The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 4H. G. Bohn, 1856 - 544 pages |
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... mixed with other kinds , the Cyprian wheat and the Alexandrian , for example ; which , if used by themselves , will yield no more than twenty pounds to the modius . The wheat of Cyprus is swarthy , and produces a dark bread ; for which ...
... mixed with other kinds , the Cyprian wheat and the Alexandrian , for example ; which , if used by themselves , will yield no more than twenty pounds to the modius . The wheat of Cyprus is swarthy , and produces a dark bread ; for which ...
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... mixed with chalk , it is increased in weight . The proper proportion for the yield of Campanian wheat to the modius of grain is four sextarii of what is known as bolted flour ; but when it is used in the rough and has not been bolted ...
... mixed with chalk , it is increased in weight . The proper proportion for the yield of Campanian wheat to the modius of grain is four sextarii of what is known as bolted flour ; but when it is used in the rough and has not been bolted ...
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... mixed up with the meal ; and it is generally thought that this is the best method of making bread . The Greeks have established a rule that for a modius of meal eight ounces of leaven is enough , These kinds of leaven , however , can ...
... mixed up with the meal ; and it is generally thought that this is the best method of making bread . The Greeks have established a rule that for a modius of meal eight ounces of leaven is enough , These kinds of leaven , however , can ...
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... mixed with honey . CHAP . 28. - WHEN BAKERS WERE FIRST INTRODUCED At Rome . There were no bakers at Rome until 32 the war with King Perseus , more than five hundred and eighty years after the building of the City . The ancient Romans ...
... mixed with honey . CHAP . 28. - WHEN BAKERS WERE FIRST INTRODUCED At Rome . There were no bakers at Rome until 32 the war with King Perseus , more than five hundred and eighty years after the building of the City . The ancient Romans ...
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... mixed with the meal , which , upon becoming well incorporated with it , adds very materially to both the whiteness and the shortness 42 of the mixture . This chalk is found between Puteoli and Neapolis , upon a hill called Leucogæum ...
... mixed with the meal , which , upon becoming well incorporated with it , adds very materially to both the whiteness and the shortness 42 of the mixture . This chalk is found between Puteoli and Neapolis , upon a hill called Leucogæum ...
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