Chapter 1—Breads
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 49
Some do not feel that it is a religious duty to prepare food properly;
hence they do not try to learn how. They let the bread sour before
baking and the saleratus added to remedy the cook’s carelessness
makes it totally unfit for the human stomach. It requires thought and
care to make good bread. But there is more religion in a good loaf of
bread than many think.
Testimonies for the Church 1:681-684
It is a religious duty for every Christian girl and woman to learn
at once to make good, sweet, light bread from unbolted wheat flour.
Mothers should take their daughters into the kitchen with them when
very young, and teach them the art of cooking.
We frequently find graham bread heavy, sour, and but partially
baked. This is for want of interest to learn, and care to perform the
important duty of cook. Sometimes we find gem-cakes, or soft biscuit,
dried, not baked, and other things after the same order. And then cooks
will tell you they can do very well in the old style of cooking, but to
tell the truth, their families do not like graham bread; that they would
starve to live in this way.
I have said to myself, I do not wonder at it. It is your manner of
preparing food that makes it so unpalatable. To eat such food would
certainly give one the dyspepsia. These poor cooks, and those who
have to eat their food, will gravely tell you that the health reform does
not agree with them.
The stomach has not power to convert, poor, heavy, sour bread
into good; but this poor bread will convert a healthy stomach into a
diseased one. Those who eat such food know that they are failing in
strength. Is there not a cause? Some of these persons call themselves
health reformers but they are not. They do not know how to cook.
They prepare cakes, potatoes, and graham bread, but there is the same
round, with scarcely a variation, and the system is not strengthened.
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