products of the vegetable kingdom, may also be manufactured into bread,
but none of them will make so good bread as wheat. Good rye, raised on a
sandy soil, when cleansed and ground in the manner I have already
described, and prepared in all respects according to the rules I have
laid down, will make very excellent bread. Rye, coarsely ground, without
bolting, and mixed with Indian meal, makes very wholesome bread, when it
is well made. Good rye and Indian bread is far more wholesome for common
or every-day use, than that made of superfine flour.
There are various ways of preparing Indian meal bread; and when such
bread is well made, it is very wholesome—much more so, for every-day
use, than superfine flour bread. “In a memoir lately read before the
French Academy,” says the Journal of Health, “the author undertook to
show that maize (Indian corn) is more conducive to health than any other
grain; and, as a proof of this, the fact was adduced that, in one of the
departments in which this grain was most abundantly and universally
used, the inhabitants were remarkable for their health and vigor.”
One great drawback to the wholesomeness of Indian meal bread, however,
is, that it is almost universally eaten hot, and too generally, pretty
well oiled with butter, or some other kind of animal fat or oil. But
Indian meal bread can be prepared in such a manner as to obviate these
difficulties, and render it very wholesome.
Barley and oats may be manufactured into very wholesome bread; but they
are little used for such purposes in this country.
Rice, peas, beans, potatoes, &c., may also, by mixing them with a
portion of wheat or rye flour, be manufactured into bread; but, as I
have already stated, there is no other kind of grain or farinaceous
vegetable substance from which so good loaf bread can be made, as good
wheat.
In making bread from Indian meal, and other kinds of farinaceous
substances containing little or no gluten, yeast or leaven is rarely if
ever used to make it light. More generally sour milk or butter-milk and
saleratus or soda are used for this purpose; and they who do not well
understand the principle upon which these substances make their bread
light, often greatly impair their own success by their mismanagement.
It is, perhaps, most common for them to mix their sour milk or
butter-milk and saleratus together, and wait till the effervescence is
over, before they stir in their meal. But by this means they lose the
greater part of the gas or air by which their dough should be made
light.
The true way is, to take their sour milk or butter-milk, and stir meal
into it till a thin batter is formed, and then dissolve their saleratus
or soda, and stir that quickly and thoroughly into the batter, and then
hastily add meal till the batter or dough is brought into the
consistency desired.
If, instead of sour milk or butter-milk, a solution of muriatic or
tartaric acid is used, the bread will be equally light. In this case,
the batter should be first made with a solution of saleratus or soda,
and then the solution of acid should be stirred in as above described.
Batter cakes are made in this manner very light and very promptly. When
from any cause batter or dough mixed with yeast fails to rise according
to expectations, the thorough mixing in, first the solution of muriatic
or tartaric acid, and then the solution of saleratus or soda, will, in a
few minutes, make the whole mass very light; but such cakes and bread
are not so sweet and savory as those raised with good sweet yeast.
I have said that recently ground meal makes far sweeter and richer
bread, than that which has been ground a considerable time; but as it is
not convenient for many families to send to a mill as often as they
would like to have fresh meal, they are obliged generally to use staler
meal or flour than they would choose. Yet every family might easily be
furnished with a modern patent hand-mill, constructed after the plan of
a coffee mill, with which they could at all times, with great ease,
grind their wheat, and rice, and corn, as they want it, for bread and
other purposes. With these mills they can grind their stuff as finely or
coarsely as they wish, for bread or hominy, and always have it very
fresh and sweet.
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A LECTURE TO YOUNG MEN,
ON
CHASTITY.
INTENDED ALSO FOR THE SERIOUS CONSIDERATION OF
PARENTS AND GUARDIANS.
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FOOTNOTES.
Footnote A:
In this same manner the Sandwich Islanders cooked all their food, when
they were first discovered.
Footnote B:
An aged and very respectable member of the Society of Friends, in New
York, who had long been extensively engaged in the flour business in
that city, and who had always had his family bread made in his own
house, was one day asked by his daughter, why he never used the
baker’s bread:—“Because, my child,” replied he, “I know what it is
made of.”
Footnote C:
See Memoirs of Philadelphia Agricultural Society. Vol. I. p. 226.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE.
This eBook makes the following corrections to the printed text:
● Pg iv
○ sour milk or buttermilk
○ sour milk or butter-milk
● Pg 38
○ their bread stuff before it is ground
○ their bread-stuff before it is ground
● Pg 44
○ the well being of those who have been the consumers
○ the well-being of those who have been the consumers
● Pg 49
○ there are indviduals in every city
○ there are individuals in every city
● Pg 77
○ stir in good indian meal
○ stir in good Indian meal
● Pg 88
○ In order to this
○ In order to do this
● Pg 124
○ “Keep ... no bread with his dinner,
○ “Keep ... no bread with his dinner,”
● Pg 130
○ first the solution of muriatic or tartartic acid
○ first the solution of muriatic or tartaric acid
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