A treatise on the art of baking, with a preliminary introduction, shewing the various productions... with a number of valuable receipts, original and selected for the baker and domestic circle / by John White.

  • White, John.
Date:
1828
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the art of baking, with a preliminary introduction, shewing the various productions... with a number of valuable receipts, original and selected for the baker and domestic circle / by John White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    theirs. I grant that they have polished the sur- face of it, but in taking the rust away, they have made so many gaps in the building, that it has be- come necessary to employ a little paint to conceal all defects. Gaudy colours may please the eye, but then, when used, they should be properly ap- plied, and uot employed to the daubing of other people’s coats. In plain language, the scientific man’s researches has done more harm than good to the baker ; he has given him no directions that he can follow, and all that he has said is merely the echo of vulgar report, that tends only to the traducing of the baker’s character. I blame no person for revealing what he knows of any art, but certainly that revelation should be in accordance to truth, and where nothing is known it would be a great mark of wisdom to say nothing. How many statements has proceeded from learned men relative to the bakers, and the means that he takes to adulterate his bread, not one of which has any foundation in truth. Iask, from whence these learned men obtained their information? If they answer, from a baker,—I say in return, that no baker either would or could say such things; and if it is said that the information is derived from common report, let me inform those gentlemen who are not acquainted with the matter already, that common report is often a common lie. Yet on this peradventure has the character of a most meritorious class of men been traduced; they have been made the authors of actions far more crimi-