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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Homesteading and beyond ... was Corn Fed
  • Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:11:40 -0500

Hardtack is Yankee food. <g>
Seriously, probably it was eaten on both sides, but that doesn't mean it was made from wheat. Traditional Finnish hardtack is made from rye.

bobf wrote:
Bev, didn't they use hardtack, all through , at least the 19th
century. I believe hard tack is made only with flour..........

I suppose my
question to you historians out there is this: How common was the
use of wheat flour in the inland South(colonial to Civil War
times)?

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