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Nabisco makes its Triscuits in much the same way it makes its shredded wheat. (Both were invented in the 1890’s by Henry Perky, a middle-aged lawyer in Denver.) Wheat is slightly softened with water and steam so that it can go through a shredder and come out looking like ’‘fine spaghetti,’’ according to a company spokeswoman, Caroline Fee.
For shredded wheat, the strands are piled up, all strands running in the same direction, and then put through a cutter that forms the biscuits. To make Triscuits, the wheat is piled first in one direction and then in another. ’‘They’re not woven,’’ Ms. Fee said firmly.
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/06/garden/these-food-questions-seem-too-silly-to-ask.html?pagewanted=all
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