Cookies for Breakfast month continues.

And what screams breakfast more than cornflakes? I’ll wait while you rack your brain.

The idea of cereal was developed in 1863 by a man named Dr. James Caleb Jackson. Kind of. He made up a boring, very boring, meal type substance made of water and graham flour. The resulting make was so hard it had to be softened in milk to be edible. This, I believe, is technically graham flakes. Or granula, as it was called.

He believed that the root of all human ills was the digestive track. He’s not right and he’s not wrong.

Another physician who had visited Jackson’s sanitorium by the name of John Harvey Kellogg of Kellogg’s fame. You know, the cereal company.

Oddly Kellogg believed that the source of all human ills was a TWO pronged problem. The first was digestion, hence the cereal foods, but the other was masturbation. By having bland breakfast foods, unlike the meat and potatoes that got many a farmer through their long day, this might cool the self pleasure fever and also help people poop.

Kellogg and his brother Will developed cornflakes after he copied Dr. Jackson’s cereal creation and got caught. After a lawsuit from Jackson Kellogg renamed it granola. You may be more familiar with that name.

There was a man who earned his way at the sanitorium by working in the kitchen. His is also a familiar name, C.W. Post. He went on to invent an even more boring cereal that he called grape-nuts.

Confession time: I enjoy grape-nuts. After it has soaked in milk for a time.

The early days of history were wild. Read all about it in the Guardian article “The weird but true history of cereal- from anti-sex campaigns to mind control”.

In the before times of the dawn of cereal, there was no sugar in the cereal. It was very bland. Nothing like the brightly colored, highly sugared cereals of today. With their mascots and free prizes in the box. Do they even still do that?

This week’s make is a cornflake cookie. Simple ingredients beget a simple cookie.

The result was a surprisingly chewy, dense, slightly sweet cookie that crisped up wonderfully in the oven. With the occasional sharp crunch of the cornflake.

I would not through this cookie out of the cookie jar.

It took all that I had in me not to zhuhz it up. Look up the spelling yourself, there isn’t a lot of consensus on it. I itched to add another flavoring to the cookie. Anything would have done; all-spice, cinnamon, even cardamon.

But I resister and the cookie stands at it is. Slightly boring, good mouthfeel, kind of addicting cookie. I can have more than one; they’re healthy!