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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 ...
Animal biscuit crackers were made and distributed under the National Biscuit Company banner. In 1902, animal crackers officially became known as "Barnum's Animals" and evoked the familiar circus theme of the Barnum and Bailey Circus. Later in 1902, the now-familiar box was designed for the Christmas season with the innovative idea of attaching ...
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).
Soda crackers were described in The Young House-keeper by William Alcott in 1838. [1] 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" because of the baking salt component, the ...
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 ...
Keebler did adopt Streitmann's Zesta saltine brand as Keebler's national brand of saltine crackers. [14] Keebler-Weyl Bakery became the official baker of Girl Scout Cookies in 1936, the first commercial company to bake the cookies (the scouts and their mothers had done it previously). By 1978, four companies were producing the cookies. [15]