On Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 10:24:47 PM UTC-10, Average Person wrote:
> When I was a kid in the 1960s, my mother made Chex mix. Made from 2 or 3
> Chex cereal flavors, pretzels, nuts, and maybe more....
>
> It was mixed and coated with some sort of spicy flavored coating.
>
> But what was that coating?????
> was it baked in the oven, or just sprayed on, or what????
>
> I only remember it was very good and tastey......
>
> Yea, today you can buy the mix at any store, but it's dull and lacks
> flavor. Its mostly just cereal and a few pretzels.
>
> Mom is gone, so I cant ask her....
>
> Has anyone on here made this stuff?

I have made this party food. That spicy taste is from the Worcester sauce. I don't think it's very spicy but it is piquant. The coating consists mostly of sugar and oil. It is mixed into the dry cereal and baked at a low temperature to dry out the sticky mixture.

There is a variation of Chex Mix where the cereal is coated with a mixture of chocolate and peanut and sugar. It's not baked and kids dig it.

These days, I like to make furikake Chex mix which is the hapa-haole version of Chex Mix i.e., half Japanese, half American. It is a most remarkable snack.

https://saucymommy.wordpress.com/201...kake-chex-mix/