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Show Very Old Hread. A German who visited Pompeii writes as follows concerning the bread discovered discov-ered there: "In one room are shown in well closed glass cases, side hy side with some precious objects, the oldest bread, which was found in an oven of which more by and by burnt, of course. This bread is round and has four cuts, and may have weighed when fresh about three or four pounds. To this day bread like this is baked in Naples and the neighborhood, neigh-borhood, a proof of how little advanced the baker's trade is in the south of Italy Our guide assured me that some of this bread had been sold to foreign museums for enormous sums of money, aud that beforo me would not be sold at all, no matter what was the price offered. Having Hav-ing seen this bread, I was curious to see the own iu which it had been baked and found. Alter a most interesting tour through the streets of Pompeii, we found ourselves suddenly before the house of tho Pompeiian baker. uiJ IHO WliCl'tUT, WUlCll IO tl square, open hall, or rather yard, which in the better class of houses, contains a fountain and water basiu. Into this yard the doors from al! tho rooms open. The streets serve as drains for the houses as well as the streets. Greut blocks of stone serve us stepping stones to pass from ono side of the street to the other Witliin the house was also placed the baking room, and the oven was built of baslatic stones, which were still iu good preservation. This oven was very much like those which we see in country bakeries baker-ies of tlm present day. Iu the same i room,-a little away from tho oven, stood also a corn mill, of dark gray stones similar to our old sugar mills There was a hole in the upper stone, with a bar to pass through, which slaves oi donkeys had to turn around." Confectioners' Confec-tioners' Journal. ! |