IX.] CORN IS APPLICABLE. 



how the corn may be made to give its assistance 

 in the work. I am here supposing the bread to be 

 home-made, and that it is for use in a farmer's, 

 a tradesman's, or a labouring man's, family ; for, 

 as to those who have money to waste without 

 any real injury to themselves, they may as well 

 waste it on the article of bread as in purchasing 

 throats-full of gas-stink, at the playhouses, or 

 elsewhere, with the reversion of a smother, by 

 way of inducement to purchase. As to the 

 general mode of making bread at liGme, it has 

 been, by me, fully and circumstantially laid down 

 in Cottage Economy; and, it has happened 

 to me, to become, since that little work was 

 published, personally acquainted with several ; I 

 might, I think, say more than twenty , mistresses 

 of families, who have actually learned to make, 

 or to have made, bread in their own houses, and 

 who, until they read that book, never thought of 

 such a thing in their lives. In still more instances, 

 I have met with people now brewing their own 

 beer, who had never before thought of it, more 

 than of making their own pepper or ginger. I 

 cannot, even if I would, repeat here that which 

 I have said in " Cottage Economy," relativ^e 

 to the making of bread in general, because I have 

 not room ; and, if there were not this objection, 

 it ought not to be done, seeing that those who 

 have not read " Cottage Economy," would still 



