Word: hardtack
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...pork--which is essentially really, really fatty unsmoked bacon--for a stew, using a split log as my cutting board. I don't know exactly how this stew will taste, but I am pretty sure it will include toothpicks. While I am chopping, I take my first bite of hardtack, the unspoilable bread substance the corps took with them. It's whole wheat flour, salt, water and a drop of butter, baked very crisp. And it's delicious, like a health-food-store wheat cracker. It would go great with goat cheese or pate. This last comment doesn't endear...