In like 5th or 6th grade (whenever we were learning about the civil war) the teacher or some parent actually made hard tack from a civil war recipe and I gotta say, from seeing some fresh it doesn’t look like it changed much in those 153 years lmao. His was a bit redder, our fresh one was more the color you’d expect, and it was just as hard if the crunches and klinks are any indicator, but ours just tasted like blandness, his must’ve been stored with mothballs over the years. They didn’t give us any coffee though (or even mention soaking it, fed it to us dry), now I kinda want to make a sheet and try it again! Honestly I bet you could ad in some shit like cinnamon and it wouldn’t be too bad.
In like 5th or 6th grade (whenever we were learning about the civil war) the teacher or some parent actually made hard tack from a civil war recipe and I gotta say, from seeing some fresh it doesn’t look like it changed much in those 153 years lmao. His was a bit redder, our fresh one was more the color you’d expect, and it was just as hard if the crunches and klinks are any indicator, but ours just tasted like blandness, his must’ve been stored with mothballs over the years. They didn’t give us any coffee though (or even mention soaking it, fed it to us dry), now I kinda want to make a sheet and try it again! Honestly I bet you could ad in some shit like cinnamon and it wouldn’t be too bad.
Pretty much any additive would decrease its longevity. Of course, I’m not sure it matters if we’re talking decades versus years.
Max from Tasting History made his own as well