Ship biscuit is actually hardtack or dry bread. It has to be dipped into vinegar to make it consumable before eaten. On the other hand cookies are pastry where the wet ingredients are egg and butter and last for many months at room temperature. Honey and raisins can also help to preserve them. Why didnt they stock imperial ships with cookies during the new age?

>>21459136 (OP)
Sugar, eggs and butter are far more expensive than flour and water. Why waste money on sailors?

>>21459136 (OP)
>It has to be dipped into vinegar to make it consumable before eaten
oh fuck off. no one did this.

>>21459136 (OP)
>Honey and raisins can also help to preserve them.
wrong sugar of any kind will cause them do go soft.

>>21459140
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>>21459388
why not just put it in water or better yet, some sort of stock. i bet a nice beef stock with hard tack, maybe a dash of salt, is very satisfying.

>>21459396
Where do you expect them to get beef stock when out on the open ocean? Lol

>>21460482
salt beef. they werent eating just hardtack

Plastic bags debuted as waterproof covers for rifles during the Normandy landings. Before that, the only thing that seemed like a convenient way to make waterproof packaging was waxed paper.

>>21459136 (OP)
>last for many months at room temperature
doubt unless they're extremely high in fat content.

>>21460482
They brought pigs, goats and chickens along. They also established bases on islands and ports along the way. British Imperialsm was actually "accidental". In order to replenish ships supplies, the Brits had to create stockpiles and strongholds along their trade routes. Those strongholds later turned into colonies.

>>21460482
The original "bovrite" was traditionally prepared by filtering boiling seawater through the captain's pantaloons.

>>21459136 (OP)
>where the wet ingredients are egg and butter and last for many months at room temperature.
Son

>>21462083
Its cool. its moist maritime air.

>>21459136 (OP)
Hard tack was used because it could survive any condition you threw at it. It's main enemy was bugs.

Preserved cookies, like the ones in modern MREs, are HARD. Like rock hard. But they last.

Back then they didn't have all the weird goyslop preservatives we have now that let Oreos last for months.

>>21459136 (OP)
You don't need Chips a'hoy when your ships a'hoy fatty.