Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-03-11
Patent Unfermented Bread, or Frat
ed Biscuits.
To Die Editor Of he ". Y. Tribune.

To Gie Editor Of The ". y. Tribune:
SlR: IL has long been known to the scien-
tile world thai in the work OF preparing
bread, the very staff of life, much Of the
nutritious part of the ma>s-whether in the
form of loaf or otherwise-is wasted by our
efforts to make it light and tender This
sacrifice of nutriment, amounting frequently
10 onc-tenth of the whole, o., in the case of
the ordinary takrr (whose great Object seems
to b. to obtain large LOAF from very little
flour) much more than a tenth, has, by some.
been regarded as necessary kind Of tax
TO be paid for the good of the whole COM
mpniiy-forgetting, however. 10y the bv. that
the claims thus made ia behalf OF civilization
are an assumption, il not a sheer begging OF
the question. For the most part, however, as
IL is in all honesty To be confessed, there has
been very little thought bestowed on the sub
jet, and we have been contrnt To blunder on
just as had been done since time immemorial
by Others. Not halt a. much earnest Thought
has been given to bread making to pie
making. sauce-making. or preserve-making;
nor one-fourth much as To certain items Of
no value, OF almost none. pertaining To the
world of dress aud display
For many years past, however. IL has been
customary with many 10 get rid of the slow
process of raising bread by fermentation. and
to substitute. therefor. the process of esirr-
dnced in numerous ways; but they have all
been alike In two respects.
lst. They have furnished without fer
mentation and consequent waste of free car
homie acid gas in Sufficient measure to inilAte
the dough aud make the bread or cake tender
2. They have left, in the bread. residunm
such as acetate potash, taririte Of soda.
sunriate of soda. &c. The lasi OF these. which
l. essentially common salt, Is least injurious
l. Ezs Ill.
dation.
Thus there have been objections. as we see,
in both methods: to fermentation that i,
wastes the ifs oi the hre.ld, 10 call In, /. e.
the fariRlcioas or starch portion, aud this last
converted Into saccharine matter beside
being rotting process, since fermentation Is
the frst step towards decay. TO eifervescence.
thai II leaves foreign substance. a msdlclne,
behind it. A. consequence. and ior other
reasons, a few have. for some time past. used
bread Without raising IL at all-that Is Of
simple meal and water. Nothing II wasted
la this ease, and DO snrtlieiar h swallowed in
tbs mixtures; hat the dentist has bad oeea-
sion 10 complain that she teeth do not decay
80 ta~i a. bciors, and the housewife that sGe
cannot Show her skill 80 much In the pro-
daetion Of light, porsIus. but tasteless l0aves-
Meanwhile, Or. Dangish. Brilish pLysl-
clan, has discovered sad patented = method
OF isiaiing lhe i.af without rendering IL
haiti pasFid on the cue hand, and without
m dleafiag II on the Other. HE n sIhod eoa-
sl-is, essentially. ia forciag e4rbsaie aid gas
iaso the uissss. aad thus sariAag IL aud rca-
i riag IL very igat. without aay chemical
changes. This, aceosd'ng TO thS Iagsarsaa
A<s<asw. Is dssae by Asssfs. Carr 4 e.. VI
Carii-Ie the eJly knosa nsalaiaetarsrs Of the
astieir, - iuf.o4s-
..'fhs dry iagsedisnss. - pass whsatsa