Wow! I apparently type OR read. Here is an amended version.

Jean B. wrote:
> I sometimes run across recipes that call for common crackers and have had
> NO idea how large they were, which made it hard to estimate the
> quantity of crumbs needed. I am flipping through a book and just came
> across this, written by Ralph E. Flanders, the then-Senator from
> Vermont: "The cracker called for in this recipe is the old-fashioned
> 'common cracker' which in the old days filled the cracker barrel at the
> country store. It goes under various aliases such as St. Johnsbury
> cracker, Keene cracker, Montpelier cracker, Hanover cracker, etc. It is
> the grandfather of the regular oyster cracker, being however about three
> inches in diameter."
>
> Source: The All American Cook Book: Favorite Recipes of Famous
> Persons. Sponsored by American Legion Auxiliary Schuetz-Hermann Unit
> 283, Lebanon, Illinois. Marceline, Missouri: Walsworth Bros., 1954.
> Page 46.


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Jean B.