![]() After experimenting with some ingredients, he found a good formula: a mix of wheat farina and malted barley. He decided to make a new breakfast food with more flavor that was easier to prepare. Campbell grew up in a milling family and often ate bland hot wheat cereal. Since 1927, Malt-O-Meal cereal products have been made in Northfield and sold internationally. Campbell in Owatonna in 1919 and grew to be one of the top cereal manufacturers in the country. (I imagine it’d work with Cream of Wheat or Cream of Rice too, if that’s what you’re working with.) And if this advice is of help to you, I’m delighted.The Malt-O-Meal Company was founded by John S. So if you’re having a problem with your dry hot cereal, give this approach a shot. The next morning I took a serving’s worth of the stuff (1/3 cup) and made a pot of it for breakfast… and there was not a single lump. Left the oven on for about fifteen minutes, and then turned it off and left everything as it was overnight. Then I turned the oven on very low (about 100 degrees F / 50 degrees C) and put the pizza pan in there. I took a few servings’ worth of the Malt-O-Meal and spread it out evenly in a nonstick pizza pan. What if they picked up some moisture along the way? ![]() These things took the guts of a month getting here, and they weren’t that tightly wrapped. And as I turned the Malt-O-Meal jar over in my hands, I noted that the grains were sticking to each other a bit. When I open a box of any dry hot cereal, normally I put it in a glass jar so that it’ll be easier to scoop out with a measuring cup. ![]() Was this whole three-box batch going to be defective? Most annoying.įinally I put on my Science Hat and started considering what might be going wrong with this stuff, and what could be done about it. ![]() Made another potful the next morning, and lo, it happened again. I ate it anyway (after taking a potato masher to it) because I don’t waste Malt-O-Meal. But the first potful of this batch came out studded with lumps the size of marbles. I have years of experience at making this stuff, and it never lumps. I received the package with joy, when it arrived after about three weeks (because no way was I going to pay the insane postage for faster shipping), and I had some for breakfast the next morning. I’d been without the stuff for the summer months, and as the weather started to cool down I ordered in some more. So I normally wind up ordering it a few boxes at a time from the US on Ebay (while gritting my teeth at the postage costs, but that’s the price of admission). I love it dearly, but as far as I can tell, it is nowhere available in Europe. For those of you not familiar with it, this is a wheat-based hot cereal with a malty flavor. For me, the cereal in question is Malt-O-Meal. They’re worse if you like a cereal that’s at all specialized. If you know where to look - some specialty stores in big cities, some high-end groceries with imported foods sections - you may be able to score something (at a significant markup… enough to make your eyes bleed). The concept of hot cereals based on other grains (wheat, rice…) has not yet made any serious inroads here. If there’s one thing about Ireland that you learn pretty quickly, it’s that if you like a hot breakfast cereal on a chilly morning, what’s available for you in the major grocery stores is going to be based on oats. Though I was born and raised in the US, I live in Ireland.
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