And the touch of humor sprinkled in was worth watching it too 😄
Sarcastic teaching videos are the best! Love your attitude here, dude. Subscribed.
I don't usually go to the work of leaving a website to come to UA-cam JUST to like a video, but this was fantastical! I loved it and will be sharing it and checking out your other stuff as well. Thanks!
Damn man you should totally keep doing videos like this. Really useful info and entertaining.
Oh man, thank you! I appreciate it. My schedule has been horrible lately, but I'm trying to find more time to record vids. Thank you for the feedback. I'll try to have something up soon :)
@@IslanderHero I agree with him...you're very talented!
This was hilarious....love the cleaning the guns bit!
+Faith Ellen Thanks, Faith! You need to have some type of activity to kill the time. :)
the amazing intro song and the heavy duty "pizza slicer" just got you a new sub XD
+Deaddy Eddy Haha thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching and thanks for the sub!
I love your video!! I love the dance moves too! The humor made my day now I’m signing the emergency biscuits song as I make them :)
Awesome, the song was superb.
excellent video.. funny and enlightening also. Thanks for sharing your recipe !
thanks for the quick easy recipe
Hahahaha! Informative and funny! Great job! 👍🏼👍🏼
Really great video. Easy to follow and informative.
I enjoyed the video - good info - and fun to watch.
I appreciate it. Thank you!
I like your style bro. That intro song was dope lol
Great to the point video! Fun too!
Thanks for making rock hard food fun.
Liked and subbed.
Sweet! Thank you for the support! Much appreciated :)
Good video. I enjoyed the humor too.
Very cool video! I just subscribed, thanks for the info.
0:34 pizza slicer made me spit out my drinking was dying of laughter
Freaking hilarious...super funny and genuinely informative...
Now more than ever; good info!
Thanks for your upbeat attitude. Your singing reminds me of something from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.😀
You do hilarious and educational videos. Subbed, so you gotta do more. :)
Cute video. Informative and entertaining
Thank you, Debbie!
Great advice and entertaining. Thanks very much. Always like people with a good sense of humor.
Thanks, Winston! I figured that a video about hardtack would be as entertaining as a political debate, so I had to spice it up a little. :)
@@IslanderHero Thanks from S.C. I'm back after my last post 3 years ago. Times are getting tougher. My 10-year-old grandson and I made some hardtack last week. It amazed him. We ate some in coffee. Pretty good.
That's awesome 😊 thank you for sharing..
Thanks for the video. Educational and entertaining. Cheers
Excellent, excellent. I didn't know the protein was so high at 7g. I'm starting on these tomorrow morning. Thanks so much. Really.
They still make this commercially. It's called pilot bread. They sell it at WinCo grocery stores, and mountain house sells them in airtight cans.
(The canned mountain house ones, are advertised as having a 30 year shelf life.)
DOOOOD!!! MORE VIDEOS PLEASE!! You're so funny!
I've been away for some time, but I'm going to try and make a comeback. Thank you!
Thx for the video and the chuckles. =)
Thanks, I can't wait to try these, laughed my a** off at that "clean your guns" comment.
LOL! Thanks for the comment and I appreciate the support!
Thanks for posting.There are so many on how to make it but very few on ways to use it other than bust molars.
+eric fleming Thanks for watching, Eric! I also enjoy these with a little peanut butter on top and a glass of milk.
you rock!! thanks for the fun and informative vid!
This made me happy
You funny s.o.b. you got yourself a subscriber!!!
+Andy Flores Haha! Thanks, Andy!
Thanks for the video. I'm gonna try this today!
Enjoyed your Vid, Great Antisnooze delivery style.Subbed!
Thank you, and welcome to the channel! I'm pretty sure the topic of making hardtack is inherently dull, so I went the funny route. Glad to hear the antisnooze delivery style kept your eyes from slamming shut midway through the video. :D
That was absolutely hilarious! I made some of these from a recipe from Dixie Gun Works back in 1974. You can pave a driveway with these.
Lol so funny! Awesome video
Fun video man!
+Benisse Calmleth M. Famat Thank you for watching! I enjoyed filming it for sure. :)
I'm gonna make dinosaur shaped hardtack
Update: the deed is done. The boys are complete
Bro show the boys man
Bravo! very cool and entertaining...I think I'll opt for the soaking method before trying to eat.
Entertaining video. Thx!
Biscuits are cooked twice, hence the name - bi meaning two. To make them last they're baked two or three times at a low temperature to drive out all the moisture. It's the hard smooth outer layer that makes them resistant to decay and nibbling by pests.
+psammiad You're right. That's traditionally how they're made. However, I've had good luck baking them once then vacuum sealing them. Thanks for watching!
Funny and informative video. Thanks!
Thank you for watching!
@@IslanderHero You're very welcome!
I think you're opening sound deserves an award.
I loved the intro!!! it's so hillarious hahahhahhah love it
Wow this video made me laugh. Subscribed!!
Thank you, Anthony!
I enjoyed this way more than I thought haha
your funny man look forward to see more vids
+aa joe Haha! Thanks, aa joe!
What happened to this channel very entertaining, and educational!
The best laid plans, I tell ya. I've filmed at least two review videos, but every time I intend to sit down and edit, something comes up. I'm trying though! I'm hoping to have another video up within the next couple of weeks (really hoping).
The salt is very important to add to this recipe. When eaten as a survival food, it provides a sodium source.
awesome video, great job
Great video!! I needed a laugh thanks!!
I’m late to the comments but I want to share an old recipe I found using these. Water, pocket soup (bullion), pemmican, onion, potato, broken ships biscuit, salt and pepper. Came out amazingly good!
I wonder if flax, coconut, or other alternative high protein flours would work?
that scrambled egg idea is intriguing
+billygowhoop It was actually pretty good. The hardtack added a nice crunchy texture to it. Thanks for watching!
Love the humor! LoL!
That scrambled eggs is ingenious!
this was great thanks so much
Might carry a bit in my haversack in a couple years when I start civil war reenacting... cool!
Start making them now. You can store them in mylar bags or use a vacuum sealer. They will pretty much last forever...or close to forever. lol
Sweet! That's actually easier than I thought. I wonder how much longer it would take in an outdoor underground oven?
Thank you so much I just went and made some
AWESOME.......👍👍👍👍
2019 and the intro song is still on point!
Nice video. funny too.
Thanks for watching, Rebecca!
Probably the best/most common way to eat hardtack is as a "sop", where you put it in the bottom of a bowl before pouring soup/broth over it. Like he said its also good for thickening gravy or just dumb it into soup while your cooking it to thicken the broth/add texture. If your going to eat it straight, you can also pour your drink over it. On ships the used to lay the hardtack down, put salt pork over it, and then pour some of their beer/grog ration over it to soften the biscuit while washing some of the salt off the pork.
Yep! You got it right. Even the sailors and soldiers back in the day had to find way to make the blasted things palatable. lol
As a long time Cook with Civil War re-enactors, I've learned how I believe many Soldiers really ate their hardtack, twice bake it. 1st bake at around 200 degrees till it toasts. remove & cool, then bake again at as low as your oven will go to dry it out.
2, dipping a hardtack in a hot drink only makes it slimy, it will not soften much at all, Boiling it hardly does either.
Best way I have found is to fry it in an oil or, bacon fat. I believe the Soldiers figured this out also, & bacon & bacon fat were generally available in most units as a staple food, so they would have been able to get bacon fat to fry it up in. That's how I make for my units, frying them up like that makes the outside crunchy instead of very hard & the inside soft.
Simply Brilliant for Survival! Nice "John Fogerty Style Intro Music..."
Thank you! I hesitated on including that silly intro song, but I figured it's just as silly as the rest of the video, so what the heck. ;-)
Hahahaha! And the video came out successfully... The song came out well.. Good Job!
LOL! Thank you, sir :D
We made these in Boy Scouts for our excursions in the back country.
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Thank you for sharing
+Stephen Gonzalez I'm pretty sure they kept you going too. :) Thanks for watching, Stephen!
Awesome!
+Todd McPherson Thanks, Todd!
underrated channel lol
You can also bring one to a town meeting and be Quint from Jaws... eating one slowly and at the same time be a badass :D
+BolinFoto Haha yep! No one would mess with you eating the biscuits like that slowly. ;)
20 years is an overstatement.
love the gun part too...
sweet moves.
You just saved me a lot of money on preserved foods with this Coronavirus shit going on. Really hulked up my calorie count on my preserved foods. Thanks man👍
Thank you.
Haa ha pretty funny yet informative. Thanks.
Thanks for watching, Duke!
Have you seen our old Irish recipes? Our native dishes are mostly frugal. We make potato cakes, soda farls, etc. We use potatoes to make scones.
Hi Pink Lady, I checked out your channel and there no vids. Are your recipes posted on a web site?
IslanderHero, I haven't made videos on Irish cooking. There are some Irish recipes in UA-cam. Over 30 years ago, Ireland was not a well-developed country, so many Irish did not have much money to buy a great variety of foods, wide range of tools, many pots. Their wealth was limited. Shops in 1980s didn't have such wide ranges of fruits and vegetables as we do today. You might want to check out traditional Scottish recipes as well. Theirs are similar to Irish.
Old Irish have lived frugally for centuries. We had Great Famine era started in early 1840s. About 8 - 12 millions of Irish had died from famine. Many resorted to cannibalism. Plant disease blight had wiped out their only food source: potatoes. At that time, Ireland was under the oppressive British colonial rule. After the Great Famine, it took great several decades for Ireland to overcome nationwide poverty.
All our traditional recipes contain 5 - 7 ingredients or fewer, whereas Indian dishes have numerous ingredients. One of our favourite frugal dishes is the one-pot meat stew. It is one that many traditional Irish have almost every week.
Irish meat stew is cheap and economical one-pot cooking, none of all that cooking with 2 or 3 pots, none with 10 or more costly ingredients. Every poor student, unemployed and old aged pensioner should learn this recipe.
Irish stew.
Into the pot, throw in bite-size cubes of meat and fry them. Meat can be of any choice. If you like, throw in a little flour and brown that by flying. Some Irish do that or they leave flour at the end. Flour is for thickening stock. Next, throw in chopped vegetables of choices: onions, carrots and potatoes. That is mostly all the vegetables that Irish put into their dishes. Stir fry and sweat the vegetables and meat with lid over. If you like, you may add other vegetables like mushrooms, celeries, parsnip, etc, whatever foods available in your kitchen garden. Next, add water to meat and vegetables. Heat and simmer. Add salt and pepper, or your choices of chopped herbs. Sometimes, old Irish add beer to the meat stew only if it is needed in place of flour. They waste nothing in their kitchen. If you are run out of flour or beer for thickening stew, you may use cornflour instead. Otherwise you eat unthickened stew which can be nice as thickened stew.
Old Irish always had salt in their cupboards. They used Saxa brand of salt. That stretches over a long time. Salt is always used to preserve cooked potatoes, as potatoes are the main vegetables that natives eat everyday. My late father grew potatoes at the back of our home. He also grew other vegetables and fruits: carrots, onions, cabbage, apples, rhubarbs, etc.
Thank you very much for sharing. This is great insight to old world ways and really is not at all different from where I grew up in the Pacific Islands. We used every part of the animal and plant and leftovers were always tomorrow's breakfast. :)
This is great. I especially enjoyed the first Boxty video - simple and straightforward. The documentaries were well made and really put into perspective the hardships of folks in Ireland back in the day. Thank you for sharing
Now this is what you need to make biscuit armor or hardtack armor
Subscribed just for the hilarity. Thanks for the tutorial.
+Jallen Rialubin Sweet! Thank you for the support!
Thank you
Thank you for this upload. It's going to be really helpful & Please, I really could desperately use any on surviving without money. That's if you do those kind. I'm new & came upon this looking for something else.
Sounds pretty good with coffee.
+The R3AP3R 57x Gaming Yep! That was a common combination back in the day for soldiers. Thanks for watching!