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Homemade Saltine Crackers Recipe

Homemade Saltine Crackers Recipe

These homemade saltine crackers come together in just 25 minutes with five basic ingredients. You mix flour, baking powder, a little butter, and milk to make a quick dough, roll it super thin, cut into squares, brush with egg wash, sprinkle with salt, and bake until crisp and golden. No yeast, no resting time, just fast, old-school snack goodness straight from the oven.
Buttery, crunchy, salty, and dangerously easy. Perfect with soup, cheese, peanut butter, or straight out of your hand.
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Servings: 36
Calories: 68
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 4 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 1/4 cup unsalted butter
  • 1 1/3 cups milk regular or nondairy works
  • Coarse salt for sprinkling
  • 1 egg white or yolk for brushing white = crispier
  • 1 tablespoon water

Method
 

  1. Mix the egg white with the tablespoon of water and set it aside like a tiny science experiment.
  2. Stir the flour and baking powder together.
  3. Cut the butter into the dry stuff until it looks crumbly like bad sandcastle sand.
  4. Pour in the milk and gently knead it into a dough ball.
  5. Divide the dough into 4 chunks.
  6. Roll each one out super thin. The thinner they are, the crunchier they get.
  7. Cut into squares or whatever shapes you like. Pizza wheel works great.
  8. Lay them on a baking sheet, give them fork pokes and brush lightly with the egg wash.
  9. Sprinkle salt.
  10. Bake at 325 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes. Start checking at 10 so you don’t end up with sad cracker fossils.
  11. Let cool. They crisp up as they cool!

Notes

If you make these crackers and half of them look like tiny pillows while the rest look like crispy leaves congratulations you are doing it perfectly. This recipe is about eating tasty things not winning awards. So roll the dough laugh at the flour mess and enjoy every crunchy bite you made with your own two hands.