How to make the hard tack

Here is what you’ll need to make it:

1.2 cups of flour

2.¾cup of water

3.1teaspoon salt

You’ll also need a big mixing bowl, a cookie sheet, aknife, a rolling pin and a pencil crayon.

Here are the directions:

1.Turnthe oven on to 400 degrees.

2.Put2 cups of flour into the mixing bowl.

3.Add¾ cup of water into the mixing bowl.

4.Add1 teaspoon of salt into the mixing bowl.

Mix the three ingredients together. You can use yourhands, just like the soldiers did!

Bake the dough for 30 minutes. Then, flip over thehard tack and let it bake for another 30 minutes.

Then it’s time to eat it! Remember that it will bevery HARD. You can soak it in warm water or coffee to soften it.

When you’re eating the hard tack, think of the CivilWar soldiers eating this day after day.