Process for producing yogurt and cereal bars, rice pudding bars, and milk and cereal bars that provide handheld milk and cereal breakfasts

摘要

The present invention relates to a two-step cooking process for producing yogurt and cereal bars, rice pudding bars, and milk and cereal bars having surfaces and interiors comprised of soft, moist, fully-cooked milk-infused grain-chunks. Said bars provide handheld milk and cereal breakfasts. In the first cooking step, grain-chunks are only partially-cooked in a continuous-cooker at about 212° F. while being infused with 1.5 to 4 times as much fluid-milk before said partially-cooked, milk-infused grain-chunks are deposited from said cooker and allowed to flow onto a conveyor belt as a thick-sheet. Food particles are sprinkled onto the surface of said sheet before it is cut into bar-shaped units. In the second cooking step, the shaped-units are baked in a continuous-oven at temperatures above 275° F. until their partially-cooked grain-chunks become fully-cooked. The units are then cooled to prevent overcooking the fully-cooked grain-chunks.