Breads
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They seem to think the time wasted which is devoted to obtaining a
thorough experience in the preparation of healthful, palatable food....
In many families we find dyspeptics, and frequently the reason of
this is the poor bread. The mistress of the house decides that it must
not be thrown away, and they eat it. Is this the way to dispose of poor
bread? Will you put it into the stomach to be converted into blood?
Has the stomach power to make sour bread sweet? heavy bread light?
moldy bread fresh? ...
Many a wife and mother who has not had the right education and
lacks skill in the cooking department, is daily presenting her family
with ill-prepared food which is steadily and surely destroying the di-
gestive organs, making a poor quality of blood, and frequently bringing
on acute attacks of inflammatory disease and causing premature death.
Many have been brought to their death by eating heavy, sour bread.
An instance was related to me of a hired girl who made a batch of sour,
heavy bread. In order to get rid of it and conceal the matter, she threw
it to a couple of very large hogs. Next morning the man of the house
found his swine dead, and upon examining the trough, found pieces
of this heavy bread. He made inquiries, and the girl acknowledged
what she had done. She had not a thought of the effect of such bread
upon the swine. If heavy, sour bread will kill swine, which can devour
rattlesnakes, and almost every detestable thing, what effect will it have
upon that tender organ, the human stomach?
Testimonies for the Church 2:537-538
We see sallow complexions and groaning dyspeptics wherever we
go. When we sit at the tables, and eat the food cooked in the same
manner as it has been for months, and perhaps years, I wonder that
these persons are alive. Bread and biscuit are yellow with saleratus.
This resort to saleratus was to save a little care; in consequence of
forgetfulness, the bread is often allowed to become sour before baking,
and to remedy the evil a large portion of saleratus is added, which only
makes it totally unfit for the human stomach. Saleratus in any form
should not be introduced into the stomach; for the effect is fearful. It
eats the coatings of the stomach, causes inflammation and frequently
poisons the entire system. Some plead, “I can not make good bread
or gems unless I use soda or saleratus.” You surely can if you will