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loaves of meatbread made in 1873 were submitted to the French Academy of Science, when not a trace of mouldiness was observable. At the beginning of his- experiments M. Scheurer-Kestner used raw meat, three parts of which, finely minced, he mixed with five parts of flour, and the same quantity of yeast. Sufficient water was added to make the dough, which in due time began to ferment. After two or three hours the meat disappeared, and the bread was baked in the ordinary manner. Thus prepared, the meat-bread had a disagreeable sour taste, which was avoided by cooking the meat for an hour with sufficient water to afterwards moisten the the flour. The meat must be carefully deprived of fat, and only have sufficient salt to bring out the flavour, {is salt, by absorbing moisture from the air, would tend to spoil the bread. A part of the beef may be replaced with advantage by salt lard, -which is found to improve the flavour. The proportion of meat to flour should not exceed one-half, so as to ensure complete digestion. Bread made with a suitable proportion of veal is said to furnish excellent soup for the sick and wounded.

Smoking- Mixtures.— Tobacco, like those who smoke it (remarka an English paper), is credited with many sins of which it is guiltless. The " loss ol health " eo often laid at its door is probably due in many instances not to tobacco itself, but to some villainous compound! bearing Kb name. A story told by the principal of the laboratory of the Inland Revenue Department ia his report for the past year showß : how easily this may happen. The supervisor at Birmingham, observing that an article was being sold at a very: cheap rate in packets, under the name of " smoking mixture," sent a sample to the Inland Revenue laboratory for examination, and it being found to contain a large proportion of vegetable matter resembling tfe broken up heads of camomile flowers, further inquiry led to the discovery of the manufactory. The prooesa of, manufacture consisted in exhaustion the bitter principle of camomile flowerheada with water, and then dyeing and! swaeteoing (hem with a solution of logwood and liquorice, which brought them, when dried, somewhat to thoj eolor of tobacco. The heads when: broken up, were then mixed with from 20 to 30 per cent, of cut tobacco, according to the price at which the mix- ; tare wes to be sold* The mixture war supplied to retailers in packets labelled' "The New Smoking Mixture, Analysed and Approved ; " and as agencies bad' already been established in several towns, an extensive trade would no: doubt soon have arisen hadj the manufactory not been suppressed at an early stage of its existence.

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