Coffee Soup

You can also take those buttered crackers from earlier and smash them up into hot sugared coffee to make coffee soup. Snacks like these might become meals for those who had little, and we can imagine a treat like this one subbing for breakfast rather nicely.

Via/ Library of Congress

Hello Dolly Bars

You may know them as magic bars and you may have made them with graham crackers, but the first recipes for this treat were made with saltines.

Via/ Flickr

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