Just ate some graham crackers today, after not having any in a long time. They are good plain, or even when they're used as a crust for a special dessert. I used to like spreading butter on graham crackers when I was little.





A little history about graham crackers:

Graham cracker
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The graham cracker was developed in 1829 in Bound Brook, New Jersey, by Presbyterian minister Rev. Sylvester Graham. Conceived of as a "health food", it is more like a digestive biscuit than a cracker. The true graham cracker is made with graham flour, which is unsifted and coarsely ground wheat flour. He used this due to its high fiber content.

His original "Graham bread" was the centerpiece of the Graham Diet, a regimen to suppress what he considered unhealthy carnal urges, the source of many maladies according to Graham.

He gained many followers including James Caleb Jackson who would invent granula.

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 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 simply a coarsely-ground hard whole-wheat flour.
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thanks alot . as i eat my boring pretzels i have graham cracker envy.

i also recently rediscovered graham crackers! along with marhsmallows and chocolate

such sweet, malty goodness

XxAxX said:

Smores

They're the base used in Wagon Wheels in the UK. They're not called Wagon Wheels in the US - but I can't remember what you call them (and I'm too lazy to Google).



They have marshmallow and chocolate on them.

I love the cinnamon/sugar ones!!!

Justin1972UK said:

I think we call them Pinwheels here in the U.S. Oh yes, here's a pic:



They're made by Nabisco:




Used to love eating these as a kid too.

psychodelicide said:

I have some more history for you concerning these crackers! The flour that makes Graham crackers...was discovered by my families great, great, great, great..(you get the idea) ancestor.
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thanks alot . as i eat my boring pretzels i have graham cracker envy.

i also recently rediscovered graham crackers! along with marhsmallows and chocolate

such sweet, malty goodness

ColAngus said:

atleast you have pretzels, I sit here with nothing but my morning coffee, and an hour and a half till lunch...with nothing in my tummy!

MoniGram said:

Really?

I think about being a kid whenever I eat them with applesauce and Kool-Aid.

AnckSuNamun said:

Smores!!! God, what a great childhood memory..

AnckSuNamun said:

Never had graham crackers with applesauce, I should try it sometime.

i bought these real expensive organic graham crackers from whole foods.

my mouth was all watering for them when i got home. so i opened them and took a big bite and it tasted like i took a scoop of fibre laxative and shoved it in my mouth!

I got the wrong box i figured out. I got the plain instead of the brown sugar cinnimon ones

psychodelicide said:

so graham crackers were discovered

psychodelicide said:

my great great grandmas great uncle invented applesauce

One of my favorite treats as a child was making little graham cracker/cake frosting sandwiches.

One of my favorite treats as a child was making little graham cracker/cake frosting sandwiches.

Justin1972UK said:

I think we call them Pinwheels here in the U.S. Oh yes, here's a pic:



Used to love eating these as a kid too.