A BREAD REFORM LEAGUE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 700, 23 February 1881, Page 2

A BREAD REFORM LEAGUE.

The special Town Hall, Kingston, was recently filled by an audience interested in a novel Bread Reform League, the principles of which were to be expounded by Miss M. Yates, a member of thp Ladies' Sanitary Association, Miss Yates, who was warmly received, dwelt upon the necessity of a reform in our bread-making, urging that by the present prevailing system of making bread from " fiue flour" only, the flesh-forming, the heat-produc-ing, and bone-forming materials of wheat wero rejected, and bread was made chiefly of the starchy constituents of the grain, with the result of lessening thp valpe, ai| food, of the bread cousutnpd, and lessening the strength of the people, who consequent on the absence of the elements of wheat in bread, had to have recourse to increased consumption of meat, The wpt of proper nourishment in bread Ipfj people to seek for ?ti|pulpnts in alcohol; fflr the starchy substance, while supplying foodj djd not give nutrimept, and the indyiduals thus fed craved for something more, She stated t|iat properly made wheaten bread or wheat meal bread had a good deal more nourishment than the quantity of meal which could be bought for the same money, and those persons who consumed only bread' made of fine white flour, gave employment to the chemists who sold them under scientific names the constituents missing from the bread thus made! The lecturer urged that imfermented bread, or lour foods made with ijjinetals under the name of " baking ponders," subjected those wto ate them to unlooked-for dangers, and stating that the Bread Reform League, desiring to give the people the "staff of life" instead of the broken reed upon which they depended when consuming tho starchy' elements only of grain, had offered to all bakers the privilege of using tlie improyed system of flour preparation on the conditjon that the bread ps Bold at tlje aaijie priqe as "thp other brpai Samples of wheat-meal bread produce)! by bakers in different parts in London were exhibited, and were so greatly appreciated that they quickly disappeared.