Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-10-11
Wheat Bread.

her suggestions, and the reform must be a
fundamental one. Wheat is, beyond all
dispute, the most perfect article of human
food, il being the only vegetable produc-
ton yet discovered that contains all the
elements necessary for the nourishment
OF the muscles, bones, fatty tissues and
brains in just the right proportions. Beans,
peas, Indian corn and the other grains af-
ford perfect nourishment for all the organs
but the brain, by which term is included
the spinal marrow and the nerves, which
branch from the brain and are identified
in their composition with it, the whole
forming one system or set of organs. Now
the pabnluu Of the brain is phosphorus,
whose life-giving fire thrills along the
nerves, and whose light illumes the cham
bers of the mind.for could we rightly
understand the correspondence between
the material and the spiritual, we might
see that light in the intellectual sense was
something more than mere figure of
speech. The wear of the brain by study
or any mental effort throws off the phos-
phoros, which is found with other waste
matter in the urine or other secretions.
To keep the brain healthy and in working
order the waste must be restored by the
use Of food containing phosphorus, and
that food is wheat. IT would seem as if
wheat was made for brain food, and man,
the only animal that works with his brain,
is the only consumer Of it. But by
strange caprice the promptings Of his in
buttons are overruled by his tastes, and in
this particular instance to his great detri-
ment-nearly every particle Of this brain
nourishing phosphorus is found in the hull
or bean Of the wheat, which when sepa-
rated from the -four, for the sake Of mere
~ gratifying the eye with the sight of
white bread. carries with it all the superi-
ority which wheat possesses over dozen
other kinds Of cheaper vegetables. In
addition to these the mechanical action of
the bean on the internal organs keeps them
in healthy state, and supercedes the ne
cessity Of pills and other cathartics which
many people are obliged to use habtually.
The manner of making -four Of the whole
wheat is well understood and approved by
every school Of physicians and through
theirrecommendation to their patients, and
the teachings Of health journals, its use is
becoming somewhat common, and wheat
-four, as it is called, is a staple article in
the markets.
Strong as the prejudice may be at first
against the brown, plebian looking loaf, it
will vanish in most cases at the first taste,
if the bread is well made from well ground
wheat Of good quality, the sweet, fra
grant nutty flavor commencing itself to
every taste not wholly vitiated. With
wheat -four the complaints of heavy, sour
and insipid bread would vanish forever
- light, u~iug q the tight feathery
particles Of the hull which pervades it,
that no yeast or alksli can raise it, but it
is, when mixed with pure cold water alone,
absolutely seifraising 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 the yeast,
as the fermentation in its growth converts
that proportion Of the starch and sugar
into alcohol. This is saved of course, by
the use of an alkali and acid to generate
carbonic acid, but a deletcrious neutral
salt is left in the bread--tartate of soda if
cream of tartar is used, lactate Of soda if
sour milk, and mellassate of molasses.
The best and most innoxious mode of rails
ing the fine -four for those who will use it
Is TO use muriate acid, which forms with
soda common salt, which is needed II The
bread, and is constituent Of the human
body.
Not only does wheat, all ground to-
gether into what is called Graham -four,
give increased power to the brain by fur
nishing phosphorus, as stated in the above
article, but SO likewise do eggs, oysters,
and. all kinds of fish and beans. This
matter is of Importance TO al who wish 10
have their minds constantly strong and
bright
EGGS By WEIGHT.-A dozen eggs is a
little more definite quantity than a dozen
potatoes. but still ryindefinite quantity.
A dozen of eggs from little, scrawny i'll
kept chickens sell for the same price as a
dozen from large, weil-kept fowls, while
the difference between them is as great a
the disparity between the hens that pro.
duce them. Purchasers in the market
take their chances for big and little, and
each gets fair average. But it is not SC
with the producers. ard here is where the