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... MEANS OF MACHINERY AND STEAM POWER , WITH M. ROLLAND'S APPARATUS AND OVENS . ― The Bread Question more seriously considered Abroad than in England . The great interest manifested in it by In- telligent Men . - The Insalubrity and other ...
... MEANS OF MACHINERY AND STEAM POWER , WITH M. ROLLAND'S APPARATUS AND OVENS . ― The Bread Question more seriously considered Abroad than in England . The great interest manifested in it by In- telligent Men . - The Insalubrity and other ...
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... means of existence ; for it is a precious commodity to them , —a fact which philan- thropic theorists do not always keep sufficiently in view when they are suggesting economical plans for bettering their domestic condition . As it is ...
... means of existence ; for it is a precious commodity to them , —a fact which philan- thropic theorists do not always keep sufficiently in view when they are suggesting economical plans for bettering their domestic condition . As it is ...
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... means ; but when , in addition to it , they have to contend against its adulteration and a deficiency of its weight also , their lot becomes one of severe hardship and struggle . What can be done for its improve- ment ? is the question ...
... means ; but when , in addition to it , they have to contend against its adulteration and a deficiency of its weight also , their lot becomes one of severe hardship and struggle . What can be done for its improve- ment ? is the question ...
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... means of books . Every woman , high or low , ought to know how to make bread ; if she do not she is a mere burthen upon the community . Yet it is but too true , that many women , even amongst those who get their living by their labour ...
... means of books . Every woman , high or low , ought to know how to make bread ; if she do not she is a mere burthen upon the community . Yet it is but too true , that many women , even amongst those who get their living by their labour ...
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... means of life . * To foreigners , it may be observed , the want of good bread in England is known to be a source of severe privation ; the best which they can pur- chase here- from its totally different character to all they have been ...
... means of life . * To foreigners , it may be observed , the want of good bread in England is known to be a source of severe privation ; the best which they can pur- chase here- from its totally different character to all they have been ...
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Académie des Sciences acid adulteration alum amongst Author baked bakers best flour better bread-making brewers bushel cakes CHARLES MERIVALE cheaper Edition cloth cold coloured Comprising Containing corn Dictionary dough Encyclopædia England English entirely excellent fermentation fire flavour flour France gallon GEORGE MOORE German yeast gluten grain half heat History hour improvement ingredients JAMES MARTINEAU kilogrammes kneaded kneader labour left to rise less light liquid loaf loaves maize meal milk and water mixed morocco muriatic acid nature numerous nutritious ounce oven Paris perfectly pint Plates polenta portion Portrait and Vignette Post 8vo pound of flour prepared price 21s price 58 proportion quantity quarts receipt render revised ROBERT SOUTHEY Rolland Royal Sally Lunn salt Second Edition soda sponge spoon Square crown 8vo stirred sufficient tartaric acid teaspoonful thick three quarters tion vols warm wheat wheaten wholesome Woodcuts
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