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Hardtack - Easy to Make, Hard to Eat
Hardtack, a tough, flat, bland cracker, they contain protein, vitamins and a fair amount of calories. It is known by other names such as pilot bread, ship's biscuit, ship biscuit, sea biscuit, cabin bread, sea bread or pejoratively "dog biscuits", "tooth dullers", "sheet iron", "worm castles", "edible rock ", or "molar breakers".
If the hardtack is un-moistened, it is nearly hard enough to stop a musket ball. Unless kept dry while in storage, the biscuits would quickly grow moldy and spoil. But even it is kept dry, they could easily become infested with weevil larvae or maggots. Sailors and soldiers alike would remove the parasites by soaking the biscuits in coffee or water and then skimming the critters off when they floated to the surface. Others preferred to simply dim the lights and try to choke down the biscuits weevils and all.
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