Show stale bread or fresh bread persons dont like stale bread so lo well as fresh though many consider it more digestible As a matter of df fact fresh bread to is just as digest able as stale if it be chewed as much but its very softness Bott nesa Is a temptation to chew it too tittle little hence it la Is swallowed without tho the admixture ot of enough saliva to digest its starch stale bread on tho the other hand Is dit dif acutt to swallow unless thoroughly showed hewed the difference between fresh ima and stale bread Is merely acrey a matter of water in bread as it cornea comes from tho aven oven the crust la is dry and crisp and the crumb Is moist and soft be cause nil all the water to Is in the crumb As hours or days pass pasa tile tho crust absorbs water from the crumb and becomes soft while the crumb becomes dry A loaf can be made fresh again by slightly moistening it and placing it for a few minutes in a liot hot oven the heat beat drives tho the water from rom the crust back into the crumb |