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Unfermented Bread
Fermented bread is sometimes considered unwholesome. Those who are of this opinion may make their bread as follows. Mix one ounce of bicarbonate of soda with eight pounds of flour. Stir one ounce of hydrochloric acid with four pints of warm water. Stir the liquor into the flour briskly, with a wooden spoon, till the ingredients are thoroughly blended; divide the dough into loaves, and bake these immediately in a brisk oven. It will need to bake as long as bread usually does.