Name: Soda Crackers
Ingredients: 16 cups flour; 2 ounces salt; 1 pint ferment; 1.5 ounces baking soda; 2 pounds lard; 1 quart water

Soda Crackers

Ingredients

Directions

Set a sponge overnight.
Dissolve the baking soda in a little water and mix it thoroughly into the dough.
Let the dough stand for four to five hours to become sour enough to absorb the soda.
Roll out the dough and cut it with soda cutters.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.