Saltine Crackers Expiration Date
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| Alternative names | Soda cracker |
|---|---|
| Type | Cracker |
| Place of origin | United States |
| Main ingredients | Flour, yeast, and baking soda |
A saltine or soda cracker is a thin, usually square cracker made from white flour, yeast, and baking soda, with most varieties lightly sprinkled with coarse salt. It has perforations over its surface, as well as a distinctively dry and crisp texture.
Some familiar brand names of saltine crackers in North America are Christie's Premium Plus (Canada), Nabisco's Premium (U.S.), Sunshine Biscuits' Krispy (U.S.), Keebler's Zesta (U.S.) (both owned by Kellogg's), and Noel's Saltín (Colombia). Unsalted tops as well as whole grain saltines can also be found.
Uses[edit]
Saltines are commonly eaten as a light snack, often with cheese, butter, peanut butter or other spreads. They may also be dipped or crumbled in soups, chilis, stews, and eaten with, or crumbled into salads. Typically they are sold in boxes containing two to four stacks of crackers, each wrapped in a sleeve of waxed paper or plastic. In restaurants, they are found in small wrapped plastic packets of two crackers, which generally accompany soup or salad. Cracker meal, a type of coarse to semi-fine flour made of crushed saltine crackers, may be used as toppings for various dishes; breading for fried or baked poultry, fish or red meats; or as a thickener for meatloaf soups, stews, sauces, and chilis.
As a home remedy, saltines are consumed by many people in order to ease nausea and to settle an upset stomach. Saltine crackers have also been frequently included in military field rations (Meal, Ready-to-Eat, or MRE) in the United States. For some children in parts of the eastern United States, Saltines are traditionally eaten on Christmas Eve.
History[edit]
Soda crackers were described in 'The Young Housekeeper' by Alcott in 1838.[1]
In 1876, F. L. Sommer & Company of St. Joseph, Missouri started using baking soda to leaven its wafer thin cracker. Initially called the Premium Soda Cracker and later 'Saltines' because of the baking salt component, the invention quickly became popular and Sommer's business quadrupled within four years. That company merged with other companies to form American Biscuit Company in 1890 and then after further mergers became part of Nabisco in 1898.[2][3][4]
In the early 20th century, various companies in the United States began selling soda crackers in Puerto Rico and referred to them as 'Export Soda'. Rovira Biscuit Corp. of Puerto Rico also started selling their soda crackers with the same name. The term 'Export Soda' became a generic term in Puerto Rico for these crackers. In 1975 Keebler Co. was refused a trademark for the term because it was 'merely descriptive'.[5]
In the United States, Nabisco lost trademark protection after the term 'saltine' began to be used generically to refer to similar crackers (see generic trademark for how this occurs). The name 'saltine' had been placed in the Merriam Webster Dictionary in 1907 with a definition of 'a thin crisp cracker usually sprinkled with salt”.[6] In Australia, Arnott's Biscuits Holdings still holds a trademark on the name 'Saltine'.[7][8]
They were made in the United Kingdom by Huntley and Palmers, and also in Australia and New Zealand under the brand name Arnott's Salada.
Baking process[edit]
Saltines have been compared to hardtack, a simple unleavened cracker or biscuit made from flour, water, and sometimes salt. However, unlike hardtack, saltines include yeast as one of their ingredients. Soda crackers are a leavened bread that is allowed to rise for twenty to thirty hours. After the rise, alkaline soda is added to neutralize the excessive acidity produced by the action of the yeast. The dough is allowed to rest for three to four more hours, to relax the gluten, before being rolled in layers and then baked.
Flat saltine crackers have perforations on their surfaces. During baking, the outer layer of dough hardens first, restricting out-gassing of evolved gasses. The perforations connect the top surface to the bottom surface to prevent the cracker from pillowing as a result of these evolved gasses.
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References[edit]
- ^https://books.google.ca/books?id=b-nwYmKlZgcC&pg=PP122&dq=%22soda+crackers%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjyw4WV0ejWAhULSiYKHSnGDxgQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=%22soda%20crackers%22&f=false.Missing or empty
title=(help) - ^'Soggy Cracker House Needs Some Help'. St. Joseph News-Press. 15 April 2008. Retrieved October 12, 2013.
- ^'Biographical Sketch of F. L. Sommer, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO'. USGenWeb Archives. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
- ^'Michigan State University Libraries - Special Collections - Little Cookbooks: The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker Culinary Ephemera Collection'. Lib.msu.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-26.
- ^'KEEBLER CO. v. ROVIRA BISCUIT CORP'.
- ^'Nabisco Premium Saltines The Snack That Takes You Back'(PDF). SaigeFalyn. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
- ^'Trade Mark Details - Full - Trade Mark : 214303'. ipaustralia.gov.au. Retrieved 2013-10-29.
- ^'Trade Mark Details - Full - Trade Mark : 98208'. ipaustralia.gov.au. Retrieved 2013-10-29.
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So last year I finished off one box. This year I hadnt really bothered the other two boxes (the kind that have four long narrow packs of crackersinside the box)...
Then recently I went to eat some from a breaker pack in one of those remaining two boxes....
I suppose they were just slightly 'expired' (by the MFG Standards anyways) at the time of purchase....
And eating them wasnt even possible (despite having toppings worth roughing it for all ready to go), as they tasted like... paint.
Not quite as bad as oil based paint, at least, nor quite like epoxy paint (which I surmise has no taste as its such a perfectly hard material), butdefinitely like 3 day dried latex acrylic paint.
So naturally I decided to dump each breaker pack into the fire, as the cats surely wouldnt walk within five feet of them...
And they were unfit for the compost setup as they have salt...
And I'll tell ya, they would probably make for halfway decent firestarter kindling, as you'd think I had just dumped shards of pine particle board onthe fire when I poured the 7 breaker packs into it rather quick like...
So naturally I got to wondering, maybe that's exactly how dried latex paint would burn...
Meaning of course I went and grabbed a big 'slap' of dried latex paint and threw it in there (the sort of patch you peel out of a paint bucket afterits fully dried for a few days, and then left to dry in the sun for a few more)...
I snip you not, I seriously had this most perfect specimen of latex paint on hand for this most ultimately serious example of a controlled scienceexperiment ever contemplated...
So I threw it in there...
Could still see many crackers not yet burnt because they didnt get far enough in there...
And the patch of latex paint in the fire next to the crackers (no pun intended), had the most astounding results...
It burned both 'faster' and 'slower' than the cracker did!
Soda Crackers Expiration Date
It managed to do this simultaneously (which is without a doubt a truly indisputable marvel of all known and fictional science theory)...Expiration Date Tim Powers
But after many minutes of advanced enhanced exotic calculations, and my nose, without any doubt whatsoever roughly the same amount of energy expelledfrom the patch of dried latex paint as would have roughly the same dried mass of saltine crackers (that smelled like three day old dried latex paint)would have...
AND, the smell of the fire didnt change at all from one moment before the latex paint was added (while the crackers were still going at it), andafter!!!