It is easy to make your very own, old fashioned soda crackers from scratch. These soda crackers take no time at all to make and bake up quick.
Ingredients and Variations
Flour: This recipe uses nothing more than easy to find, regular old all purpose flour. You can also sub in a half cup of whole wheat flour (remove a half cup of all purpose flour) to make wheat soda crackers.
Fat: This recipe uses butter. Salted or unsalted, your choice.
Liquid: Buttermilk is best but if you don’t have it use whole milk with a teaspoon of lemon juice or apple cider vinegar. Powdered milk and evaporated milk work too. If you have no milk, water can also be used.
Old Fashioned Soda (Saltine) Crackers
30
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crackersFresh soda crackers
Ingredients
2 cups all purpose flour
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup cold butter, diced
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 tbsp. pretzel salt or large flake sea salt *optional
Directions
- Mix salt and baking soda in with flour. Cut cold butter into flour. Pour in buttermilk and mix until a stiff dough is formed. Fold dough on counter 6 – 8 times.
- Cover and let rest 20 minutes.
- Heat oven to 375°.
- Using a rolling pin on a lightly floured surface, roll dough out as thin as you can get it. Cut into squares using a cookie cutter, knife, bench scraper or pie wheel. Place crackers on a cookie sheet and using the tines of a fork, dock each cracker 3 times. Sprinkle with salt if desired.
- Bake @ 375° for 8 minutes or until the edges start turning golden.
- Cool on a wirer rack.
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