Wheat Meal Crackers
Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven
Ingredients
Directions
Mix fresh ground wheat meal with cold water to form a very stiff dough.
Knead slightly and roll out to a thickness of ¼ inch or less.
Mark the rolled dough into 2-inch squares with a knife.
Prick the squares and bake in a dry oven until crisp, being careful not to burn them.
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.
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