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Excerpt from Field, Forest and Farm: Things Interesting to Young Nature-Lovers, Including Some Matters of Moment to Gardeners and Fruit-Growers With his nephews as willing companions and eager listeners, Uncle Paul continued his walks and talks in the pleasant summer afternoons. "Bread is made of flour," he began, "and flour is wheat reduced to powder under the millstone. What an interesting mechanism that is, the flour-mill, driven by water, by the wind, sometimes by steam! What wearisome effort, what waste of time, if we had not this invention and were forced to do its work of grinding by sheer strength of arm! "I must tell you that in ancient times, for want of knowing how to grind wheat, people had to content themselves with crushing it between two stones after parching it a little over the fire. The coarse meal thus obtained was cooked in water to a sort of porridge and eaten with no further preparation. Bread was unknown. "Later the plan was hit upon of kneading the meal with water and of cooking the dough between two hot stones. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Plný název: Field, Forest and Farm
• Podnázev: Things Interesting to Young Nature-Lovers, Including Some Matters of Moment to Gardeners and Fruit-Growers (Classic Reprint)
• Autor: Jean Henri Fabre
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 362
• EAN: 9781330646144
• ISBN: 9781330646144
• ID: 09675351
• Nakladatelství: Forgotten Books
• Hmotnost: 485 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 19 mm
• Datum vydání: 08. August 2015

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