A treatise on the art of baking : with a preliminary introduction, shewing the various productions of the different quarters of the globe -- observations on the present state of agriculture --the farmer and middleman -- strictures on the corn bill, &c. With a number of valuable receipts, original and selected for the baker and domestic circle / by John White.

  • White, John, active 1828.
Date:
1828
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Credit: A treatise on the art of baking : with a preliminary introduction, shewing the various productions of the different quarters of the globe -- observations on the present state of agriculture --the farmer and middleman -- strictures on the corn bill, &c. With a number of valuable receipts, original and selected for the baker and domestic circle / by John White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    XU business, will barely give him a decent subsistence, and nothing more. The distiller—the brewer— makes a fortune by the increase of drunkenness, he keeps his carriage, is a gentleman, and respect- ed by the greatest in the land; but the poor baker, as he has not the honour of being a manufacturer of slow poison, and as his labours tend more to the support of man in general than the emolument of the doctor, the undertaker, and the grave-digger in particular, is, perhaps properly enough, kept in the back ground. There may be public motives for this, I will not say, we know that there has been a cry lately, but no matter. Although the baker cannot now a-days reach to that height of respectability which wealth bestows, he has this consolation, that his labours are for the support, not the destruction, of the human race. He may be despised,—but his art is identified with the wel- fare of his species, and while these mushrooms shoot who gain the world by adding to the misery of it, look down upon him with contempt, he can reply, in derision of their foolish boasting. Nor purse nor station makes a mighty man. Almost every art of lateyears has been improved, the baking art excepted; and for what reason is this art still kept in its infancy ? It would appear, to a casual observer, that either the art is sus- ceptible of no improvement, or that the bakers are ignorant fools. But the fact of the matter is, that bakers themselves do not make any im- provement upon their own art, as both law and