The Brinkley argus. (Brinkley, Ark.) 1883-current, 1917-04-27
Wiz BEAD
MAY Be USED
Whole Wheat Bread May Take the
Place of Southern Biscuit as war
Emergency and Is Healthier.

That whole wheat bread may be q
profitable substitute for the Southern
biscuit during the prevailing h1gn
prices OF all food products is the opin'
ion of Miss Isabelle Thursby, Special
list In Home Economics with the tx
tension Division of the University Ct
Arkansas and U. S. Department o.
Agriculture. who says:
Whole wheat bread substituted tor
the Southern biscuit is not only q
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
az any we know, and diet of whole
wheat produces more endurance than
q meat diet and those who live on a
diet of whole wheat have less tende1-
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 it's 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
greatest cure known for the most COM
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 coffee mill
properly adjusted will do the work
effectively. In view Of these facts,
would it. not be well 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 little more than $500
per bushel, while il purchased in the
form of some of the breakfast foods
on the market 1t has been estimated
would cost at least $4,000 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 Ovsrrated.
Something more than one-quarter
of century ago tho milling Of -four
became a fne art. The change came
about for two reasons. 1t seemed ne
cessary to make . flour 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 colorless
color" of chalk. The mills yielded
TO tho force OF circumstances and
they whitened -four to the pallor Of
death This was accomplished by TAX
ing on the bran coat which lies just
inside the hull or char. The bran
was not thought to be OF very much
use anyway, but neither the nillers
nor the housekeepers ever had heard
of vitamine 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 lays
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
-four or corn meal may also be lost or
perhaps. rendered less useful In cook
ing. The evil in the use OF these
highly milled -four is said to be In
creased by making the bread with SO
da instead of yeast for all alkali (bak
ing powdcr) left in the biscuit or corr
bread destroys more of the vitamines
For this reason, bread leavened b,
means Of yeast is TO be recommended
Soda should never De uSed IN Drea'
unless sufficient sour milk or othe
acid is added 10 fully nutralize III
alakalinity OF the baking soda"
Soda in Corn Bread An Evil.
Professor Voegtuin, with the Pull
lie Health Service. says that soda il
corn bread is an evil which was no
used until IL was found that hight
milled corn meal. when mixed wit
salt water. did not yield a bread C
the same lightness ss the old.fashior
ed meal Soda raised or quick he
breads, are much to commonly use
in the South"
Whole Wheat Boiled, Excellent
Breakfast Food.
Whole wheat. boiled. is an admiri
BILE breakfast food II is more muir
tious and more wholesome and ia
less expensive than many OF the maj
ufactured and widely advertise
breakfast foods on the markets. TIL
wheat, after being thoroughly washe
and dried. may be ground in the coffe