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Graham crackers and digestive biscuits are also treated more like cookies than crackers, although they were both invented for their supposed health benefits, and modern graham crackers are sweet. Similarly, animal crackers are crackers in name only. Animal crackers and Graham crackers may have docking holes. [citation needed]
The graham cracker was inspired by the preaching of Sylvester Graham, who was part of the 19th-century temperance movement.He believed that minimizing pleasure and stimulation of all kinds, including the prevention of masturbation, coupled with a vegetarian diet anchored by bread made from wheat coarsely ground at home, was how God intended people to live, and that following this natural law ...
He invented a machine that rolled and docked pastry and solved the sanitary problems of hand-rolling crackers. The history of the oyster cracker was related by Exton's nephew, also named Adam Exton, in the Trenton Evening Times newspaper on May 31, 1917: Even a cracker has a history.
American businesses were quick to pick up the slack and companies like Stauffer's Biscuit Company, which still exists today, made their first animal crackers in 1871 out of York, PA.
Catalogue for Tom Smith's Christmas Novelties from 1911. Tradition tells of how Tom Smith (1823–1869) of London invented crackers in 1847. [6] [7] He created the crackers as a development of his bon-bon sweets, which he sold in a twist of paper (the origins of the traditional sweet-wrapper).
Oscar J. Kambly originally invented goldfish crackers at Swiss biscuit manufacturer Kambly in 1958 [5] [6] to celebrate his wife, who was a Pisces, an astrological symbol whose shape is of a fish. [7] Pepperidge Farm founder Margaret Rudkin introduced Goldfish crackers to the United States in 1962 after having tried them while on vacation in ...
Soda crackers were described as early as in the book The Young House-keeper by American physician William Alcott in 1838. [2] In 1876, F. L. Sommer & Company of St. Joseph, Missouri, started using baking soda as a leavening agent (causing air bubbles) in its wafer-thin cracker. Initially called the Premium Soda Cracker and later "Saltines ...
Mar. 22—Here's a delicious Dayton connection: the Cheez-It was born here 100 years ago. The cracker — square in shape and orange in color — was invented by the Green & Green Company in 1921 ...