 Modern graham crackers fresh from the box The graham cracker was developed in 1822 in Bound Brook, New Jersey, by Presbyterian minister Rev. Sylvester Graham. Though called a cracker, it is sweet rather than salty and so bears some resemblance to what Americans call a cookie and the British call a biscuit. The true graham cracker is made with graham flour, which is unsifted and coarsely ground wheat flour. Map showing location of Bound Brook in Somerset County Queens Bridge over Raritan River, Bound Brook, New Jersey Bound Brook is a borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. ...
Presbyterianism is part of the Reformed churches family of denominations of Christian Protestantism based on the teachings of John Calvin which traces its institutional roots to the Scottish Reformation, especially as led by John Knox. ...
Sylvester Graham (1794-1851) Sylvester Graham (July 5, 1794 – September 11, 1851) was born in Suffield, Connecticut, and was ordained in 1826 as a Presbyterian minister. ...
A Cheez-It cracker. ...
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Graham flour is a type of whole wheat flour named after the American Presbyterian minister Rev. ...
It was originally conceived of as a health food as part of the Graham Diet, a regimen to suppress what he considered unhealthy carnal urges, the source of many maladies according to Graham. Healthful eating is the act of following a balanced nutritional diet. ...
Sylvester Graham The Graham Diet was invented around 1829 by Sylvester Graham, a self proclaimed Physiological Reformer. It was based mainly on fresh fruits and vegetables, whole wheat and high fiber, and excluded meat and spices altogether. ...
Modern Use Many modern "graham crackers" are made of the refined, bleached white flour to which the Rev. Graham was implacably opposed. Some modern commercial graham crackers are no longer considered health food, but have remained popular as a snack food and breakfast cereal with greater amounts of sugar, honey and other sweeteners than in the original recipe, and far less graham flour, often with no whole-wheat flour whatsoever. Cinnamon or chocolate may be added to enhance the flavor of the crackers. Technically, crackers are not really graham crackers unless they are made with graham flour, which is a hard whole-wheat flour in which the constituent bran, germ, and endosperm have been ground separately, the first two coarsely and the third finely. An ingredient used in many foods, flour is a fine powder made from grain or other starchy food sources. ...
A snack food (commonly shortened to snack) is seen in Western culture as a type of food not meant to be eaten as a main meal of the day (breakfast, lunch, dinner) but one that is intended rather to assuage a persons hunger between these meals, providing a brief...
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Binomial name J.Presl Cassia (Chinese cinnamon) is also commonly called (and sometimes sold as) cinnamon. ...
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See also Sylvester Graham The Graham Diet was invented around 1829 by Sylvester Graham, a self proclaimed Physiological Reformer. It was based mainly on fresh fruits and vegetables, whole wheat and high fiber, and excluded meat and spices altogether. ...
A common Smore A smore is a traditional campfire treat popular in the United States and Canada, consisting of a roasted marshmallow and a slab of chocolate sandwiched between two pieces of graham cracker. ...
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