Animal Cracker Day

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9615826.post-51761870736047172352008-04-18T11:03:00.001-07:002008-04-18T11:34:04.327-07:00Animal Cracker Day<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/paige-pics/2267090077/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2117/2267090077_d0e72dc73d_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" /></a><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:0;" > <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/paige-pics/2267090077/">Arky Arky</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/paige-pics/">~ Paige ~ will hopefully be back on Friday</a> </span></div>Did everybody eat animal crackers as a kid or what? I know I sure did and I thought the circus them of the box was great too. I played with the box as much as I played with the cookies before I ate them. These little cookies are just slightly sweet but fun to eat. I remember floating them in milk and pretending they were swimming across a river. haha! Then I would eat them.<br /><br />I was reading up on Animal Crackers and found out that they are sometimes called "Circus Crackers", other times simply "Animals."<br /><br />1902 the now-familiar box was designed for the Christmas season with the innovative idea of attaching a string to hang from the Christmas tree. This idea took off and is now popular today but we like to use the sting as a handle to tote the crackers around with. It was a neat gimick idea to hang it from a christmas tree though.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fun Animal Cracker Facts</span><br /><ol><li>More than 40 million packages of Barnum's Animal Crackers are sold each month.<br /></li><li>In total, there have been 54 different animals represented by animal crackers since 1902.</li><li>Animal Crackers are exported to 17 countries worldwide.</li><li>There will probably always be lions and tigers, bears and elephants.</li><li>Today each package contains 22 crackers with a variety of animals.</li><li>The Koala Bear joined the 18 other animals in September 2002.</li><li>There have been three different and limited edition boxes produced in the last decade Endangered Animals box in 1995, the Chocolate Zoo in 1997 and the Marine Collection in 1998.</li><li>Purity of the ingredients: Flour, sugar, shortening, corn flour, whey solids, salt, leaving and oil-of-lemon combine to make a not-too-sweet-cracker/cookie.</li><li>In 1948 the company changed the product name to Barnum's Animal Crackers a designation still used today.</li><li> The crackers are baked in a 300 foot long traveling band oven. They are in the oven for about four minutes and are baked at the rate of 12,000 per minute.</li></ol><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000MFJM5M?ie=UTF8&tag=gonetapott-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=B000MFJM5M">Bear Cookie Jar with Animal Crackers</a><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0006DPT48?tag=gonetapott-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=B0006DPT48&adid=0ZH3XMWSJDMY6K63THQY&">Wilton Animal Crackers Pan</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">Animal Cracker Recipe</span><br /><ul style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"><li>1/2 cup rolled oats</li><li>3/4 cup all-purpose flour</li><li>1/4 teaspoon baking soda</li><li>1/4 teaspoon salt</li><li>1/4 cup butter</li><li>2 teaspoons honey</li><li>1/4 cup buttermilk</li></ul> <div style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);" id="floatbox"> <div id="floatboxpadding"> <div id="recipeactionbox"> <div class="raised"> <div class="boxcontent"> </div></div></div></div></div><div class="recipe centercontent" style="border-top: 0pt none; margin: 0pt 0pt 15px 8px; color: rgb(51, 0, 153);"><ol><li><span> In a medium bowl, stir together the blended oats, flour, baking soda and salt. Cut in the butter using a pastry blender or your fingers until the butter lumps are smaller than peas. Stir in the buttermilk and honey to form a stiff dough. On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough out to 1/8 inch in thickness. Cut into desired shapes with cookie cutters. Place cookies 1 inch apart onto cookie sheets. </span></li><li><span> Bake for 5 to 7 minutes in the preheated oven, until edges are lightly browned. Remove from cookie sheets to cool on wire racks. </span></li></ol><span>Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grind oats until fine using a blender or food processor. </span></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153); font-weight: bold;">Todays Joke</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">A hack golfer spends a day at a plush country club, playing golf and enjoying the luxury of a complimentary caddy. Being a hack golfer, he plays poorly all day. Round about the 18th hole, he spots a lake off to the left of the fairway. He looks at the caddy and says, "I've played so poorly all day, I think I'm going to go drown myself in that lake."</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">The caddy looks back at him and says, "I don't think you could keep your head down that long."<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Quote of the day</span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.</span><br /> - <a href="http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/163.html">Paul Valery</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">A Life Suggestion</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Take control of your life by using your thoughts to visualize your future as you want it to happen.</span>Gone-ta-potthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10959503301658895541noreply@blogger.com