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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

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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