Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1867-10-18
wHsl'r u ri. AD.

Om whole process oe CONVERTING
wheat into bread. has. 1T almost every
step, violated the laws Of nature. and
disrcgarded her sng ecs;inns, and the
reform must be Il fundamental one.
Wheat Is, beyond Al dis, u,e, the mos,
paitcct article A human food. in being
the only vegetable production vet dis
covered That contains all the Clements
necessary Car the nourislment of 4 g
muscle. haacs, fatty tissue and brains
IN aust the right proportions. Beans.
peas, Indian corn and other grains at
io'l perfect nouri-hment for all tie
organs but tho brain, and are idVnsi-
cal in composition with it, the whole
hr mug one system ar set of crgans.
Now the pabalaa of the brain is
phosphorus. whose life giving fire
thrills along the ncryes. aud whose
light illuincs the chambers oflhe mind
for could We rightly understand the
correspondence between the material
AND the spiritual. We might see thai,
light IA the Intellectual sense was
something more than n mere figure of
speech. The wear Of the brain bv
study or n mental effort throws of
the phosphorus, which ia found with
other waste matter in the urine or
oi'lcr secretions. To keep the brain
healthy and ia working order the
waste must be restored h, the use of
food containing phosphorus, and that
food IS wheat. 1t would seem as it
wheat was made for brain food, and
man. the only animal that works will,
his brain. is the only consumer Of il.
but by a strange caprice. the prompt
ings 81 l,ls intultions arc overrnled bv
his tastes, aud, IN this particular in
stance, 10 his great detrimems-nearlv
cvervparticle of the brain nourishinr
phosphorus is found IN the hun or bran
OF the wheat, which. when separated
from the flour, for the sake Of merely
gratifying the eve with the sight of
white bread, carries off all the superb
ority which wheat possesses over a
dozen other kinds of cheaper vegets-
.,les. In addition 70 this, the m chan-
zeal action of the bran on the internal
organs keeps them in y healthy state.
and supersedes the necessity of pills
aud other cathartics which many PEG
pie are obliged to use habitually. This
matter of making -four of the whole
wheat is well understood and approx
81 by every school of physicians, and
through their recommendation to pa
ticnts, and the teachings of health
journals. its use is becoming some
what common, and wheat flour, as il
Is called, is q staple article in the mar
kcts.
Strong as the prejudice may be at
first against the brown, plebeian look
ing loaf, il will vanish in most eases a,
the first taste, if the bread is well made
from we'll ground wheat % a good
quality, the sweet, fragrant, nutty flaw
or commanding itself t every taste
not wholly ,iliated. With wheat -four
the complaints of heavy. sour, and in.
sipid bread would vanish forever, as
il is SO light. owing I @ the fea.hery
particles of the hull which pervales
it, THAT no yeast or alkali is necessary
10 raise it, but it is, when mixed with
pure cold water alone. absolutely self
rising to a greater extent than fine
flour can be rendered by yeast. Again,
no less than thirteen per cent. Of the
flour is saved by dispensing with
yeast. as the fermentation in its
growth converts that proportion ofthe
starch and sugar into alcohol. This
j. saved, ofcourse. by the nse of alkali
and acid 10 generate carbonic acid,
but a deleterious neutral salt is in
every case left in the bread-tartarate
OF soda acid if cream oftartar is used,
~laciate Of soda if sour milk, and mel
l~assate if mollasses. The best and
most entirely innoxious mode Of rails
Ing fine -four for those who will use il,
is to Use muriatic acid, which forms.
with soda, common salt. which is
needed in the bread and is constitn-
ent Of the human body.