Trivial Pursuit

It's for an English word that describes a bread that has been preserved by toasting or heating. Naturally the bread is no longer fresh; it's hard and usable only for dunking in soups or stews or maybe used as a thickener. But the bread keeps for a long while without becoming mouldy. As I understand it the bread required no special handling, just hung in bags or sacks until it was used.

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stark
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Hardtack?

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Dave Bell

Could be. There's something called rusk and there's zweibach, but I was thinking there's a specific name for bread in whole loaf preservation. There's a small treatise on reconstituting stale bread in The Bread Book dtd 1640 which instructs one to dip the loaf in cold water then heat in a gentle oven, claiming that the bread tastes almost fresh.

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stark

Seabiscuit?

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the pilgrim

Nah, he quit racing decades ago.

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JimL

Sounds like a rusk to me.

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Melba's Jammin'

That may be it, or the closest I'm gonna get. I remember it as Holland rusk but English accepts all comers. Thanks.

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stark

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