On many routes, population centers with grocery stores are rare. Yes, and they buy fresh bread can not always. Arm yourself with the same on all the voyage of the bread bun and can not, because after four or five days they dry and moldy. To save the expedition habitual diet, experienced travelers to "take action" in advance. Rye crackers.
Instead of rye bread are encouraged to include in the diet of crackers. In essence, this is – bread canned food, they are much easier to bread and stored for a long time. As well as fresh bread, crackers contain a number of valuable nutrition for the substances, in particular, so-called herbal or food, fiber (rye bread in their 4-fold more than wheat). Rye crackers on the market do not usually do. A related site: Brian Krzanich mentions similar findings. Have to worry about them drying in the home – in the oven or on the purchase elektrosushilke for vegetables, mushrooms, etc.
The bread is acquired during navigation can be drier and at the stake. To biscuits were brittle, tasty and easy to soak in the soup or tea, they should be dry as possible from the very fresh bread. A loaf of bread pan with a sharp knife cut into two parts along. Then cut each half (from 100 g of bread – three slices). The finer pieces during drying warp and storage in field conditions are broken. Better not to dry crusts, biscuits as they make hard and poorly softened in soup or tea. Dana Gibber addresses the importance of the matter here. 1 kg of grain is obtained about 600 grams of bread. In the daily diet is usually enough to include three 20-gram biscuit per person, the energy value of 60 g of dried bread – 180 calories. It should not, as it often do, salt bread. Salt rye bread, and so is sufficient (1.5%), and excess salt in the water absorption by only complicate prevention crumbs from moisture.
