Poor man's desert

[Woods Dweller]

crackers / hardtack
Butter
Sugar
1 cup warm milk

Butter & sugar each cracker and place in bowl. Warm up the milk [do not boil] pour warm milk over crackers. Let sit for 1 or 2 min till crackers swell up and are soft.

My Dad made this for me as a kid and I still enjoy it. Dad told me that during the depression his Mother would make this for him to fill him up. He said it was handed down from his great grand Mother, He did not know how far back it went.

 

[Blizzard of '93]

another one is shortening bread that's had butter then maple syrup (even imitation made at home with flavoring and sugar water) smeared over it.

 

[R.C.BINGAMAN]

A touch of cinnamon and nutmeg,My grandmother used soda crakers she called these scalded crackers. very nice on a cold morning before going to the barn. A APPALICHIAN HUNTER