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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1906

"Hamburg bread," or hard biscuit (not to be confounded with pilot or sailor biscuit as popularly known, being thick and cake-like in shape and extraordinarily hard), is in constant use on the vessels and in the houses of the fishermen.

1917

[In the cookroom] the bill of fare consisted of pork and duff, Hamburg bread and butter, tea. . . .