UNWHOLESOME BREAD.
wholesome. Heavy bread is dangerously so. That
that which has become sour, either from having
been over-fermented in the making, or from having
been ill-managed afterwards, is very objectionable; and mouldy bread also is unfit for food.
For constant eating, bread made with tartaric
acid is not to be recommended, though its occa-
sional use will do no harm. Invalids whose
digestion is much impaired, should avoid bread
enriched with butter, eggs, or cream; and when
they suffer acutely, a small portion only of milk
should be mixed with that on which they habitually
subsist.
It is scarcely needful to name the flour of
highly damaged corn as furnishing unhealthy diet.
Mention has recently been made in our leading
journal of some which was absolutely putrid; and
in its transit from the coast to London, was a
cause of annoyance, from the dreadful smell which
it emitted, to the passengers of the train by which
it was conveyed. This was, perhaps, an extreme
case, and it might not be destined to find its way
to the bakers; but I cannot too often or too
forcibly repeat, that to nourish the eaters as it
ought, and to sustain “man’s strength” as it was
their ignorance of bread-making (as they cannot afford to
throw away the food they have spoiled), experience alarming
effects from living on it. Some striking instances of this
have become known to me.