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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I didn't know it was still made; my memories of reading of hardtacl all had 
to do with The War Between The States, and I thought soldiers on both sides 
ate the stuff.  There is a Finnish restaurant in southern Florida that I have 
been to a few times.  I barely recall it except they had really disgusting 
smelly fish dishes :-)

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--- On Tue, 1/6/09, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Homesteading and beyond ... was Corn Fed
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 11:11 AM
> 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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