Make your own crackers
1 Batch
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | cups | Sifted bread flour |
| 2 | cups | Warm water |
| ½ | Cake yeast | |
| 2 | tablespoons | Warm water |
| 1 | teaspoon | Baking soda |
| 1 | tablespoon | Salt |
| ⅓ | cup | Melted lard |
| 3 | More cups sifted flour | |
| Mrs. Mamie Rasmussen | ||
| Capper's Weekly | ||
| 7 April 1934 | ||
Directions
Sift the flour once and measure out 4 cups. Then soften the yeast in ¼ cup warm water. Combine with the remaining water and add to the flour.
Beat well. Cover this mixture and let stand in a warm place overnight. In the morning add baking soda and salt dissolved in 2 tablespoons warm water.
Add lard and beat well. Then add the other 3 cups of flour gradually, mixing until smooth after each addition. Cover and let rise again until double in volume.
Then turn on to a lightly floured board and knead until the dough is smooth and elastic and not sticky to touch. Divide into small portions and roll each out into a thin sheet. Cut with a cookie cutter and prick each one well with a fork. Bake in an oven about 500F. until a delicate brown.
Soda crackers are as old as the hills, but if you look in a recipe book to find how to make them, you may look in vain.
Submitted by John Hartman Indianapolis, IN 16 April 1996
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest by "John M. Hartman" <Hartman@...> on Feb 27, 1998