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Bread Making (Some form is more widely used)

Bread in some form is more widely used than any other food except milk. In some sections of the world, bread constitutes almost the sole article of diet and if made from flour rich in gluten forms a very well balanced meal.

A description of the various breads of different countries would make an interesting study: the tortilla, a thin, unleavened cake of coarsely ground corn, baked on a heated iron plate by the Mexican Indian; the rice flour biscuit of Japan; the fineflavored loaf made from hand-ground wheat in Palestine; the hoe cake of the southern Negro; the schwartz-brod of the German peasant, etc. The average person, however, in speaking of bread means the golden brown, yeast-leavened loaf of our modern bakeries.