Confederate Biscuits - Civil War Rations

Soldiers in the Confederate army would receive flour as one of their staple rations. What options did they have to take something not edible as is and make it into something that would be? Andrew Bentley of the Manassas National Battlefield Park demonstrates one popular solution - turning that flour into delicious (hopefully!) biscuits!

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