I developed this recipe because most grocery store crackers contain sugar and vegetable fat, neither of which I want in my diet. These are perfect to take to longer camping events as a bread-like thing to nibble, as they keep well all event (if you don’t eat them up before the event ends).

  • 7 c flour
  • 4 t baking powder
  • Salt
  • 50 g butter
  • 1.5 c water (more or less depending on humidity, but it really was that amount, once)
  • Plus 50 more g butter, melted to spread on top
  • little coarse salt to sprinkle on top
  1. Mix the flour, baking powder, and salt.
  2. Cut in the first 50 g of butter till evenly distributed.
  3. Stir in enough water to make a soft dough.
  4. Divide the dough into eight equal sized balls and cover
  5. Roll out one ball of dough at a time quite thin. I use my hand-crank pasta mill, and run it through the first five (of six) levels.
  6. Prick small holes on top of the crackers. I use my spiked thin bread rolling tool:
  7. Place the rolled dough on a baking pan, brush with melted butter and sprinkel on a little salt
  8. Cut the dough into cracker sized chunks. I use a rolling pasta cutter.
  9. Bake in a hot oven (200 C) till crisp and just starting to turn lightly golden.
  10. Store in a glass jar (at home), or a wooden box (at events).