2. Value of Bread?
Bread is a staple food prepared by cooking a
dough of a few inexpensive ingredients - flour
and water and often additional ingredients.
But the value of bread can be influenced by how
you perceive the bread.
6. Values Associate with Bread
Medicinal Value
Breads played an important role for medicinal use. In the 19th century German immigrants used special
bread recipes for all kinds of maladies, especially stomach and digestive problems. Today these recipes
have been all but forgotten.
Breadwater for sick people.
Good black bread will be sliced, toasted and soaked in boiling water. Add lemon slices-remove all seeds
-, pour through a sieve and sweeten. If a fever is present, only use lemon juice.
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Penicillin G
Alexander Fleming was the first to suggest that the bread mold, Penicillium, must secrete an
antibacterial substance, and the first to concentrate the active substance which he named penicillin, but
he was not the first to use its properties in medicine. Others involved in the mass production of
penicillin include Ernst Chain, Howard Florey and Norman Heatley.
7. Values Associate with Bread
Prisoners in the 1800’s
probably valued bread
differently, as living on
bread and water was
used as a punishment for
“troublemakers”
8. “Bread is one of man's greatest discoveries. It is his basic food. But bread is not only food. It is one of the most
omnipresent symbols in the ethnology, cultures and religions. Bread is the symbol of hope, of honest toil, and
of general wealth and well-being. Rituals involving bread follow man through life, from his birth to his death. It
is mentioned not only in many toasts, sayings, games and oaths but also in curses and imprecations.”
--J. H. Macadam, Author
A COLLECTION OF PROVERBS
OF ALL NATIONS ON BREAD AND BAKING
http://www.breadculture.net/web/files/81/en/poslovice_o_hlebu.pdf
