Honey Maid Honey Grahams

It's been a long time since I've had a need for any graham crackers.


That was back when I tended to gravitate to the name brands just because I thought they'd be "better" than the generic or store brand.

Didn't know they're made in Mexico.

Now that I read labels, I chose the name-brand grahams because it, unlike the store brand, does not contain high-fructose corn syrup. Just sugar and honey, like it should be in my opinion.


Making crumbs is simple. Toss the crackers, broken, from each of the three individually wrapped packages in the box into a blender.


And grind 'em up in batches. That'll yield the perfect quantity for cheesecake or cheesecake bars.


Nabisco Honey Maid graham crackers, available in the cracker aisle of Stater Bros. for $3.49/14.4 oz box.

And looking up "graham" in the Larousse Gastronomique I found out that graham crackers are named after Sylvester Graham:

American nutritionist (born West Suffield, Connecticut, 1794; died Northampton, Massachusetts, 1851). He became the leader of a crusade against the bad eating habits of his compatriots, denouncing excessively spicy condiments and overindulgence in meat. For him, the cure-all was bran and it was essential to make bread exclusively from wholemeal flour. Bread and biscuits (cookies) sold under his trademark have to be made with flour containing all the original bran. Graham bread, marketed in the United States and in Europe since the mid-19th century, was the first internationally consumed bread. It is a wholemeal (wholewheat) bread with a very dense texture and it keeps extremely well. Graham crackers, still one of the most popular American crackers, are made with wholemeal flour and named after Sylvester Graham.

Fascinating!

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