Hard tack

You can make candy at home with this easy Hard Tack Candy recipe. Learn how to craft these delightful, glass-like sweets that are perfect for Christmas, special occasions, or as a unique, handmade gift. Explore a world of flavors and colors with a recipe that's as versatile as it is delicious.

This homemade hard tack candy is a classic old fashioned candy that will bring back so many memories. The brightly colored candies

Enjoy making this simple recipe for old fashioned hard tack candy. You're kids will love making and eating it! And, it takes only 30 minutes to make.

Did y’all know January is National Candy Month? While you can celebrate by pigging out on store-bought candy, I highly recommend you give this rock candy (or as my friend Shelby calls it, hard tack candy) a try! It’s actually super easy to make, y’all, but I do encourage you round up a helper! I’ll…

Hardtack has a long shelf life and can be used in a variety of ways. Included are recipes for hardtack, soft-tack and fried-tack.

Originally written in the March 2009 – Issue 20 Newsletter of Practically Primitive (www.practicallyprimitive.com) Imagine a bread that is healthy and nutritious, easy to make, simple to carry, requires no refrigeration and will last indefinitely on a shelf or in a backpack. How handy! Of course, it also happens to be as hard as rock. A staple of cowboys, hikers ...

This Old fashioned hard tack candy recipe is a popular Christmas candy. I'll show you how to make and cut this traditional holiday candy recipe step by step.

Not quite a cookie, and almost a cracker, hard tack is a traditional flat bread of the Scandanavian kitchen. My grandmother served hers with butter and orange marmalade, which I always enjoyed. T…

Previously I mostly just thought of hardtack as being something eaten by Civil War soldiers. It actually goes back to the time of the Egyptians, used by sailors. The good thing about hardtack (from a sailor or Civil War perspective) is that it can last for years if it stays dry and is kept away from bugs and such. It is light and easy to transport (think backpacking) but is dense, so it holds a lot of nutrition. I have wanted to make some for about a year now. I finally got around to trying…