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Hard tack tastes like a very plain biscuit or an unsalted oyster cracker. It is so dry and hard that eating it plain is very difficult. During the civil war, soldiers usually rehydrated their hard-tack by boiling it in water or adding it to a soup or stew to make it chewable.

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