Pilot Bread / Hardtack

richlevy · 07-26-2009, 10:54 AM

I was very curious about pilot bread, the modern version of hardtack. What I find really interesting is that it is not sold in stores anywhere on the East coast, even though the company that makes it is based in Virginia.

It appears that I can only get it mail order. Alaska is the main consumer, based on pilot bread having a very good shelf life, but it is not as if noone else in the country might find themselves cut off for days due to natural disaster.

I don't want to buy a 2lb can of it from Amazon, and I don't want to pay shipping on a small box of Sailor Boy pilot bread. I would like to find someplace on the East coast to get it from. But it appears that the product goes directly from the factory to Alaska.

I'm surprised that they don't try to market it to the other 300+ million Americans.

Glinda · 07-26-2009, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by richlevy

I was very curious about pilot bread, the modern version of hardtack. What I find really interesting is that it is not sold in stores anywhere on the East coast, even though the company that makes it is based in Virginia.

It appears that I can only get it mail order. Alaska is the main consumer, based on pilot bread having a very good shelf life, but it is not as if noone else in the country might find themselves cut off for days due to natural disaster.

I don't want to buy a 2lb can of it from Amazon, and I don't want to pay shipping on a small box of Sailor Boy pilot bread. I would like to find someplace on the East coast to get it from. But it appears that the product goes directly from the factory to Alaska.

I'm surprised that they don't try to market it to the other 300+ million Americans.

Doesn't hardtack supposedly taste like ass?

Cloud · 07-26-2009, 01:51 PM

They don't sell it in the West that I've seen either, but maybe I'm not shopping in the same stores you are.

TheMercenary · 07-26-2009, 03:50 PM

Interesting. I have never heard of pilot bread. I wonder what it tastes like?

Kitsune · 07-26-2009, 07:28 PM

Mmmm... yummy om nom.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-26-2009, 07:44 PM

Sounds like my kind of baking.

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....Roll the dough out to a half-inch thickness before cutting it with a floured biscuit cutter or bayonet.

...Now put 16 little holes in each one, using a 10 d nail or some other such thing.

Kitsune · 07-26-2009, 08:55 PM

This stuff sounds really vile, so of course I have to try making some!

The recipe is really simple.

...or you can just buy 'em. Looks like some camping stores might sell them, although fairly pricey for something so basic. SportAss even sells them.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-26-2009, 10:02 PM

Baked for an hour @ 400.

Perry Winkle · 07-26-2009, 11:15 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Baked for an hour @ 400.

Gotta get all the moisture out somehow.

Urbane Guerrilla · 07-27-2009, 12:53 AM

There's a reason they called 'em "tooth dullers." A Civ-War reenactor of my slight acquaintance fascinated his dentist once in an emergency appointment -- he'd busted a tooth on hardtack the previous weekend.

07-26-2009, 10:54 AM	#1
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Pilot Bread / Hardtack I was very curious about pilot bread, the modern version of hardtack. What I find really interesting is that it is not sold in stores anywhere on the East coast, even though the company that makes it is based in Virginia. It appears that I can only get it mail order. Alaska is the main consumer, based on pilot bread having a very good shelf life, but it is not as if noone else in the country might find themselves cut off for days due to natural disaster. I don't want to buy a 2lb can of it from Amazon, and I don't want to pay shipping on a small box of Sailor Boy pilot bread. I would like to find someplace on the East coast to get it from. But it appears that the product goes directly from the factory to Alaska. I'm surprised that they don't try to market it to the other 300+ million Americans. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

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TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Interesting. I have never heard of pilot bread. I wonder what it tastes like? __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

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Kitsune still eats dirt Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 3,031	This stuff sounds really vile, so of course I have to try making some! The recipe is really simple. ...or you can just buy 'em. Looks like some camping stores might sell them, although fairly pricey for something so basic. SportAss even sells them. Last edited by Kitsune; 07-26-2009 at 09:04 PM.

07-26-2009, 10:02 PM	#8
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Baked for an hour @ 400. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-26-2009, 07:28 PM	#5
Kitsune still eats dirt Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 3,031	Mmmm... yummy om nom.

07-27-2009, 12:53 AM	#10
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	There's a reason they called 'em "tooth dullers." A Civ-War reenactor of my slight acquaintance fascinated his dentist once in an emergency appointment -- he'd busted a tooth on hardtack the previous weekend. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

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