soda cracker

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noun

a thin, crisp cracker or wafer prepared from a yeast dough that has been neutralized by baking soda.

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Origin of soda cracker

First recorded in 1820–30

Well-cured and dry, it lent itself to grating and tasted fine on an old-fashioned buttered soda cracker.
The Complete Book of Cheese|Robert Carlton Brown
I bet an oyster against a soda cracker he's going down to that cornfield!
The Rover Boys at Colby Hall|Arthur M. Winfield
Me, I felt about as full of snap as a soda cracker in a Turkish bath.
Nor Iron Bars a Cage....|Gordon Randall Garrett
In size they are about like a common soda cracker, and in thickness about like two of them.
Diary of an Enlisted Man|Lawrence Van Alstyne

They're nothing but canned sardines, and all the bait you need to catch 'em is a pocketknife and a soda cracker.
The Gentle Grafter|O. Henry