The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-05-26
WAR BREAD
MAY Be USED
Whole Wheat Bread May Take the
Place of Southern Biscuit as War
Emergency and Ie Healthier.

! That whole wheat bread may be Il
/ htable substitute for the Southern
biscuit during the prevailing high
prices of all food products is the opin-
ion of Miss Isabelle Thursby, Special
list in Home Economics with the Elk
tension Division Of the University If
Agriculture, who says:
Whole wheat bread substituted tor
the Southern biscuit is not only a
good war emergency measure, but it
is more economical and more health
full than white flower bread
Whole Wheat in Diet Highly Praised.
For whole wheat as food, hardly
too much can be said in its praise.
1t comes as near being perfect food
as any we know, and diet of whole
wheat produces more endurance than
a meat diet and those who live on a
diet of whole wheat have less tendon
cy to fatigue"
There are a number of old-fashion-
ed mills in Arkansas and it ought to
be easy to obtain both old-fashioned
corn meal and wheat -four. Wheat
| -four in the form that nature intended,
and not robbed of its bran, middlings
| and shorts-the brain, nerve, bone
and blood food. Bran, though indi-
gestible, does not give people indiges-
ton, but on the other hand is the
! tot .no
mon disease in the world-constipa-
ton, the mother of all diseases.
Method Of Obtaining Whole Wheat
Flour inexpensive.
"A power mill for grinding wheat
and corn can be obtained for about
$500 and a small grist mill which
will do the work for small family
can be obtained for as little as so
cents. 1t is said that a coffee mill
properly adjusted will do the work
effectively In view of these facts.
would it not be we'll for every Arkan-
sas housewife to buy whole wheat
and grind it for bread? Surely this
would be much better since wheat in
|
prices cost a little more than $500
per bushel, while if purchased in the
form of some OF the breakfast foods
| on the market it has been estimated
would cost at least $1,000 a bushel.
In addition, whole wheat bread has
been proven conclusively to be much
better for the health of the family
than the Southern biscuit
White Flour Overrated.
Something more than one-Quarter
OF a century ago the milling of -four
became a fine art. The change came
about for two reasons. 1t seemed ne
cessary to make -four which could
be stored for long periods of time and
| the women of America became imbued
with the idea that the desirable shade
In certain foods was the coorless
color OF chalk. The mills yielded
| to the force Of circumstances and
they whitened -four to the palor of
| death This was accomplished by TAX
ing off the bran coat which lies just
inside the hull or chaff The bran
was not thought to be OF very much
use anyway, but neither the millers
nor the housekeepers ever had heard
of yitamine molecule, nor knew that
| they as accessory food substitutes
were WORTH their weight in gold to the
consumers of -four nor that these
molecules are located in the bran and
| thus they killed the goose that laws
the golden egg of health in every
grain Of wheat"
Bread Leavened BY Yeast Is
Recommended.
"These vitamines which are re-
moved in the too highly milled wheat
flour or corn meal may also be lost or.
perhaps, rendered less useful in cook
ing. The evil in the use of these
highly milled flour is said to be ir-
creased by making the bread with So
da instead of yeast for all alkali (bak-
ing POWDER left in the biscuit or corn
bread destroys more of the vitamines
For this reason bread Ieavened by
means Of yeast is to be recommended.
| Soda should never be used in bread
ulleaS SuIuC1tHi sour milk or other
acid is added to fully nutralize the
alakalinity of the baking soda"
Soda in Corn Bread An Evil.
Professor Voegtuin with the Pub
lie Health Service, says that soda in
corn bread is an evil which was not
used until it was found that highly
milled corn meal, when mixed with
! salt water did not yield a bread CT
the same lightness as the old-fashion.
ed meal Soda raised, or quick hot
breads, are much to commonly used
in the South"
Whole Wheat Boiled, Excellent
Breakfast Food.
whole wheat, boiled, is an admira-
bic breakfast food. 1t is more nutri-
tious and more wholesome and far
less expensive than many of the man
ufactured and widely advertised