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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
In the making of raised or yeast bread, milk should not be used in
place of water. The use of milk is an additional expense, and it makes
the bread much less wholesome. Milk bread does not keep sweet so
long after baking as does that made with water, and it ferments more
readily in the stomach.
Bread should be light and sweet. Not the least taint of sourness
should be tolerated. The loaves should be small, and so thoroughly
baked that, so far as possible, the yeast germs shall be destroyed.
When hot, or new, raised bread of any kind is difficult of digestion. It
should never appear on the table. This rule does not, however, apply
to unleavened bread. Fresh rolls made of wheaten meal, without yeast
or leaven, and baked in a well-heated oven, are both wholesome and
palatable....
Zwieback, or twice baked bread, is one of the most easily digested
and most palatable of foods. Let ordinary raised bread be cut in slices
and dried in a warm oven till the last trace of moisture disappears.
Then let it be browned slightly all the way through. In a dry place this
bread can be kept much longer than ordinary bread, and if reheated
before using, it will be as fresh as when new.
Manuscript 3, 1897
Great care should be taken when the change is made from a flesh-
meat to a vegetarian diet to supply the table with wisely prepared,
well-cooked articles of food. So much porridge eating is a mistake.
The dry food that requires mastication is far preferable. The health
food preparations are a blessing in this respect. Good brown bread and
rolls, prepared in a simple manner, yet with painstaking effort, will be
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healthful. Bread should never have the slightest taint of sourness. It
should be cooked until it is most thoroughly done. Thus all softness
and stickiness will be avoided.
For those who can use them, good vegetables, prepared in a health-
ful manner, are better than soft mushes or porridge. Fruits used with
thoroughly cooked bread two or three days old will be more health-
ful than fresh bread. This, with slow and thorough mastication, will
furnish all that the system requires.
The mixing largely of white or brown flour bread with milk in the
place of water is not a healthful preparation. If the bread thus cooked