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My son has to make biscuits that will last for 1 month unfrozen. His theme is "pirates" - I am at a loss....

― Katja, Thursday, 6 October 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

By "biscuits" do you mean cookies? Biscotti (or similarly twice-baked cookies) will last a month unfrozen if you don't make them with egg. Biscotti are good pirate chow because it wouldn't spoil on the long voyage and provided the pirates with much needed, um, vitamins. Yeah, vitamins.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 6 October 2005 06:07 (twenty years ago)

If the theme is pirates that's easy, just keep them in a jar

(it works best if you say the last two words in a pirate voice)

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 6 October 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)

Ship's biscuits last forever.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 6 October 2005 07:57 (twenty years ago)

To help suggest this is the right answer, href="http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:1IiEkR_6VUEJ:www.seaandlearn.co.uk/designtechnology2/filetodownload,24058,en.pdf+ship%27s+biscuits+recipe&hl=en">here is the teacher's guide to this part of the curriculum.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 6 October 2005 08:00 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, dunno what happened to the tags there.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 6 October 2005 08:00 (twenty years ago)

These were called "hard tack" in the US. Here's some other recipes: http://www.kenanderson.net/hardtack/recipes.html. The ones with a bit of sweetener sound marginally more palatable.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 6 October 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Hard tack is the same thing as biscotti, except that biscotti guarantees sugar, surely?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 6 October 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

biscotti = some flavor other than cooked flour. Also, is there some leavening in biscotti? I should make some. It's time to dip things: biscotti in tea, apples in warm caramel sauce, cornbread in bean soup.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 6 October 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

I guess there's a bit of leavning in biscotti. I just tore through my last batch (thank you, vin santo).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 7 October 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

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