Either:
Break it in a spice-grinding bowl with the spice-grinder, put a piece in each cheek and let your saliva soften them until tooth-friendly. Eat. Continue until it's all been eaten.
Or, dunk a bit of one into a (hot) drink to soften it. Nibble off the soft bit and carry on until it's all been eaten.
Or, plop it whole into a soup or stew as the thickener.
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Bacon, coffee, rice, hardtack.
Sailors ate hardtack because it did not spoil and was easy to carry. Maggots and other worms infested the biscuits, which let the sailor have additional protein.
Hardtack # Hardtack is most often used in the civil war.# Hardtack is dipped in coffee, tea, soup, etc.# It is very crunchy that is why it is used for dipping in things#
I believe it was hardtack. It is a kind of cracker that is very hard to bite.
In air raid shelters, food is typically non-perishable and easy to prepare, such as canned goods, dried fruits, nuts, and hardtack. People also rely on ready-to-eat meals like MREs (Meals Ready-to-Eat) and snacks that require minimal preparation. Additionally, some may bring along portable cooking equipment to prepare simple meals if the shelter allows for it. The focus is on sustenance and convenience, often prioritizing items with a long shelf life.
Operation Hardtack - commando raid - happened in 1943-12.
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Hardtack Is a hard bread or cracker fed to soldiers in the Civil War.
During the Civil War, dried biscuits were called hardtack.
A type of bread that was so hard that you had to soak it in water to be able to eat it, it was still terribly hard and unhealthy