GERMANY'S BREAD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 223, 27 February 1915, Page 6

GERMANY'S BREAD.

RIGID RESTRICTIONS. MORNING ROLLS BANNED. London, January ft Interesting information is reaching this country as to the attempts (,Vr many is making in the matter of ram omking food. By the ollieial regulations ] says the Rotterdam correspondent, Gcr many is to have no more morning rolls hah rs must not work at night, good Hour must not h<. sprinkled on tli<- baking hoards to help the. bakers to roll and knead tin- dough, and Germans must in dulge only twice a week in their much loved cake. Probably, they will not complain, for the Kaiser, it' is annoimc <d, eats nothing but Keor war bread ami what is good for his '•All-Highness.' iii geed enough fcr stay-at-home civil ians. The Socialists, is seems from the Gcr man papers, appear convinced that thov will snatch a little advantage from the situation which the stross of war lia* brought about. They hone that night work in the bakeries will never be revived. Eut the little bakers fear that disaster awaits them. They say. according to the Norddeutschc" Allgemcine Zcitung, that the housewives when shopping at night will buy some of the whitest bread they can get for the breakfast table, and that this will be the ~:•:.'.-.-.:t, net cf the small bakeries, but cf the large ones. According to the. regulations which have been drawn up, it is now forbidden to b"';e absolutely pure wheat or ry< bread. Wheat bread must contain at hast 30 per cent of rve flour, while wheat flour may, in addition, be still further adulterated up to 20 per cent by potato flour. Rye bread may not have more than f>o per cent of rye' flour, the remainder beine potato flour. Even of adulterated white bread the loavs must not exceed one-fifth of a pound, and rye bread must not he sold within 24 hfurs of its having be:<n baked. The restriction of rnke-lr.kieg to twice a weekwill, it is minted cut.'pjlow of its being regulated. STALE BREAD THE BEST. Police offiren and experts ]iav e been authorised to see that these new laws, which are obviously the result of the recent inquiry into the grain supply in Germany, are stringently carried "out They can seize samples' of bread anywhere and at any time when the laws come fully into me 'On the 15th inst. The mills are to be compelled to grind at least 80 per cent of the grain into wheat and rye flour, stale bread has to be doctored and sold as new. and only hopelessly spoiled bread mav be sold as cattle food, which was formerly the destination of almost all stale German bread. But we have it on authority of the Allgemeine Zeitung' that rye bread ta=te S best when not altogether fresh. The Nieuwe Rottordamsche Courant states that a meeting of agriculturists, millers and bakers has been held at Essen, in Germany, to consider the "criticnl position which has arisen owing to the scarcity of the r-nilable strain on the German corn mar; :>ts." The German papers state that the price of wheat has risen since the la«t prices were published from 2fi() to 310 marks, and that of rye from 220 to 250 marks.

Regarding copper and even iron, the Oermans have adopted a shrewd 'plan whereby they can' still do trade with the Dutch and neutral nations without depleting the'inetal supply in their own country. A Dutch ' firm has just been informed that the machinery they have ordered is waiting at the Dutch frontier, and will be sent over as soon n.s the firm supplies in old material quantities of metal equivalent to those used H the manufacture of the machinery. "FIVE O'CLOCK TEA."

The Germans have compromised regarding the five o'clock tea habit, which they borrowed from England. Like other Continental nations, they kept the English name for the afternoon beveragedrinking, but it has now been solemnly decided that, though the habit may still be retained, notwithstanding the source of its origin, it is in future to be known as "Funfuhrtee."