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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    shop ; as for the price, the baker sells his bread cheaper than any private family can bake it. The baking art is at present a degraded one in the public opinion, and I may not live to see it raised from its degraded state ; yet I hope that my labours have not been in vain, that they will ulti- mately lead to it. It is a scientific art; as a science it should be learned. ‘The Author is a baker, an enthusiast in the art: this may be called mad- ness! Be itso, I wish the distemper to be uni- versal among my brethren,—none but an enthu- siast, as he is termed, can make improvements, or rise to perfection in the art. ‘The mere plodder may be a living machine, he may perform his work with mechanical precision ; but he does not improve, he has no pleasure in the work of his hands. He takes to his daily labour as to a daily task, the first hour tires him, the day drags heavily on, he wishes for the hour of rest, that he may retire to the ale-house, or take a useless sleep in his arm chair. ‘Thus his days pass on in a joyless employment; far otherwise is it with him that the world calls an enthusiast,—every day brings him new enjoyment, his work is a pleasure, and, when the day is finished, the recollection of the improve- ments he has made are pleasant to the soul, and he passes his hours of relaxation in the anticipa- tion of greater improvements to-morrow. The man who writes only for praise, does not deserve to be praised ; but were praise withheld, the world would go to ruin. Dear to the soul of