I made these a long time ago.
My page is messed up. I must re-write it. I say 7oz butter, nearly 1 stick, while 7oz is nearly 2 sticks. In the video above she says 1/2 cup which is 4 oz, or 1 stick. A pound of butter is 4 sticks. We both say 3 cups flour. I used 2 cups whole wheat flour and 1 cup all purpose flour.
They tasted great.
The thing is, I can buy a box of Honey Graham crackers and sit there and eat the whole thing with milk.
I also read a lot about Sylvester Graham. If he saw these recipes he go bananas. He devised his own way of milling whole wheat, the elements of the grain ground to differing fineness. He was also a dreadful personality. No-one could deal with him. He had an obsession with everyone flogging the dolphin. And that made him impossible to even have a discussion because he always got back to that.
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Life is strange. A comfort food now consumed in early childhood and beyond tracks back to someone who likely experienced childhood attachment issues, deprivation and trauma including the possibility of sexual abuse.
"Graham was born in 1794 in Connecticut, to a family with seventeen children; his father was 70 years old when Graham was born and his mother was mentally ill. His father died when Graham was two, and he spent his childhood moving from one relative's home to another. One of his relatives ran a tavern where Graham was put to work and his experience with drunkenness there led him to hate alcohol his whole life and forswear drinking, which made him an exception among his peers at the time. He was often sick, and missed a great deal of schooling."
Once again the clue bus delivers, along with the invitation to consider the fuel for obsession to be a potent as the spark (or breath) of inspiration.
If you really want to make Graham crackers, publicize his private cell phone number on Twitter and then sit back and wait for the fartworks.
Amartel, nice one!
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