How many ways can you think of to eat shredded wheat biscuits? Apparently there were "two dozen ways of preparing them" in 1896, according to an ad in the Daily Item . Just four years later, public demonstrations using shredded wheat mentioned a r ecipe book with 262 recipes . Newspapers ran snarky ads decrying the manufactured necessity for shredded wheat and other breakfast cereals. Despite the push back, shredded wheat was here to stay - at least as a breakfast cereal. But how did it arrive? Shredded Wheat Biscuit with Apricots and Cream, from More Light . Shredded wheat was the invention of Henry Perky . The story goes that he met another person over shared digestion woes around 1890, and learned this person's trick of eating boiled wheat with cream. After connecting with machinist William H. Ford, they developed a machine to process wheat into "little whole wheat mattresses" to facilitate the ease of eating the wheat. After exhibiting his biscuits at the ...
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