MMMMMmmm...nothing much better than fresh bread and some dripping to dip it in.... Thanks RachelM

Army Hardtack Recipe
Ingredients:

4 cups flour (perferably whole wheat)
4 teaspoons salt
Water (about 2 cups)
Pre-heat oven to 375° F
Makes about 10 pieces
Mix the flour and salt together in a bowl. Add just enough water (less than two cups) so that the mixture will stick together, producing a dough that won’t stick to hands, rolling pin or pan. Mix the dough by hand. Roll the dough out, shaping it roughly into a rectangle. Cut into the dough into squares about 3 x 3 inches and ½ inch thick.

After cutting the squares, press a pattern of four rows of four holes into each square, using a nail or other such object. Do not punch through the dough. The appearance you want is similar to that of a modern saltine cracker. Turn each square over and do the same thing to the other side.

Place the squares on an ungreased cookie sheet in the oven and bake for 30 minutes. Turn each piece over and bake for another 30 minutes. The crackers should be slightly brown on both sides.

The fresh crackers are easily broken but as they dry, they harden and assume the consistentency of fired brick.

Swedish Hardtack
1 cup water
3 tbsp. vegetable oil
3 tbsp. honey
3 cups rye flour (or 1 1/2 cups rye & 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour)
1 1/2 tbsp. brewer's yeast (optional)
1/4 tsp. salt
Mix liquids together. In a separate bowl, mix dry ingredients. Combine the mixtures, stirring to moisten throughout. Form a ball. On a floured surface, flatten the dough, and roll out thinly. Cut into squares and prick each cracker with the tines of a fork a couple of times. Transfer to lightly greased baking sheets. Bake at 425° F for around 8 minutes, checking to be sure not to over-brown. It is best served warm.

When I'm camping or hunting I like bannock. I cook/bake it in my cast iron fry pan I take with me.

I keep meaning to learn to make biscuits, the non-rolled kind, but I never remember to do it. Something I want to do since there are many different kinds of flours one can gather up or harvest and process if they had to. Hard to find recipes too that don't involve making 24 biscuits at a time 🙁

Runs With Scissors

Hi again,

I asked a while ago about putting flour or mixes into MRE's. I found a few recipes that, if you have a pan or surface to griddle on, can give you some good comfort snacks.

RachelM,
sounds like we are on the same track regarding making our own MRE's.
I use a simple bannock mix in mine and just thought about including some of those individual serving packs of jam/PB/Syrup.
I can't remember if Bulk Barn sells them (if they don't they should) but I'm sure Costco has them.
They would definitely make a bland bread more palatable!

Don't forget even if you don't have a fry pan, you can make easy and tasty fresh biscuit, you just need a couple clean fresh green sticks to use as a cooking tool over a very small fire, ideally taken down to coals, you make a slightly thicker batter, and wrap it around your stick as evenly as possable and bake and turn each side,break off and eat hot an fresh. Don't make them to thick around the stick or you will have more issues cooking them though, and to thin, they will fall off.

Hi again,

I asked a while ago about putting flour or mixes into MRE's. I found a few recipes that, if you have a pan or surface to griddle on, can give you some good comfort snacks.

RachelM,
sounds like we are on the same track regarding making our own MRE's.
I use a simple bannock mix in mine and just thought about including some of those individual serving packs of jam/PB/Syrup.
I can't remember if Bulk Barn sells them (if they don't they should) but I'm sure Costco has them.
They would definitely make a bland bread more palatable!

I know the National Grocer's Cash & Carry in Niagara Falls does. I work part time at a gas station, and the old owner used get all sorts of stuff there. It smaller than Costco, but you don't need a membership. They've got a wide selection of chocolates, candies, and protein bars and some medicines you can buy cheaper and in bulk. It's a good spot, in my opinion, if you want to buy a box of protein bars and stick one in each meal pack. They've also got some regular grocery stuff like meats, etc, so you can probably buy a bunch of meat in bulk and dry it, freeze it, whatever you like.