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tions, that is found, wc arc sorry to say, in many families, all 

 the butter and molasses that can be piled upon it would not 

 maice the children happy, except they licked otf the sweets and 

 threw away the sour. Such bread would not make them other- 

 wise than peevish and unsettled in disposition ; — eViiii more — 

 bad bread has as much misery to the human race to answer 

 for, as almost anything else ; for wlierever in any family bad 

 bread is the sustenance of that family, as a rule, you would 

 find it constitutionally sickly, intemperate, ill-tempered, and 

 perhaps worse, or else the precept " that the pliysical condition 

 of mankind influences its mental and moral powers'' is a false 

 one. It is hard to believe that bad bread, as a rule, in any 

 family, will raise men and women whose physical constitution 

 will be good ; therefore, any society, or individual that can in 

 any manner extend the limit of good household bread by en- 

 couraging the making of the best kinds and making known its 

 good qualities and how it was made so, in print, or by personal 

 efforts in showing others, is a minister of more good to the 

 human race tiian any one realizes who has not given it thought. 



Do you not think, readers, that bad bread with bad cofllee, 

 tends to promote intemperate habits and its attendant evils, 

 while good bread, with or without good coffee, greatly promotes 

 temperate habits with its attendant happiness. 



The process of making bread in Bible times was similar to 

 that of the present time with us. " "The flour was first mixed 

 with water, or perhaps milk ; it was then kneaded with the 

 hands (in Egypt with the feet also), in a small wooden bowl 

 or " kneading trough " until it became dough. When the 

 kneading was completed leaven was generally added. This 

 was composed of various substances, but the ordinary leaven 

 consisted of a lump of old dough in a high state of fermenta- 

 tion, inserted into the mass of dough prepared for baking ; but 

 when time was shore for preparation it was omitted and unleav- 

 ened cakes hastily baked were eaten, as is still the prevalent 

 custom among the Bedouins The leavened mass was allowed 

 to stand for some time. The dough was then divided into 



