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was separated from that of baking.
The Rome of Caesars divided bakers in
to three separate classes: white bakers,
milk bakers and sweet bakers. The
white or ''wheat' bakers were the prin-
cipal purveyors of bread. The milk
bakers dispensed wares resembling
buns. The sweet bakers displayed their
inventive gifts IN tn, preparation of
tarts, honey cakes. and other dainties
principally eaten at dessert.
Oil was possibly used by the sweet
bakers in making a crisp pastry; butter
never
But er, WHOSE association with bread
is so familiar to us, hid position by
no means exalted. The name is Greek:
bntyron; the Romans adopted the word
into their language IN the form of buty-
rum, from which are derived the Ital-
ian burro, tn, beurre, and the English
butter.
Butter, however, never ranked as an
ar. icle of food either IN Greece or Rome.
TWAS regarded as medicine applied
externally as salve and used internal
" in cases of malnutrition, as cod-liver
oil is employed at the present day. 1t
was used neither in cooking, nor to
spread upon bread; indeed, the latter
would have app AIRED to the Greeks and
Romans as shocking as the Esquimau
blubber does to us.
SO IN ancient times there was no
such thing as bread and butter. Yet
the Thracians, the barbarous Greeks
whom Blind recently termed Hellenized
Germans, may be distinguished from
the true Greeks in this respect as well
as in regard to drinking beer. Both
thess facts, til, ThrAcians partiality for
beer and their knowledge of the ancient
German custom of eating bread and
butter. lend powerful support to Blinds
hypothesis.
In the Rome of the Caesars, besides
the bak,shops carried on by individual
enterprise, there were extensive gov
eminent bakeries, which were of the
utmos: impor ance in supplying the
capital, and especially the vast num-
Der of proletrians of the last few CEN
turtles. The emperors devoted the ut
most a tention to these institutions,
provided first for the necessary stores
of grain, and from time to time tested
the quality of wares furnished.
Roman ovens closely resemble ours.
Several decades ago well preserved
specimen was excavated in Pompeli,
which contained number of charred
lolves put in on the twenty-third Of
November, 70. These loaves bore the
bakers stamp, marking the kind of
flour from which they had been made:
for instance, cicer" (pea floar) La
ter, some time during the sixties, Sig
nor Fiorelli discovered another oven
which had been so Theoretically sealed
that not even particle of ashes could
enter. Here We're found not less than
eighty-one perfectly preserved loaves as
hard It's stone.
The average weight Of the Pompeii-
an loves is two pounds; their shape is
roundish with slight depression in
the centre, from which radiate to the
OUTER edge eight ind.nted lines, divid-
ing the bread into eight equal portions.
1t has been ascertained thai, at the
present day, 'oaves precisely similar
are baked in Sicily.
The fact that in Rome, where the
pampered tastes OF the upper ten thou
sand made them turn from bread, it
still remained the priuc pal article of
food among the proletarians-corr s.
ponding wi h IIato's ideal, which re-
quired the citizens Of his republic to
live mainly upon barley pudding and
bread-arose from the cons altlv in
creasing importance of tn So govern
mant bakerie', whence proceeded the
short "p mem ct circenses'' (bread and
games in the clrcus) with which the
popn'ancs of the capital boldly greeted
their Ces IFS. Heads of wild boars
murana, and Pnacian birds for the
rich bread for the beggar was
the distribution of food in the Rome o
the Caesars; the games in the circus
which were common to all, acted as al
equa iz'ng fac or and t. the common
people Outranked bread.
81 like to look at you," said deal
little girl to a stately woman one day
"Why:" asked the latter, pleased al
the Chi dish confidence. "Because YOU
eyes are so green was he unexpected
answer.
Th' breed that lays a great man,
eggs does not produce the best :abl
fowls.