COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Books Internet Archive
Record
Author:
Great Britain. Board of Agriculture.
Author (contributor):
Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835.
Title:
Account of the experiments tried by the Board of Agriculture, in the composition of various sorts of bread, anno 1795.
Publisher:
and John Archer Dublin; William Creech Edinburgh; Cadell and Davis Strand; J Sewell Cornhill; And sold by Messrs Robinson Paternoster-Row; Printed for G Nicol Pall-Mall bookseller to His Majesty and to the Board of Agriculture
Begin Publication Date:
1795
MMS Id (Alma identifier):
991034730999706966
Permanent Call Number:
1-SIZE DB .G7881 1795 5
Statistics Note 1 (Accession Number):
STAT_NOTE_1_ACCESSION #: 18-272
Subjects:
Bread.
Subjects:
Cooking (Rice)
Subjects:
Rye.
Subjects:
Gluten-free foods.
Subjects:
Imprint 1795.
Subjects:
Baking.
Subjects:
Corn bread.
Subjects:
Cooking (Barley)
Subjects:
Cooking (Beans)
Subjects:
Cooking (Buckwheat)
Subjects:
Cooking (Corn)
Subjects:
Cooking (Oats)
Subjects:
Cooking (Potatoes)
General Note:
Dated and signed on p. 34: Highworth, December 25, 1795. Wm. Chamberlein. To Sir John Sinclair, bart. president of the Board of Agriculture.; This is a report made by the British Board of Agriculture on the different types of bread being made in Britain and around the world. The intent of the report was to show that there are nutritive and edible substitutes to using wheat in bread-making. The different substances used were oats, barley, potatoes, rice, rye, Indian corn, buckwheat, beans, and pease. Several sections refer to the breads eaten in America, especially with the use of Indian Corn and Buckwheat. Includes the different types of corn cultivated in America, how corn makes up nearly the entire diet of the laboring class of people in America; and the way in which corn is prepared in America.; Signatures: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) A-D⁴ (B4 verso blank) E² (-E2); The two folded plates depict an apparatus for roasting potatoes and "Mr. Walker's predatory mill"
Local Note:
John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: wanting half-title leaf.; John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in later speckled calf with marbled boards.; John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.