Bread - Early works to 1800
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Scarcity of bread . A plan for reducing the high price of this article, in a letter addressed by William Frend, to William Devaynes, Esq. Chairman of the Meeting at the London Tavern July 14, to consider of the present high price of Provisions.
William FrendDate: [1795]- E-books
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The great advantage of eating pure and genuine bread, comprehending the heart of the wheat , With all its flour. Shewing how it may contribute to the health and profit of the people and the increase of the quantity of bread, preserving infants from the grave, by destroying the use of allum, and the ingredients to whiten our present wheaten bread: proposing to end the contest amicably, by allowing, upon proper authority, a farthing on a quartern loaf more than seems to be provided for by the present act, with respect to the proportion of 7d. for the standard, and 8d. for the wheaten bread. Second edition, with additions. By Jonas Hanway, Esq.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- E-books
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A charitable morsel of unleavened bread , for the author of a letter to The Rev. William Romaine; entitled, Gideon's cake of barley meal: being a reply to that pamphlet.
Parker, David, fl. 1793.Date: 1793- E-books
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A letter on occasion of the public enquiry concerning the most fit and proper bread to be assized for general use: Shewing the Difficulty of executing the Act of the 31st Geo. II. in a beneficial manner to the Poor; the constant Usage and Custom with regard to Bread for many Centuries; the folly of eating Bread known to be made white by Art and Adulteration, and the great Advantages of eating pure Bread made of all the Flour, including the Heart of the Wheat, as the most salutary, agreeable and nutritive Aliment. Recommended as an Object of a very serious and important Nature. By an advocate for public welfare
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- E-books
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An appeal to a humane public for the poorer millers and bakers, respecting the high price of bread and the injury sustained by them erom [sic] the establishment of the London Flour, Meal & Bread Company. ... By an attentive observer.
Attentive observerDate: [1800?]