that we celebrate.
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When is National Graham Cracker Day?
July 5 is always National Graham Cracker Day.
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What is this Holiday for?
This holiday is for honoring and enjoying the good taste of graham crackers. Let today be the day you sit down with your favorite cookbooks and find all the graham cracker recipes that you can find. Pick a few recipes and make them for your family. You will most likely find many dessert recipes because graham crackers are used in many sweet treat dishes. Tell your family all about National Graham Cracker Day and share in this tasty holiday. _______________________________________________
Origin of this Holiday?
Our research did not find the creator, or the origin of this day.
This holiday is referred to as a "National" day. However, we did not find any congressional records or presidential proclamations for this day. Even though we didn't, this is still a holiday that is publicized for celebration. So have fun with it and celebrate it!
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What is a Graham Cracker?
The graham cracker was developed in 1822 in Bound Brook, New Jersey, by Presbyterian minister Rev. Sylvester Graham. Though called a cracker, it is sweet rather than salty and so bears some resemblance to what Americans call a cookie and the British call a biscuit. The true graham cracker is made with graham flour, which is unsifted and coarsely ground wheat flour.
It was originally conceived of as a health food as part of the Graham Diet, a regimen to suppress what he considered unhealthy carnal urges, the source of many maladies according to Graham.
Modern Use
Many modern "graham crackers" are made of the refined, bleached white flour to which the Rev. Graham was implacably opposed. Some modern commercial graham crackers are no longer considered health food, but have remained popular as a snack food and breakfast cereal with greater amounts of sugar, honey and other sweeteners than in the original recipe, and far less graham flour, often with no whole-wheat flour whatsoever. Cinnamon or chocolate may be added to enhance the flavor of the crackers. Technically, crackers are not really graham crackers unless they are made with graham flour, which is a hard whole-wheat flour in which the constituent bran, germ, and endosperm have been ground separately, the first two coarsely and the third finely.
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Graham Cracker Pie Crust
1.5 cup graham cracker crumbs
1/3 cup melted butter / margarine
3 Tablespoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon cloves
Mix and press in bottom of pie pan.
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Also See
National Smores Day (August 10)
How to make Smores Cookies
