Your forgotten feasts, ready to cook.

Name: What Did Sailors Eat in the Age of Sail?
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: Makes about 12 biscuits
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 500 g plain or wholemeal flour, plus extra for dusting; 250 ml water; 2 tsp salt; to serve (the sailor's way): strong tea, salt pork broth, or a bowl of pease soup

Save the recipes you love, label them, and let us shuffle a weekly menu from your own collection.

What Did Sailors Eat in the Age of Sail?

Ship's biscuit, salt beef, grog and the war on scurvy — the grim, ingenious diet that kept sailors alive on months-long voyages in the Age of Sail.

← All articles