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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 cf how they make lebeia 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 boll tho 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 dry.-After that they grind it fine and ad cne-thlrd flour. "The bread you get Is green In color and Indigestible. And when there Is1' no flour, they just bake the ground1 mixture as It Is. It does not taste very badly ; but after a man eats It for a while he swells up and geti worms In his stomach, and soon after that he dies." Moscow Pravda. |