Bent's hardtack and hardtack crates were featured in the Warner Bros. movie Gods & Generals released February 21, 2003. Bent's Hardtack Cracker
For the survivors of the battles fought in the great "War Between the States" there was often a fate worse than death still to be faced; dinner. We hear of a song that was sung by the civil war soldier whose title remains unknown, but with a message that is very clear:
There's a hungry, thirsty soldier
Who wears his life away,
With torn clothes, whose better days are o'er
He is sighing now for whiskey
And, with throat as dry as hay,
Sings, "Hard crackers, hard crackers, Come again no more."
We here at Bent & Co., makers of the original hardtack of the Civil War, see this as nothing less than slanderous. In order to redeem the name of this fine food we would like very much for you to try our hardtack. Indeed, much of the damage to the hardtack cracker's reputation as the soldier's friend was the improper handling of the cracker rather than any fault in the cracker itself. Often the cracker was so stale as to be unbiteable, and just as often bug infested. This, we assure, you is no longer the case. Just as your bullets are blanks so as to cause you less pain in re-enacting the battles and skirmishes, so your Bent hardtack is packaged fresh in reseal able plastic so as to cause you less pain when re-enacting the supper. Because of the freshness of the cracker it can be eaten as is or prepared in any number of ways according to your taste and ingenuity. We hear of a dish called "skillygalee" in which the cracker is soaked in water and fried brown in pork fat, salting to taste. Though Julia Child may not serve this dish, neither would she go to the considerable trouble of dressing up in 1860's clothing and fight in the hot sun for a hilltop. The finer things in life must be gotten at some risk.
If you hold the spirit of authenticity dear, no other cracker will do. You have gone to considerable trouble to outfit yourself with all the proper attire and equipment, why not complete the outfit with the original hardtack? You will be singing the revised chorus of the above mentioned song,
"It is the dying wail of the starving,
Hard crackers, hard crackers, come again once more;
You were old and very wormy, but we pass your failings o'er,
O hard crackers, come again once more."
We salute you
http://www.bentscookiefactory.com/hardtack.htm
For the survivors of the battles fought in the great "War Between the States" there was often a fate worse than death still to be faced; dinner. We hear of a song that was sung by the civil war soldier whose title remains unknown, but with a message that is very clear:
There's a hungry, thirsty soldier
Who wears his life away,
With torn clothes, whose better days are o'er
He is sighing now for whiskey
And, with throat as dry as hay,
Sings, "Hard crackers, hard crackers, Come again no more."
We here at Bent & Co., makers of the original hardtack of the Civil War, see this as nothing less than slanderous. In order to redeem the name of this fine food we would like very much for you to try our hardtack. Indeed, much of the damage to the hardtack cracker's reputation as the soldier's friend was the improper handling of the cracker rather than any fault in the cracker itself. Often the cracker was so stale as to be unbiteable, and just as often bug infested. This, we assure, you is no longer the case. Just as your bullets are blanks so as to cause you less pain in re-enacting the battles and skirmishes, so your Bent hardtack is packaged fresh in reseal able plastic so as to cause you less pain when re-enacting the supper. Because of the freshness of the cracker it can be eaten as is or prepared in any number of ways according to your taste and ingenuity. We hear of a dish called "skillygalee" in which the cracker is soaked in water and fried brown in pork fat, salting to taste. Though Julia Child may not serve this dish, neither would she go to the considerable trouble of dressing up in 1860's clothing and fight in the hot sun for a hilltop. The finer things in life must be gotten at some risk.
If you hold the spirit of authenticity dear, no other cracker will do. You have gone to considerable trouble to outfit yourself with all the proper attire and equipment, why not complete the outfit with the original hardtack? You will be singing the revised chorus of the above mentioned song,
"It is the dying wail of the starving,
Hard crackers, hard crackers, come again once more;
You were old and very wormy, but we pass your failings o'er,
O hard crackers, come again once more."
We salute you
http://www.bentscookiefactory.com/hardtack.htm