Field, Forest and Farm

Field, Forest and Farm

Field, Forest and Farm - Things interesting to young nature-lovers, including some matters of moment to gardeners...
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Author: Fabre, Jean-Henri,1823-1915
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Language: English
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Field, Forest and Farm

Field, Forest and Farm

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Field, Forest and Farm

$19.99 $9.99
Author: Fabre, Jean-Henri,1823-1915
Format: eBook
Language: English

Field, Forest and Farm - Things interesting to young nature-lovers, including some matters of moment to gardeners and fruit-growers

Bread is made of flour, he began, and flour is wheat reduced to powder under the millstone. What an interesting mechanism that is, the flour-mill, driven by water, by the wind, sometimes by steam! What wearisome effort, what waste of time, if we had not this invention and were forced to do its work of grinding by sheer strength of arm! I must tell you that in ancient times, for want of knowing how to grind wheat, people had to content themselves with crushing it between two stones after parching it a little over the fire. The coarse meal thus obtained was cooked in water to a sort of porridge and eaten with no further preparation. Bread was unknown. Later the plan was hit upon of kneading the meal with water and of cooking the dough between two hot stones. Thus was obtained a crude sort of biscuit, about as thick as your finger, stodgy and hard, [4]and mixed with charcoal and ashes. It was preferable to the porridge, the insipid paste, of the earlier time, but far inferior to the poorest bread of to-day. To make a long story short, by trial after trial success was at last attained in the making of bread like ours. It became necessary then, without possessing anything to compare with our mills, to grind wheat in large quantities. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 67813
Author: Fabre, Jean-Henri
Release Date: Apr 11, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publication Date: 1919
Publisher Country: United States

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Translator: Bicknell, Florence Constable

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