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Here are a couple recipes using ingredients actually in the rations of Civil War soldiers.
Hardtack Pudding: This is a tasty little treat that Federal soldiers invented. This took a bit of scrounging to get the extra ingredients that were not part of the rations.
Union Skillygalee:
Hardtack Pudding: This is a tasty little treat that Federal soldiers invented. This took a bit of scrounging to get the extra ingredients that were not part of the rations.
- Take 1-2 full pieces of hardtack and wrap it up in a clean cloth
- Break the hardtack up until it is almost a powder
- In a frying pan, combine the crushed hardtack, one handful of flour, brown sugar, salt, and enough water to make a dough. This dough may be sticky so use flour on your hands to knead and roll it into a ball.
- Pat the dough out until it is flat
- Place on the dough any fruit that you may have in your possession
- Fold the dough over into a dumpling making sure to pinch the edges shut
- Wrap the dumpling into a clean cloth and place it, cloth and all, into a pan of simmering water
- Let the dumpling cook for around 15-20 minutes or until cooked.
- Remove from the cloth and eat
Union Skillygalee:
- Hardtack, broken into small chunks
- Water
- Salt Pork
- Bacon grease
- Break up hardtack into small chunks in the bottom of a bowl.
- Soak hardtack for 10-15 minutes or until soft.
- While hardtack is soaking, fry up some salt pork. After frying, chop the pork into small pieces.
- Dump the soaked hardtack pieces into grease remaining in frying pan. Return the chopped salt pork to the skillet also.
- Fry this until heated through.
- Remove from heat and eat.