Observations on such nutritive vegetables as may be substituted in the place of ordinary food, in times of scarcity.

  • Parmentier, Antoine Augustin, 1737-1813.
Date:
1783
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Credit: Observations on such nutritive vegetables as may be substituted in the place of ordinary food, in times of scarcity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    [ »* ] it Is only an addition to other meats: but this does not hold with refpedt to the brown meal of the fame grain ; it has not fo much vifcidity as the white; the mixture of Potatoes gives it more bulk. Jightnefs and quality. Next to wheat, rye is the mod valu- able grain ; both, mixed or feparate, afford, if well prepared, a very excellent bread, without the neceffity of any addition : but when they are fcarce, and brought from a great diftance, and very dear, the Potatoe, if there is a fuihcient dock, would make a faving of other grains, which fervethe mod indigent clafs. If it is important to fet bounds to the practice of ufing Potatoes to enlarge the i bulk of wheat and rye bread; it is proper to remark, that this practice is extremely wholefome for barley, buck-wheat, maize, oats, millet, &c. with which bread is pre- pared in different diftridts of the realm; for this bread, whether compofed of the meal