at spouts 34 and 36 the cereal components from bins 18 and 20 being blended as they merge in spout 36 through communicating ducts 38 and 40 details of spout metering and delivering systems will be well understood by those skilled in the art and are only schematically illustrated herein and form no part of the invention a fat spray delivery system in holding tank 42 is delivered through a positive displacement pump 44 to pressure tank 46 oil at a constant temperature is forced out of tank 46 through line 48 to spray head 50 which provides a fan type spray onto the dry blended ingedients in the conveyor chamber to be described hereinafter a syrup metering system comprises syrup mix tank 52 delivered by pump 54 to hot syrup holding tank 56 which feeds hot syrup under positive displacement pump 58 through line 60 to syrup applicator head 62 in second conveyor 12 material aggregated in second conveyor 12 and eventually agglomerated therein is discharged from the upper end thereof through spout 64 onto a dryer apron 66 shown in phantom the dryer receives agglomerate and completes dehydration thereof to a stable moisture content that is desirably below 5 and at that moisture level whereat the agglomerate is crisp as seen in fig1 both cut and folded screws are substantially of the same pitch and high l r ratio flights being cut and folded at 5 segments per 360 u00b0 arc rotation.