284 ADULTERATIONS OP ALIMENTARY SUBSTANCES. 
robbery against the consumer, if bread prepared with farina 
mixed with fecula, and which contains less gluten, is, as 
many scientific men think, less nutritious; it is a robbery, 
especially injurious to the workmen, who cannot, like the 
rich, like men in easy circumstances, eat as much meat as 
they will. 
We are convinced that a white, savory, and wholesome 
bread might be prepared with fecula and wheat flour in the 
proportion of 25 to 50 per cent, of farina to from 50 to 75 
of fecula, which might be sold at a lower price than bread 
made of pure wheat-flour, but the composition of this bread 
should be notified by the maker and sold at its real value. 
2.— Of Bread. 
The frauds in this article of food are happily much more 
rare in France than in a neighboring country (Belgium,) 
where the sulphates of copper and zinc are added to the 
paste, in consequence of the erroneous idea that the addi- 
tion of these salts gives rise to a more considerable produc- 
tion of bread.* This culpable adulteration was, for some 
time, practised in France, but it has been totally abandoned 
for some years. 
It is a positive fact that baked potatoes are used in the 
preparation of bread, and that a patent has recently been 
sold for the application already made of this mode of pani- 
flcation. 
We do not think that the Administration can forbid him 
who prepares bread for his own use to introduce into it any 
substances he pleases ; but we think that the Administration 
should not tolerate in Paris the introduction, by the baker, 
of any substance whatever into the bread sold for public 
* The Court of Appeal at Brussels, M. Espital, President, has confirmed 
the sentence which condemned a baker, named Pennincky, to two years' impri- 
sonment, and a fine of 200 florins of the Low Countries, and deprived him of 
his right of patent, for having introduced sulphate of copper into the bread 
which he prepared. 
