/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.379986]

How do I make hardtack taste better?

[Anonymous No.379987]

Make soup and put the hard tack in 5-10 minutes before you serve it.

[Anonymous No.379988]

>>379986
Eat it before it's 152 years old.

[Anonymous No.379989]

PEanut butter helps, anything you can spread really. I usually just pretend i'm a monster eating buildings though...Sigh

[Anonymous No.379990]

Would mixing cocoa powder into the dough help?

[Anonymous No.379992]

I heard that the soldiers would usually float one in their coffee to soften it up and make it edible....and that the worms would float to the top and could then be skimmed off.

[Anonymous No.380006]

>>379988
>>379989
>>379992
This is a golden thread to be sure

[Anonymous No.380009]

Why not eat the worms?
The worms, by eating the hardtack, have reduced its nutritional content.

Some of that loss can be recuperated by eating the worms.

[Anonymous No.380012]

>>380009
>Americans

[Anonymous No.380017]

>>380012
Americans are too prissy to eat them?

[Anonymous No.380020]

>>380012
Wait a minute there. The advice given to "eat worms" has a decidedly yuro/can't-nadian feel to it, as MurriCan's don't typically feel the need to eat worms

Or any other insecta/animal phylums

[Anonymous No.380027]

>>380017
non-American detected

[Anonymous No.380039]

>>380027
amazing, your powers of deduction are absolutely astounding

how could you possibly have known that I was not American based only on the contents of that post?

[Anonymous No.380044]

>>380009
Some of it and more! That's extra protein. Hell it might even add some flavor.

[Anonymous No.380266]

I heard somewhere that adding garlic into hardtack is a great way to add some flavor, and better still, it keeps many insects out. The downside is that it greatly lowers the shelf life of the product, but I'd imagine it'd be good for a few months.

[Anonymous No.380298]

>>380017
Yeah, as an American I can definitely say that there's a lot of social stigma to it. I had to condition myself to be ok with it by starting with ants and working my way up.

[Anonymous No.380308]

>>379986
Are you making your own hardtack?

[Anonymous No.380314]

>>379986
>never heard of hardtack
>look it up
>known as 'worm castles' by sailors
lol'd heartily

[Anonymous No.380441]

the iron in common urine will help caramelize the proteins and make your hard tack taste more akin to a kraft caramel square.

and the added bonus of recycling your urine and therefore keeping the planet greener.

[Anonymous No.380447]

>>379987
This.

This is one of the only good answers you can have. Hardtack is a storage medium for an ingredient. You don't eat it on its own. You don't start adding things too it when you are making it. You use it in things you cook later.

[Anonymous No.380486]

>>380314
worms are protein mate

[Anonymous No.380521]

>>380447
adding ingredients reduces shelf life. I think the most you can safely add is dry spices. Some have added honey, but again, reduced shelf life.

[Anonymous No.380541]

eat it with a nice chunk of salt pork and some beans

[Anonymous No.380555]

>>380521
>You don't start adding things too it when you are making it.

[SiX No.380556]

Anyone have a recipe?
>inb4 not /ck

[Anonymous No.380568]

>>380298
>Americans
>stigma to eating anything

[Anonymous No.380574]

>>380568
If it isn't beef, pork, chicken, or turkey, or some other 'normal' food, many Americans will turn their nose up at it.
Rabbit, elk, deer, moose, squirrel, pheasant, peacock, a wide variety of game and farmed animals go uneaten by large groups of Americans. Many veggies and fruits as well.
There are people who will only eat store bought food and will refuse anything hand raised, like chicken eggs and farm stand veggies. It's a combination of ignorance and paranoia. They don't make the full connection of where food comes from, and some are scared that small farmers are just out to sell crappy goods or poison them.

[Anonymous No.380584]

>>380541

[Anonymous No.380605]

>>380556
"Mix 5 cups of flour to 1 cup of water containing a 1/2-tablespoon of salt. Knead into a dough and roll out to 3/8-inch thickness. Cut into approximately 3-inch squares and pierce each with a fork or ice pick several times. Bake in a 400-degree oven for 30 minutes or until slightly brown."


Also:

>During the siege of Richmond, some soldiers who cracked the hardtack open to find it teeming with worms were disgusted and threw the crackers into the bottom of the earthen trenches they occupied. An officer of the day yelled at the men, asking whether they hadn't been told repeatedly not to throw the hardtack into the trenches.

Back came the reply, "We've thrown it out two or three times, sir, but it crawls back."

[Anonymous No.380747]

>>380308
Yes.

[Anonymous No.380907]

cinnamon?

[Anonymous No.380950]

>>380447
>You don't eat it on its own.
Unless you're really hard up for food, anyway.

[Anonymous No.380951]

>>380556
Simple hardtack recipe

You can make hardtack almost identical to what sailors, troops, and pioneers have been eating (minus the weevils!) by following this simple recipe:

4-5 cups of flour

2 cups of water

3 tsp. of salt

Mix the flour, water and salt together, and make sure the mixture is fairly dry. Then roll it out to about 1/2 inch thickness, and shape it into a rectangle. Cut it into 3×3 inch squares, and poke holes in both sides. Place on an un-greased cookie or baking sheet, and cook for 30 minutes per side at 375˚ (or 350˚ if you have a convection oven).
When it’s done, you’ll want to let it dry and harden for a few days, just out in the open. When it has the consistency of a brick, it’s fully cured. Then simply store it in an airtight container or bucket. To prepare for eating, soak it in water or milk for about 15 minutes, and then fry in a buttered skillet. You can eat it with cheese, soup or just plain with a little salt added. Any way you do it, it’s delicious!

[Anonymous No.382960]

>>379986
Rum, sodomy and the lash seemed to work back in the old days. Show up at your local gay bar with a riding crop in one hand and hard tack in the other and yell 'I dare anyone to make me eat this!'

[Anonymous No.383110]

>>382960
This is worth keeping.