Mother's Crushed Oats cereal packet

Imported American breakfast cereals were originally developed as a pure food for the Seventh Day Adventists, a religious sect, and were available in Britain by the 1890s. The Edwardians could also breakfast on shredded wheat and, from 1908, cornflakes (originally known as 'Elijah's Manna' but branded in Britain as 'Post Toasties').

Catalogue reference: COPY 1/978 f.20106 (29 May 1900)