battle cakes

[wizardbiz]

does anybody have any good recipies for battle cake, such as that cooked and eaten by the rogers rangers, and 18th centuary soldiers?? any info much appreciated.

[Woodwose]

I’ve never heard of Battle cake, but I do like the sound of it.
Maybe it’s the same thing as Bannock. A quick google suggests that Rogers Rangers used meal to make their cakes, which where then cooked on a flat stone on the fire ashes. I’m presuming they used cornmeal. I’ve never cooked bannock myself, always meant to, but just never got round to it.
Another thing to add to my, to-do list.

[JEEP]

Is it the same as hardtack?

[wizardbiz]

ive heard the main ingredient was flour, but have heard you can use a type of flour made from plantain seeds. you can then add anything you can trap/hunt either meat/fish. or any thing you can forage, ie fruit, greens, mushroom, or just about anything you want too. as suggested it is slowly baked on a flat stone or wooden board. its the main ingredient and process of preparing it that i have no knowledge of. it was im told a staple food of many campaigns, with many different moral boosting varietys.

[tadpole]

Is that the same as Dwarf fighting bread. Deadly at thirty paces....

[Terry]

are they also called johnny cakes? flour and your choice of anything else baked on a flat piece of wood or rock

[Ashley Cawley]

Dave Canterbury made some 'hard tack' recently in one of his Yurt Journal videos...


You might want to skip 3 minutes in to get to it...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoEigmIBkJI

[wizardbiz]

nice one ashley, just what im looking for.

[Ben Casey]

Cool vid there Ash :)