Sift rye flour, soda &and salt. Add fat & buttermilk. Mix hard with white flour.

Roll thin and bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 40 minutes. Then let dry on top of oven until crisp.

Note: Lowering the oven temperature and cooking longer will create a dryer, crisper result. Some recipes recommend an hour at 300.

To make Hard Tack into a breakfast dish: Beat together 3 large eggs and 1/2 cup milk. Add about 1 and 1/2 cups crumbled hard tack crackers. Stir to coat. Let set until hard tack becomes softened. Cook over medium heat in a greased frying pan as you would cook scrambled eggs. Serve with jam or maple syrup. (See similar recipe: Matzah Brie aka Fried Matzah)


A simple cracker that dates back to the era of King Richard I. The reason it's here is because it can be used like Matzah to create a unique breakfast dish.

Mr Breakfast would like to thank linda30 for this recipe.

From Smarty Pants

I'm sure when our brave, bold soldiers and sailors were building the British Empire hard tack was made quicker and easier than this.

Comment submitted: 3/28/2008 (#4908)

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