hard tact

[JNG]

I am working up my hunt this fall am going to use hard tact. I read a slew of how to make, but none say's anything about honey!
does it work?

Thanks,
Joe

[Pete44ru]

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There's a few different recipes for making hardtack: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Hardtack


This one involves honey: http://www.survival-manual.com/hard-tack-bread.php


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[Old Ironsights]

Just go buy some Zwieback Biscuits from the Baby section of your local grocer. Zwieback is essentially a sweet hard tack.

[Grizz]

Just go buy some Zwieback Biscuits from the Baby section of your local grocer. Zwieback is essentially a sweet hard tack.

that's hilarious. I mean, is it really hardtack if you don't need a hammer to tenderize it and mash in the protein cooties, after soaking it in boiling water for the off watch?

[7.62 Precision]

http://arcticsid.blogspot.com/2010/03/s ... -that.html

[Old Ironsights]

Just go buy some Zwieback Biscuits from the Baby section of your local grocer. Zwieback is essentially a sweet hard tack.

that's hilarious. I mean, is it really hardtack if you don't need a hammer to tenderize it and mash in the protein cooties, after soaking it in boiling water for the off watch?

Have you ever stolen Zweiback from a baby? Those dang "teething cookies" would break a rottweiler's teeth...

[Blaine]

Just sayin', but several boxes of no salt soda crackers would do me just fine....... They'll stay fresh pretty near forever.

[Grizz]

http://arcticsid.blogspot.com/2010/03/s ... -that.html

Yup. Standard fare aboard all my fishing vessels. Never left port without 'em. Plus a jar or several of strawberry and grape jam.

[Rusty]

Does anyone sell them mail order?

The only thing I could find was Mountain House on Amazon, but not the same brand.

[Rusty]

OK I found it.

https://www.spanalaskasales.com/about.html

[JNG]

Thank you Pete, I do understand that you might buy ready made, but I wish to make my own. Btw my best lunch is instant grits and jjerky in a cup.
joe

[Old Ironsights]

Use ground dried mormon crickets 1:1 in place of flour and it will be slightly sweet and high protien too...

[Ysabel Kid]

Use ground dried mormon crickets 1:1 in place of flour and it will be slightly sweet and high protien too...

Hmmm. That sounds interesting. It would reduce the carbs to next to nothing, and make it very high in protein. Sounds potentially like a good travel snack for those trying to lose weight.

Where does one get "ground dried Mormon crickets"?

[Blaine]

Use ground dried mormon crickets 1:1 in place of flour and it will be slightly sweet and high protien too...

That's some sick Pelosi. ....

[Old Ironsights]

Use ground dried mormon crickets 1:1 in place of flour and it will be slightly sweet and high protien too...

Hmmm. That sounds interesting. It would reduce the carbs to next to nothing, and make it very high in protein. Sounds potentially like a good travel snack for those trying to lose weight.

Where does one get "ground dried Mormon crickets"?

Actually, there are a few places on the interwebs to buy "food grade insects" (very expensive), but in general it's an old school Native/Tribal thing... You dig a few shallow & wide trenches, fill them with sagebrush - which you set on fire - then drive all the wingless critters (mormon crickets aren't really "crickets" but really a relative of the wingless katydid) from the surrounding square mile or so into the trenches and they die/pre-roast. Then you can send your squaws/kids to collect the corpses by the hundredweight to be ground into flour...

However, I do expect that EntoFood (entomologically (bug) based food) will become more prevalent in the future, so you don't need to catch and eat your own termites....

[Old Ironsights]

Use ground dried mormon crickets 1:1 in place of flour and it will be slightly sweet and high protien too...

That's some sick Pelosi. ....

Why? I may not be into eating roast/fried/dried bugs that still look like bugs, but if they are ground into a useable Flour... why not?

Hell, I've eaten weirder things in Asia... (1000 year Eggs... etc.)

Won't ever replace venison, BUT...

Insects are an amazingly useful and cheap renewable resource.

[Blaine]

Use ground dried mormon crickets 1:1 in place of flour and it will be slightly sweet and high protien too...

That's some sick Pelosi. ....

Why? I may not be into eating roast/fried/dried bugs that still look like bugs, but if they are ground into a useable Flour... why not?

Hell, I've eaten weirder things in Asia... (1000 year Eggs... etc.)

Won't ever replace venison, BUT...

Insects are an amazingly useful and cheap renewable resource.

DADT

[missionary5155]

Greetings
Down here in Peru out in the villages everything is "util" or useful. The scorpions are a ready snack. The small grey ones have no flavor raw. I do not eat spiders but the kids have the fuzzy "hunters" down in a blink. The large white grubs that get "squeeze gutted" and chewed up. I pass on the raw ones. Not bad fried or sun dried.
Generally in the land of plenty, our issue is we have not yet really been hungry.
Mike in Peru

[walks with gun]

I lived with a very sweet, very pretty young lady for several years, just about everything she made though reminded me of Hardtack. I was thinner then.

[Blaine]

I've caught too many bugs in my mouth while riding....every one of them was nasty. If I needed the food, that's a different story, I'd imagine. Smooshed, rinsed, dried, and mixed in with something else..maybe breast of crow, and cooked...mmmmm

[Rusty]

I once saw a recipe for hartack that had rice as one of the ingredients. It was in there so you could feel like you were eating the weevils.

[walks with gun]

Sometimes you have to choose, which is the lesser of two weevils.

[Blaine]

Sometimes you have to choose, which is the lesser of two weevils.

Boll....