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Bread Without Yeast
To every half-quartern of flour add one tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda and half a tea-spoonful of salt. Mix all together; then to the water, sufficient to make a dough, add half a tea-spoonful of muriatic acid. Set into the oven at once. This makes delicious and wholesome bread. Some use tartaric acid; in which case the bread will contain tartrate of soda, which, although not poisonous, is medicinal, being slightly purgative. On the other hand, muriatic acid neutralises soda just as well as tartaric acid, and the resulting compound is only common salt.