A Treatise on Bread, and Bread-making (Annotated)

A Treatise on Bread, and Bread-making is both a practical manual and a reformist manifesto, arguing that wholesome bread depends on unbolted wheat flour, careful fermentation, pure ingredients, and domestic vigilance. Written in a plain yet urgent didactic style, it joins household instruction to physiological theory, placing bread within the nineteenth-century culture of health reform, anti-adult...