So, today we are going to be talking about the Revolutionary War in terms of diet.
Now, the diet of the Revolutionary War soldier consists of stew, if they could find the ingredients
for it.
Hardtack which they could portion out the most in terms of rations, or some sort of
beer, or ale, if they could get it.
Now, in the Revolutionary War, the rations were always cut short, but hardtack was the
staple diet.
The reason being, was because it was easy to make, and it lasted for a very long time.
So, they could get about, ten to twelve biscuits per ration.
So today, we are going to be focusing on making hardtack whenever it comes to the Revolutionary
diet.
Now, hardtack was very simple to make.
It consisted of salt, flour, and water.
The reason why it was able to be portioned out so much is because it was so simple to
make and that's why they could make a lot of it in terms of rationing it out to the
soldiers.
So now we are actually going to be making the hardtack so what yu are going to do and
what I'm gonna do is we are going to be making it by hand.
The reason being is because that helps to feel the consistency because once you are
done with this youre going to want it to feel almost like pizza dough.
So what I'm going to do, is I'm going to take one cup of flour and I'm going to put it in
this bowl here that I have and I'm going to add the salt to the water make more of a saltwater
mixture.
And the reason you want to do that is because as you do that, and this is kind of tough
because I just bought it, but you're going to want to do this, and then you're going
to want to add water as you're mixing the flour.
The reason being, is you want to get the consistency just right, because you want it to be fairly
dry.
So, I have about enough salt.
Swirl it around a little bit. and then you're going to add water like I'm doing and then
you're going to mix it by hand.
And yes, it's going to get sticky and it is going to get gross, but we have sinks.
Back then they didn't.
So now what we are going to do is we are going to put the dough on this wax paper that we
have here.
What we are going to do first, is we are actually going to sprinkle flour on here and the reason
being, is that you don't want it to stick.
You want to be generous witht the flour.
That's the reason I put a lot on here.
So, now that we have our flour and we have our dough, all mixed up.
What you're going to do, this is what it lookes like.
What you're going to do, is you're going to in the flour and you're going to roll it out.
The reason why is becaue you're going to make it into a long sheet and you're going to want
it to be about maybe a little bit over an inch, which is about this much.
If you can see my fingers.
So what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to use our salt container, because I don't
have anything to roll it out with, but you just want to roll it out and you kind of want
it to make it into a thick sheet, and we are going to cut it up and then we're going to
put it onto our pan and then we are going to bake it.
So now, we are going to cut our hardtack.
And what you're going to do is your're gonna cut off the ends and I made an outline for
myself, because I'm not very good at cutting, and I could never cut anything straight.
After that once you get a nice rectangle, you're going to want to cut two inch squares
out.
Now, how much flour that you have varies however many squares.
I have enough to where I can make about four squares, then we're going to put it into an
ungreased oven pan, and then, we're going to our hardtack in an oven.
Now, back then, they had to cook it over a fire, but because it's today's times we are
going to cheat and use an oven.
So now that we have our hardtack cut up into our sheets that we need, we are going to put
it into the oven over here.
Now from here we are going to cook them for thirty minutes on one side , and then, after
thirty minutes we are going to flip them, and cook them for another thirty minutes.
Now back in the day, They would cook this over a fire probably a little bit longer,
because fires were not as hot as convetional ovens that we have here, but we're still going
to cheat considering this is the 21st Century and it's great.
Now that the hardtack is finall made, what I did was I made some beef stew, which back
in the Revolutionary War, it was possible for soldiers to make this, all they had to
do though was go out to a farm or a market.
If available, and they would have buy supplies.
Anyways, now that it's made what they typically did was they would dunk their hardtack into
the stew, or into either some water, or their beer/ale to soften it up because it is very
hard and that was how they would eat it.
So what i'm going to do is I'm actually going to try it and we'll see how this goes.
It's very hard.
It's not bad.
But, that's hpw you make hardtack.
I hope you have enjoyed this video and I enjoyed making hardtack.
It was very fun.
I can see why these guys would call these molar-breakers.
They are very, very hard.
It's like eating alomost a brick, honestly.
It's not bad.
It doesnt taste too bad.
So, that is this video.
I hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you next time.
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