Kris wrote:


> I have wanted to make homemade crackers, though. I have several
> recipes I'd held on to that I keep meaning to try. But that's for
> taste reasons only - I keep Carr's table water crackers on hand for
> regular use.

I made homemade crackers once, by accident. I think the water was
probably too hot when I added it to the yeast. Or maybe the yeast was
old. Who knows? I think I was probably 10, maybe 11? at the time and
my mother treated my interest in cooking as some sort of aberration so
there was no useful feedback to be had from that quarter. And as far as
my dad was concerned, if it didn't come wrapped in a polka dotted
plastic bag it wasn't bread.

Me and my friends ate it anyway, with butter and strawberry jam, and
thought it tasted just fine.