Fruits, Cereals, and Vegetables
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Zwieback
Zwieback, or twice-baked bread, is one of the most easily digested
and most palatable of foods. Let ordinary raised bread be cut in slices
and dried in a warm oven till the last trace of moisture disappears.
Then let it be browned slightly all the way through. In a dry place this
bread can be kept much longer than ordinary bread, and if reheated
before using, it will be as fresh as when new.
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Zwieback Good for the Evening Meal—273
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Zwieback in diet of E. G. White—Appendix 1:22
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Old Bread Preferable to Fresh
497. Bread which is two or three days old is more healthful than
new bread. Bread dried in the oven is one of the most wholesome
articles of diet.—
Letter 142, 1900
The Evils of Sour Bread
498. We frequently find graham bread heavy, sour, and but partially
baked. This is for want of interest to learn, and care to perform the
important duty of cook. Sometimes we find gem cakes, or soft biscuit,
dried, not baked, and other things after the same order. And then cooks
will tell you they can do very well in the old style of cooking, but to
tell the truth, their families do not like graham bread; that they would
starve to live in this way.
I have said to myself, I do not wonder at it. It is your manner of
preparing food that makes it so unpalatable. To eat such food would
certainly give one the dyspepsia. These poor cooks, and those who
have to eat their food, will gravely tell you that the health reform does
not agree with them.
The stomach has not power to convert poor, heavy, sour bread into
good food; but this poor bread will convert a healthy stomach into a
diseased one. Those who eat such food know that they are failing in
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strength. Is there not a cause? Some of these persons call themselves
health reformers, but they are not. They do not know how to cook.
They prepare cakes, potatoes, and graham bread, but there is the same
round, with scarcely a variation, and the system is not strengthened.
They seem to think the time wasted which is devoted to obtaining a
thorough experience in the preparation of healthful, palatable food....