How to Make Survival Bread

[Sheila]

How to Make Survival Bread



Turn on the oven and preheat it to 400 degrees. Wash your hands thoroughly.

Pour 4 cups of flour and 4 teaspoons of salt into a mixing bowl. Mix them together with a spoon.



Add water to the flour and salt mixture, a little at a time, while you mix it by hand. The mixture should stick together but not to your hands or the rolling pin. The idea is to use as little water as possible to achieve this.


Roll out the dough with the rolling pin, shaping it into a large rectangle, until it's about 1/2 inch thick.


Cut the dough with the knife, creating squares that are 3-by-3 inches. Poke each square with a clean nail without punching completely through the dough, making a 4-by-4 pattern of holes. Repeat this hole pattern on the other side as well. The holes will enable you to break the bread easier once it's cooked.


Put the bread dough on an ungreased cookie sheet and place them in the oven. Bake the dough for 20 to 25 minutes. The edges of the bread should be lightly browned.


Wait until the bread is completely dry before removing it from the oven. Store the survival bread in a closed container away from moisture.

[Valerie]

Is this like what they used to call hardtack?

[Sheila]

Don't know never heard of hardtack.

[Granny Smith]

Yep, it's hardtack~

www.wikihow.com/Make-Hardtack

Here's more information, including some history~

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtack

[Sheila]

So basically it's a cracker.Think I'll make some up put them in Mylar bags with an 02 absorber you never know when you might need soup dunker.

[Sheila]

On second thought reading the article eating these can be dangerous teeth or dentures so maybe using them in a sling shot would be more of a benefit in case you needed a handy weapon hey David used it. At least until the Government finds away of banding them.

[Valerie]

You could shoot the hardtack out of the slingshot and use it to kill a squirrel to eat!

[Cyngbaeld]

After they cool, put them in a plastic bag and let set a couple of days, then put back in a slow oven for several hours. You want to make sure all the moisture is out. Frequently they will seem dry, but there will be some moisture in the center. They will keep just about forever if you get them completely dry and keep bugs and mice away from them.

[Sheila]

Apr 5, 2013 12:31:31 GMT -5 Valerie said:

You could shoot the hardtack out of the slingshot and use it to kill a squirrel to eat!

Catch me a opossum

[eyeofthestorm]

I have a book somewhere about Laura Ingalls Wilder -- her life after her last book, The First Four Years. When they moved to Missouri, before she left, she made these. I have always wondered how they actually ATE them.

[Valerie]

Maybe if you dunk it in tea or soak it in milk. Reckon that's what the elven bread was in LOTR, that one bite would last an elf (but not a hobbitt) for a whole day?