Ships biscuits

Back in Herman Melville's day, ship’s biscuits (which later came to be known as hardtack) was common seaman’s food...

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How to Make Hardtack: A Cracker That Lasts for Years - hardtack is a hard cracker made from flour, salt, and water. The great thing about hardtack is that as long as you keep it dry, it will last for years. Because it’s inexpensive to make and lasts so long, it was once taken on long sea voyages and was called things like pilot bread, ship biscuit, sea biscuit, or sea bread.

1784 British Ship's biscuit at the National Maritime Museum, London - From the curators' comments: "A round ship's biscuit with perforations as an aid to baking. Inscribed: 'This biscuit was given - Miss Blacket at Berwick on Tuesday 13 April 1784, Bewick'." And it's lasted this long - whoa!

(from Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-book, by Catharine Esther Beecher, 1846) Ingredients: 1 gill distillery yeast or 2 gills fresh home-brewed yeast 1...

Best Food Choices While Gold Panning Last month, we shared a recipe for "Hangtown Fry" (link to prev. blog), a popular miner meal. This month, we’re back with another traditional recipe for miners: Hard Tack Biscuits. Hard tack bread was commonplace during the 49er gold rush, since its ingredients were relatively easy to acquire. As their name suggests, hard tack biscuits are traditionally hard and dry, and they’re definitely worth a try! Interested in learning more about how your…

Today, celebrate with the bread that lasts forever.

Takes me back to childhood...Cheesy, herby, flaky buttermilk biscuits infused with Old Bay seasoning and baked to fluffy amazeballsedness. The ideal appetizer for all sorts of meals, but especially if you've got seafood on your menu!