How was hard tack made?

[Delmonico]

For those down south who lacked the wheat, there is a corn meal version of the same thing, just put boiling water on the cornmeal first.

[Mogorilla]

Yup, those would be corn dodgers (at least Rooster Cogburn said they were).  I like them way better than hardtack, and I love crackers.   I have made both hardtack and corn dogers, will eat corn dodgers any day over the other.   I posted my recipe over in the cooking section some time ago.

[harleydavis]

The story goes that one of the manufactures of hard bread back in the day, stamped the company initials of "BC" in their product. The soldiers said that "B.C. stood for Before Christ since the stuff had to be that old"!!! Best advice is to always soak it for a spell. You can bust it up, soak it and mix in some corn meal into a paste. Fry it up in your salt pork grease, aint just too bad. Funny what passes for good tastin' when you are hungry enough.