Hard-tack is NOT and never was a form of bannock; which is and always has been a leavened LOAF of bread.
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Hard-tack is NOT made using a Sourdough Starter in which you have killed the yeast.
Hard-tack is NOT leavened; bannock IS.
Hard-tack antedates other forms of bread by several ages of man; it must have been Neanderthal man who first patted meal (often made from bulrushes, cat-tails or other bulbs) and water into a thin cake and broiled or roasted it on a flat stone near his fire. In more modern times-when used aboard ships; hard-tack was baked as many a four times, to get EVERY BIT of moisture out of it. Hard-tack is so hard that it could be; and was used, in the cannons as grape-shot. You do not take hard-tack along with you on the trail to munch like soda crackers; it has to be soaked; for a considerable amount of time, before it is edible.
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