Process For Making Microwaveable, Sugar-Free, Grain-Textured Milk And Cereal Bars And Finger-Foods Whereby Every Serving Can Be Eaten Completely Interchangeably With And Priced Competitively With A Bowl of Milk And Cereal
The present invention relates to a process for making milk and cereal bars and finger-foods said process comprising the steps of: a) modifying raw, whole cereal grains so they become fully-cooked within 30 minutes b) partially cooking every one to four ounces of modified cereal grains with every one half-cup of fluid-milk at 210° F. and discharging them from the cooker before the starch-granules in the grain-centers are gelatinized c) depositing said partially-cooked grains into continuous sheets which are then cut into units d) heating the units of c) with 450° F. blown-air in a convection-oven, and discharging said units from the oven either before or after the starch-granules in the grain-centers have become gelatinized and e) freezing said units.
