The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-05-13
Farm, Garden and Household,
That Miserable Bread,

Good, wheat bread is said to be the staff
of lite, which is as emphatically true as
the saying that poor bread, sour bread,
soggy bread OF any other quality in which
the element OF good" does not prepon-
derate, is one of deaths surely fatal
weapons. Sour and unhealthy bread OF
any sort sends to premature graves more
victims who have dragged out a miserable
existence than war, pestilence and famine.
We can look at the days of boyhood to
the period of youth, early manhood and
maturity, and call up immense numbers
of friends and associates who sickened
from NO other cause than the slowly op-
Grating and fatal influence ofunwholesome
bread and who died for want of good
bread Untold numbers of our most es-
unable citizens scarcely know what good
bread is, and Il much larger number still
who esteem themselves as makers of good
bread never have known how to make
good bread, even when they are supplied
with the best Of flour
Wife and LAe writer once went to visit
distinguished author and authoress, his
" tie. who had written a book on domestic
economy Notwithstanding all the excel
lenGt- NJ the book it lacked the simple di-
This authoress supervised her own domes-
tic affairs and always made her own bread.
which her friends and neiehbors averred
was always sour When we paid them
visit the bread was SO unWholesome that
ii was exceedingly difficult to eat small
piece soon alter we commenced keeping
huuoe "a lady cousin, who was noted for
making uggy and sour bread, reproyed
"lh'tur 'iussiug 80 much with her dough"
Sine ayeiTed that she couldn't afford to
pcud so much time tussing with the
dough She worked at her dough only
When uu other duties required her atten-
rtou We were wont to visit them peri
ntiraliy lor twenty years. and we were al
ways treated with thai same sour, Soggy,
uaWholesome bread Those friends were
aud in their graves long, long ago. They
We're built to live Il hundred years, and
had it not been for ihis insidious influence
N bad bread they might have been alive
to-day II the hour is OF prime quality,
everything viii depend on manipulation
aud management For thirty years past
wife has made our own bread, and during
.l. that period not a single loaf of poor
Tread has been produced. Our servant
cook will take -four of the choicest brand
and produce bread .hal will give an alli-
gator the dyspepsia Wife will take the
same sort Of flour, the same domestic ap-
pliaAces, and bring ont the beautiful, al
MOST snowy white and spongy wheaton
loaf which is delightful luxury. Our
Kitchen ,erYant viii manage the golden
cream from the milk OF our one thousand
dollar cow and produce butter that APP
pears more like lard than any other SUBJ
stance Wife viii manage the cream the
next week. and in the same pantry, the
same pans. the same churn, butter-b bowl
aud ladic, bring out as Beautiful gilt-edged
butter as can be found in the market
These facts 90 TO prove that certain stere-
otyped practices in making bread will
spoil tluul, ~ the best quality, for human
food
The best recipe for making good bread
is TO find some person who never makes a
poor loaf Then let the learner 90 to his
on her place and take lessons in the pc
cuIar, careful and discreet manipulations
and management OF the flour and dough
UnuL she can produce bread that is tit to
ne called the ''stat1 of life If it requires
~iV months TO learn the lesson, let the
task be completed n Y Herald