The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-09-04
SHREVEPORT:
Wheat Bread,

Our whole process Of converting wheat into bread
has at almost every step violated the laws of nature
and disregarded her suggestions, and the reform must
be fundamental one. Wheat il beyond all dispute,
the most perfect article of human food it being the
only vegetable production vet discovered that contains
all the elements necessary for the nourshment OF the
muscle bones fatty tissue and brains in just the right
proportion. Beans, peas, Indian corn and the other
grains afford 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 identical in composition with it, the whole
forming one system or set of organs Now the pabu
lum OF the brain is phosphorus, whose tegving fire
thrills along the nerves. and whose light illumes the
chambers of the minG-for could we rightly under
stand the correspondence between the material and
the spiritual, we might that light in the intelec
tna sense was something than mere figure of
speech This wear of the brain by study any men,
tai effort throws off the phosphorus, which is found
with other waste matter in the secreons. TO keep
the brain healthy and in working order, the waste
must be restored by the of food containing phos-
phorus, and that food is wheat.
1t would seem if wheat 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 prompting5 of his ntuitions are overrued by his
tastes and in this particular instance to his great det
rment, nearly every particle OF this brainnourshng
phosphorus found in the hull bean of the wheat
which, when separated from the -four, for the sake Of
merely gratifying the eve with the sight of white
bread carries with it all the superiority which wheat
possesses dozen other kinds of cheaper vegcta-
bles. In addition to this, the mechanical action of
the bean the internal organs keeps them in heal
thy state, and supersedes the necessity of pills and
other cathartcs which many people obliged to use
habually. This matter of making -four of the whole
wheat, is well understood and approved by every
school of physicians, and through their recommends
ton to their PATIENTS and the teachings of health
journals its use is becoming somewhat common, and
wheat -four, it is called, is Il staple article in the
markets.
Strong as the prejudice may be at first against the
brown, fredericksburg loaf it will vanish in most
at the first taste if the bread is well made from
wellground wheat of good quality the sweet, fra
grant, putty flavor commencing it to every taste not
thoroughly Initiated. With wheat -four the complaints
Of heavy, sour and nspid bread would vanish forev-
or it is light owing to the feahery particles of
the hull which pervade it. but it is when mixed with
pure cold water alone, absolutely selrsng great
extent than fine -four can be rendered by yeast.
Again no less than thirteen per cent. of the -four is
saved by dispensing with yeast, 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 alka and acid to generate carbonic acid
but deeterous neutral salt is in every case left in
the breadtartrate Of Soda if cream Of tartar is used
lactate OF soda, if milk and melassate, if moas
ses The best and most entirely nnoxous mode of
raising fine -four for those who will use it. is to use
muriatc acid, which forms with soda common salt,
which s needed i'll the bread and is constituent of
the human BODY