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Show "BREAD" OF STARVING RUSSIA Called "Lebeda," the Stuff Is Made of Leaves and Grass, Boiled and Dried. A peasant in the government of Samara Sa-mara (soviet Russia) told me of how they make lebeda bread. Here Is the story : "In our village they take some linden lin-den leaves and grass, chop them up to the size of a flea, and then boil the mixture. After the water has boiled, they squeeze It out and put the stuff again Into boiling water. Then they let the water run off through a sieve, and keep the mass until It is dry. After that they grind it fine and add one-third flour. "The bread you get is green in color and Indigestible. And when there la no flour, they just bake the ground mixture as It is. It does not taste very badly ; but after a man eats It for a while he swells up and gets 'worms In his stomach, and sooa after that he dies." Moscow Pravda. |