Pounded common crackers or ship biscuits served as thickening.
It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuits and salted pork cut up into little flakes! the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt".
It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuits, and salted pork cut up into little flakes! the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt'.
Ship biscuits (something like hard tack) were used to thicken them.
The ship's biscuit might actually be ripe for a modern makeover: "Ideal for the busy health-conscious executive looking to combine eating with exercise, this nutritious snack must first be defeated in hand-to-hand combat".
The whole point about three ounces of ship's biscuit and half a pint of water a day under the burning sun, is that they are just that; and that in time they will reduce you to eating the heart and liver of your friend.
Like ship's biscuit pounded flat, this book is thinner but larger than the rest of the series (which W. W. Norton is simultaneously reissuing in a boxed set) because it includes not only the author's revised typescript but a facsimile of the original manuscript.
All the pre-match prognostications were that the pitch, dry as a ship's biscuit, would not only produce the best batting conditions of the match over the first few days but would then deteriorate gradually: batting first was non-negotiable and Alastair Cook had little hesitation.
A ship's biscuit that went to Antarctica with Captain Scott, for example, has far greater value than an ordinary 1911 ship's biscuit.
For sustenance the crew of the raft had only a bag of ship's biscuit (consumed on the first day), two casks of water (lost overboard during fighting) and a few casks of wine.
It consisted of passengers' leftovers, mixed with ship's biscuits and reheated.
