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Title: The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: McGovern, John. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Chicago, Union pub. house
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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gluten, as sold on the market? It is the residue of corn after the germs and the starch havegone from it. It is pressed into wet cakes, dried, powdered,and sold for cattle feed at a good price. It is a gray or yellow-ish coarse meal or flour. Is Rye also used for bread ? Yes, more and more, as Europeans have immigrated toAmerica. Rye forms the great crop of Russia, over 700,000,000bushels being harvested in a year. The rye loaf is very denseand damp. It is sweet and does not grow stale as quickly aswheat bread. For this reason it is prized by German saloon-keepers, and others who deal in free lunches. Many persons offoreign birth like aromatic seeds in the rye loaf. Rye growstaller than wheat, and the farmer often goes through his fieldbefore harvest, cutting off the tall heads, that ripen a little laterthan the wheat. The kernel is long, slim and dark. It doesnot present that edible appearance which is characteristic of thewheat berry. A large part of the American crop is used in the
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BREAD, ETC. 119 distillation of whiskey, and this brand of liquor is held in highesteem by druggists. Is any other grain largely eaten in America by all classes ofpeople ? Oat-meal, or rolled oats, or prepared oats may be considereda growing staple breakfast food—at least in all large cities.The kernel has been divested of its husk and partly broken. Itis put in water and boiled as glue is boiled, with one vesselinside another, the outer vessel containing boiling water. Thepaste thus prepared, is eaten with sugar and milk or cream.Children readily use this food, and doctors have favored it. InScotland, oat cakes are eaten very generally. What is Rice ? The seed or grain of a grasscalled Oryza sativa—possi-bly the wheat of the ancients.It forms the chief article offood for one - third of thehuman race, and is fermentedinto the leading liquor—saki(sah-kee)—of Japan and thearrack and shou-choo of theEast. Where is it grown ? Rice is raised (as we raisewheat and corn) in China, Fi

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