/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18073813
>lasts for years

what's your favorite old survival food?

Has /ck/ ever made or eaten hardtack?

>Hardtack (or hard tack) is a simple type of biscuit or cracker made from flour, water, and sometimes salt.
>hardtack was a standard ration for many militaries and navies from the 17th through the early 20th centuries.
>With insect infestation common in improperly stored provisions, soldiers would break up the hardtack and drop it into their morning coffee.
> This would not only soften the hardtack but the insects, mostly weevil larvae, would float to the top, and the soldiers could skim off the insects and resume consumption.

soldiers are such cry-babies

I've been getting more into cooking lately, starting out with very simple easy recipes for now tho they're more fun anyway . Today I'm making hardtack, pic related, from this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPTdSMOQRnY&t=290s

I really like this guy, he makes good stuff. Also I recently learned to make eggs sunny side up and discovered seasoning for hamburgers. Plop a nice egg on a burger and that shit goes crazzyyy.

ITT: Other easy beginner recipes for idiots like me

The good shit.

>>14397231
Would get so poor I would have to fry hardtack for lunch out of flour, water, and salt.

ITT: We discuss different kinds of survival foods. Preferably homemade foods. Has anyone made Hardtack?

>>13404858
>>13404916
Tasty.

>>13049803
Hardtack aka Worm Castles

>>11901365
If you want rations try some hardtack.

I just moved into my first house. I'm not a "doomsday prepper" or anything, but I would like to prepare 30-60 days worth of food to keep in the basement in the event of an emergency or natural disaster.

What would /ck/ recommend? In order, my requirements are: (i) fairly inexpensive, since I'll probably never actually eat it, (ii) long shelf life, (iii) high-calorie, and (iv) light and portable. My requirements do NOT require it to be tasty or pleasant whatsoever. Again, I'll likely never eat it.

I was thinking about hard tack (aka sailer's biscuits). They're easy to make and can remain edible for 1-5 years. I was also looking into pemmican, which is much more expensive but also nutritious (http://www.offthegridnews.com/how-to-2/how-to-make-pemmican-a-survival-superfood-that-can-last-50-years/).).

I'm also open to buying it online rather than making it, but the markup on MRE's and stuff is crazy.

>>8109484
>never goes bad

Would /ck/ eat this?

>>6288754

hardtack isn't a cookie

Didn't that stuff get moldy and insect-infested all the time?

>>6201062

Oddly, I was just reading about hardtack on Wikipedia the other day. During the Civil War, soldiers apparently took advantage of hardtack that was leftover from the Mexican-American War (1846-18) ...

"With insect infestation common in improperly stored provisions, soldiers would break up the hardtack and drop it into their morning coffee. This would not only soften the hardtack but the insects, mostly weevil larvae, would float to the top and the soldiers could skim off the insects and resume consumption."