What exactly is graham, as in the cracker? Is it a grain, a spice, or what?!
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Graham bread was invented by Sylvester Graham in 1829, for his vegetarian diet!. The Graham bread was high in fiber, made with non-sifted whole wheat flour and was made into little squares we now know as graham crackers!.
Inventor: Sylvester Graham
Criteria: First to invent!. First practical!. Entrepreneur!.
Birth: July 5, 1794, in West Suffield, Connecticut
Death: September 11, 1851, in Northampton, Massachusetts
Nationality: American
Invention: graham cracker in 1829
Function: noun / graham flour bread
Definition: A slightly sweet cracker made of whole wheat flour named after inventor Sylvester GrahamWww@FoodAQ@Com
Inventor: Sylvester Graham
Criteria: First to invent!. First practical!. Entrepreneur!.
Birth: July 5, 1794, in West Suffield, Connecticut
Death: September 11, 1851, in Northampton, Massachusetts
Nationality: American
Invention: graham cracker in 1829
Function: noun / graham flour bread
Definition: A slightly sweet cracker made of whole wheat flour named after inventor Sylvester GrahamWww@FoodAQ@Com
It's the guy that invented them!. Mr!. Graham!.
The person that gave me a thumbs down (Deborah L) doesn't know what the hell she is talking about!. Sylvester Graham invented Graham Crackers in 1829!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
The person that gave me a thumbs down (Deborah L) doesn't know what the hell she is talking about!. Sylvester Graham invented Graham Crackers in 1829!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
It's a grain!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
"Graham" has to do with the flour!. It's wheat flour but it's ground differently!. I'm not sure of the difference!. I think they were developed by Dr!. Kellogg!. And (completely useless trivia here) they were originally intended to decrease sexual arousal!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Graham Flour and Graham Cracker
Most Americans fondly recall eating graham crackers with milk as a childhood snack!. Graham crackers are made from graham flour, but what is graham flour!?
Flour
The main component of most cracker recipes is wheat flour, which is obtained by grinding wheat seeds into a powder!. Whole-wheat flour is composed of the three main parts of the wheat seed, the outer coat or bran, the germ, and the endosperm!. The bran and germ are larger particles which add flavor, fiber, and color to the flour!. The endosperm is responsible for the important baking characteristics!. It is primarily composed of starch and protein, which when combined with water creates a mass, called gluten, that can be stretched and rolled without breaking!. This property allows dough to be formed into various sizes and shapes!.
The distinctive flavor and texture of graham cracker flour comes from the size of the flour particles used!. For the correct taste, the flour must have the correct combination of small, medium, and large particles!. If this combination is not right, the crackers will either turn out crumbly or have lumps!.
Thus!.!.!.
Sylvester Graham (1795-1851)
Inventor of graham flour and the graham cracker
Sylvester Graham was an American Presbyterian minister (ordained in 1826) who preached on temperance and stressed whole-wheat flour and vegetarian diets!. He was known for his graham crackers!. His Graham Journal of Health and Longevity preached his principles of good health!. He compared people physiologically to orangutans, and concluded that vegetarian food was natural for both primates!.
Graham had many devoted followers, known as Grahamites, who slavishly followed his principles, which included temperance, sexual restraint, and baths, in addition to vegetarianism!. He was so famous that his lectures on proper living were attended by thousands, and he was able to hold his audiences spellbound!. He had many disciples who also worked diligently to further the vegetarian cause!. When the British Vegetarian Society was founded in 1847, he helped found a similar group in America (see American Vegetarian Society )!.
- Richard Schwartz
In 1831 and 1832, at the invitation of New York's temperance leadership, Philadelphia activist Sylvester Graham delivered lectures on the relationship between diet and disease!. New Yorkers, Graham argued, had been fatally weakened in their ability to resist epidemics by the improper eating habits spawned by big-city life!. Graham opposed the use of stimulants--not only liquor, wine, and cider but tea, coffee, and tobacco too!. He advocated vegetarianism!. He denounced urban bakers who used 'refined' flour--stripped of husks and dark oleaginous germ and whitened with 'chemical agents'--because it baked more quickly than traditional bread, even though the result was an almost crustless loaf without granular texture or nutritional value!. He railed, too, against marketplace milk, much of which came from cows fed on leftover distillery mash (swill), with the anemic, liquor-inflected product made presentable by the addition of chalk, plaster of Paris, and molasses!.
from Burrows, Edwin G!. and Mike Wallace, _Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898_; New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999Www@FoodAQ@Com
Most Americans fondly recall eating graham crackers with milk as a childhood snack!. Graham crackers are made from graham flour, but what is graham flour!?
Flour
The main component of most cracker recipes is wheat flour, which is obtained by grinding wheat seeds into a powder!. Whole-wheat flour is composed of the three main parts of the wheat seed, the outer coat or bran, the germ, and the endosperm!. The bran and germ are larger particles which add flavor, fiber, and color to the flour!. The endosperm is responsible for the important baking characteristics!. It is primarily composed of starch and protein, which when combined with water creates a mass, called gluten, that can be stretched and rolled without breaking!. This property allows dough to be formed into various sizes and shapes!.
The distinctive flavor and texture of graham cracker flour comes from the size of the flour particles used!. For the correct taste, the flour must have the correct combination of small, medium, and large particles!. If this combination is not right, the crackers will either turn out crumbly or have lumps!.
Thus!.!.!.
Sylvester Graham (1795-1851)
Inventor of graham flour and the graham cracker
Sylvester Graham was an American Presbyterian minister (ordained in 1826) who preached on temperance and stressed whole-wheat flour and vegetarian diets!. He was known for his graham crackers!. His Graham Journal of Health and Longevity preached his principles of good health!. He compared people physiologically to orangutans, and concluded that vegetarian food was natural for both primates!.
Graham had many devoted followers, known as Grahamites, who slavishly followed his principles, which included temperance, sexual restraint, and baths, in addition to vegetarianism!. He was so famous that his lectures on proper living were attended by thousands, and he was able to hold his audiences spellbound!. He had many disciples who also worked diligently to further the vegetarian cause!. When the British Vegetarian Society was founded in 1847, he helped found a similar group in America (see American Vegetarian Society )!.
- Richard Schwartz
In 1831 and 1832, at the invitation of New York's temperance leadership, Philadelphia activist Sylvester Graham delivered lectures on the relationship between diet and disease!. New Yorkers, Graham argued, had been fatally weakened in their ability to resist epidemics by the improper eating habits spawned by big-city life!. Graham opposed the use of stimulants--not only liquor, wine, and cider but tea, coffee, and tobacco too!. He advocated vegetarianism!. He denounced urban bakers who used 'refined' flour--stripped of husks and dark oleaginous germ and whitened with 'chemical agents'--because it baked more quickly than traditional bread, even though the result was an almost crustless loaf without granular texture or nutritional value!. He railed, too, against marketplace milk, much of which came from cows fed on leftover distillery mash (swill), with the anemic, liquor-inflected product made presentable by the addition of chalk, plaster of Paris, and molasses!.
from Burrows, Edwin G!. and Mike Wallace, _Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898_; New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999Www@FoodAQ@Com
Graham was the name of the pastor that invented the crackers in the early 1900's!. He believed in high levels of nutrition for his church members, and created the Graham cracker which is low in sugar and high in fiber!. I believe they are a whole wheat product (but dont' have any here to check a label for you)!.Www@FoodAQ@Com