Hardtack and Coffee, Or, The Unwritten Story of Army Life.
Soldiers purchased canned goods from government-licensed sutlers, but government rations consisted primarily of salt pork,
hardtack, and, on occasion, desiccated vegetables; not canned goods.
Adult butterflies spend most of their lives in the forest canopy, but may be found puddling/mineralizing on moist
hardtack and nectaring on flowers of Erigeron spp.
The other factor is that, due to their diets of meat (pork and beef), the cracker-like bread called
hardtack, and very few fresh vegetables, soldiers on both sides had little or no night vision thanks to a lack of vitamins.
Surprise's
hardtack. By refusing to be panicked into dropping sequestration because it means cuts to the Pentagon, House Republicans began that updating.
Amid the cosmic miasma of afterlife angels and merciful dinosaurs, Malick's cinema remains capable of
hardtack poetry; in The Tree of Life's acute portrait of the relationship between Brad Pitt's aesthete-bully paterfamilias and his three sons, the haunting scene of boys cavorting in a toxic fog of DDT reminds us that Malick was once considered the bard of prelapsarian America.
Operation
Hardtack 1: Location of test sites (1958) The locations of ten nuclear tests in lagoon--Fir, Nutmeg, Sycamore, Maple, Aspen, Redwood, Hickory, Cedar, Poplar and Juniper.
To eat anything but
hardtack and bug-ridden bacon required hunting for food, digging a shallow ditch for a cooking fire in the relentless prairie wind, and burning buffalo chips for lack of trees.
Consider the following phrases peppered throughout McFee's book: from an ode to the saltine, "the redneck's
hardtack, / the cracker's cracker"; or the sublime heights of his paean to pork skins, "the apotheosis of the epidermis"; cigarette butts as "used-up hyphens fallen out of conversation"; the queenly letter Q, "the monocle / of our alphabet's monarch"; and Death, the bearer of bald heads, personified as "the smooth Prince of Alopecia." This is, I think, the place to start when reading That Was Oasis.
Sailors in 1812 ate food like dried peas, salt pork, and
hardtack, which is a simple inexpensive cracker or biscuit made from flour, water, and salt.
Tasty Treat Pirates love to eat food so why not also make a typical
hardtack biscuit.
Stories from the Civil War" offers visitors the chance to try on period uniforms, visit a soldier's campsite, and examine a piece of 19th-century
hardtack.
It was also called "loblolly", sometimes made with
hardtack and molasses cooked together.
