hardtack
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Cramped inside vessels overladen with precious cargo, crewmembers subsisted on a miserable diet of hardtack, an unleavened bread, and salted meat and fish that routinely spoiled and left many gravely ill.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
He made a tidy sum selling the government hard, dry bread and biscuits - known as hardtack - for Union soldier rations.
From Washington Times • Aug. 30, 2020
Some sailors use pilot bread — a thick, crackerlike item similar to Colonial-era hardtack, which doesn’t go stale — to settle their stomachs.
From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2018
Even more distinctly Alaskan is the pairing of the spread with pilot bread, hardtack that can withstand the elements and the passing of time out in the wild.
From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2015
Finally he and a sailor swam to another island and discovered a hidden camp where some native islanders had kept fresh water and hardtack and crackers.
From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos
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The American Civil War
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