08-06-2004, 09:24 PM
I was reading on Matt's site his recipe for hardtack and was wondering where he found the recipe.<br>
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www.larp.com/legioxx/messgear.html<br>
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Medieval hardtack or biscuit was "twice baked" - hence the word "biscuit". You take regular bread and grind it into powder; add water, and sometimes salt and oil; and form it into cakes before baking again. Gibbon reckons that the Romans used this double-baking method and the Byzantine <em>voukellon</em> was also apparently double-baked. I was wondering how likely it was that bucellatum was also double-baked.<br>
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www.larp.com/legioxx/messgear.html<br>
<br>
Medieval hardtack or biscuit was "twice baked" - hence the word "biscuit". You take regular bread and grind it into powder; add water, and sometimes salt and oil; and form it into cakes before baking again. Gibbon reckons that the Romans used this double-baking method and the Byzantine <em>voukellon</em> was also apparently double-baked. I was wondering how likely it was that bucellatum was also double-baked.<br>
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