[Sca-cooks] Re: cold cereal and milk

[Jeff Gedney]

> As for the idea of milk toast, interesting, but closer 
> to sops rather than boiled meal.

Bear... 

I THOUGHT we were discussing Cold Cereal...
Did I miss something?
If we have moved on, you can ignore the rest of this letter.

If not... 

In that case the progression of MilkSops to cold cerial 
with milk is more logical and supported than the progression 
of gruel/oatmeal to cold cereal...

Items...  

1) Milk sops and Milktoast are traditional invalids food, 
and so it makes sense that Graham and Kellogg (who after 
all ran Sanatoria and health "spas") would have familiarity 
with that food as being more "heathy". 
Yes Gruel is also a traditional invalid's food...  
But you still have to show a link to adding milk to 
gruel/oatmeal, which is back to the same problem. Aside 
from texture, milk sops are not much different, as I said, 
from Grapenuts. 

2) One of the earliest known prepackaged Cold Cereals for 
serving in milk was "granula", made from unleavened baked 
sheets made of Graham flour broken into small pieces... 
Granules of Graham cracker.. Hence the name.

Do a google search on Dr. James C. Jackson or "granula".  

The first packaged cold cereals for eating with milk were 
functionally not much different from Graham flour milk toast.
So I can't see why you would discount that linkage.

2) They are already processed grain products that are 
prepared cold and dry and served with milk, like Modern 
Cold Cereals

3) Kellog and CW Post two of the original mass producers of 
cold cereal for serving with milk ran or stayed at the San, 
where the diet was artificailly restricted for "health 
purposes". 
They followed Graham's vegetarian dietary guidelines and 
Graham frequently advocated milksops with whole grain or 
high bran Graham flour cracker as a breakfast

I do not think that that is a linkage that is easily 
tossed aside.

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It's killing me!!!

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