Recipe: Homemade Graham Nuts (like Grape Nuts Cereal)

Homemade Graham Nuts (like Grape Nuts Cereal)
rec.food.recipes/Kathleen (1999)

This recipe comes from Marcia Adams' Cooking From Quilt Country. She writes that it "has a great cruchy textrue and is a bit sweeter than the commerical Grape-Nuts cereal."

3 1/2 cups graham (whole wheat) flour
1 cup brown sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground cinnamon
2 cups buttermilk
2 tsp vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a large bowl, combine flour, brown sugar, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon. Add the buttermilk and vanilla and mix well. Pour out into an oiled 12 X 16 inch flat baking pan and spread evenly with a spatula. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until the batter is firm, medium-brown in color, and shrinks slightly from the sides of the pan. With a metal spatula, completely loosen the hot pattie from the pan. Allow to cool on a rack for several hours or overnight. Preheat oven to 275 degrees F. Break pattie into chunks and put through a meat grinder, using a coarse blade, or pulse in a food processor until coarse crumbs are formed. Divide crumbs between two 12x 16 inch pans. Bake for 30 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes. Let cool, then store in an airtight container. Serve as a cold cereal, with milk and a bit of brown sugar, if desired.