"IMPERIAL GRANUM // THE UNSWEETENED // WHEAT // FOOD"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-A1-6 Row G
Research Facts
Imperial Granum was manufactured in New Haven Connecticut and registered June 5, 1877. It was still going strong in 1915 when L. E. La Fétra, M.D. a visiting physician to the children’s ward at Bellevue Hospital in New York, wrote a paper on it’s value in treating premature infants.
Imperial Granum was manufactured in New Haven Connecticut and registered June 5, 1877. It was still going strong in 1915 when L. E. La Fétra, M.D. a visiting physician to the children’s ward at Bellevue Hospital in New York, wrote a paper on it’s value in treating premature infants.
Imperial Granum it is basically a wheat and milk gruel and the insert recommends it for nursing mothers, babies and invalids. For babies, it is first dissolved in their formula (if they are not nursing) and after the child is six months old, it is fed as a cereal. Nursing moms are to take it three times a day, 3 tablespoons cooked in a cup of water and a cup of milk. She can add cocoa or some other flavouring, if she likes. The box says: “This original and world-renowned dietetic preparation is a substance of unrivaled purity and nutritive worth derived by a new process from very superior growth of wheat—nothing more.” The box also says that it is the invention of an eminent French chemist although gruel of various grains has been known and used for centuries. The Greeks had it, the Maya and the Aztecs, and they certainly used it in Medieval Europe.
It was made by John Carle & Sons, Inc. from New York City. This company was established in 1817. Imperial Granum was manufactured in New Haven Connecticut and registered June 5, 1877. It was still going strong in 1915 when L. E. La Fétra, M.D. a visiting physician to the children’s ward at Bellevue Hospital in New York, wrote a paper on its value in treating premature infants.
Both Robert Benchley and Mark Twain mentioned in their writing as if it were common in households.