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The National Geographic Magazine 



A BREAD WALLA.H, JEYPORF,, INDIA 



These round, flat cakes of unleavened bread are more like pancakes than any other article 

 of food in common use among us. The cakes are called chapatties. The cook shapes them 

 between his hands and bakes them on a griddle or on the coals. They are made of wheat 

 flour, and are a common article of diet among the well-to-do classes in central and northern 

 India. The poorer people eat cake made of corn meal, millet, and a coarse, hard grain called 

 raggy. In western India barley cakes are eaten to some extent. In the south boiled rice is 

 made into cakes known as hoppers, which is the Anglo-Indian rendering of the Tamil appa. 

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