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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 4 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley 2 0 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 2 0 Browse Search
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904 2 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 15, 1862., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 1 1 Browse Search
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Bread. A mixture of flour and water, baked to the extent of suppressing its clamminess. In the Old Testament we find that bread-making was a duty performed by the mistress of the family, — Sarah; by one of the daughter, — the muchabused Tamar; by servants, — as those captives referred to by Samuel, who are prospectively made to serve as confectionaries, cooks, and bakers ; by an officer of the household, — Pharaoh's servant, the chief baker; by tradesmen, — as the bakers referred to by Hosea. The Israelites ate leavened bread except on peculiar occasions. The Bedouin of the present day, as his ancestors did, cooks his unleavened bread in the embers, generally between layers of dung. We are not destitute of the same fuel on the Western plains, but delicately term it bois de vache, or, more squarely, buffalo-chips. When the Arab bakes a pasty bread on a pan or griddle, he calls it a flita. Without intending to talk Arabic, we do the same sometimes. The Egyptian like the