Ditto bread (and coffee)

[A. Maberry]

Of course there's always "Postum", the grain-based coffee-like beverage.
According to the website
(http://www.kraftfoods.com/postcereals/heritage.html), invented by C.W.
Post in 1895 in Battle Creek, Mich.

allen



On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Beverly Flanigan wrote:

> I recall my dad saying early Scandinavian immigrants to America often used
> grain-based coffee, esp. in winter when access to real coffee was more
> difficult.  My Swedish immigrant grandfather had to drive a team of horses
> 40 or 50 miles to the nearest railroad station, where supplies came in.
>
> Beverly (Olson) Flanigan
>
> At 05:00 PM 8/28/2002 +0200, you wrote:
> >Barry writes:
> > > Also mentioned are "corn coffee, ditto bread, cowpeas..."  Corn coffee?
> >
> >The use of roasted grains as substitutes for coffee was earlier common in
> >poorer homes in Sweden, and during the two World Wars, when coffee could
> >not be imported, was used quite generally.
> >The Dictionary of the Swedish Academy has:
> >"Såsom kaffesurrogater begagnas rostadt korn... (1896)".
> >(As substitutes for coffee are used roasted barley...)
> >I have also found a reference from 1810 to the use of roasted "turkiskt
> >korn" as a coffee substitute, but can find no clue to what kind of cereal
> >is meant (it could be a wild form of wheat or barley - they are common in
> >the Orient). "Korn" _could_ earlier be used for "grains" in general, but
> >nowadays is used only for barley. Possible is importation into American
> >English through Swedish immigrants.
> >Jan Ivarsson, Sweden
> >jan.ivarsson at transedit.st
>