The Galaxy, June 1877: Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6.Various
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The Galaxy, June 1877: Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6.
Various
American literature -- Periodicals
_The Yeast._--Pressed yeast, which is now made in America, is
obtained by skimming the froth from mash while it is in active
fermentation. The yeast is repeatedly washed with cold water until
it settles pure and white in the water. It forms a tenacious mass
which is pressed in a bag. It will keep about eight days in summer,
and indefinitely if put on ice.
_The Flour._--Only a selected part of the flour is used in Vienna
for the manufacture of white bread and rolls, amounting to about
forty-five per cent. of the wheat. Precisely the same grades are
not produced in the American process of milling, but Dr. Horsford
thinks that good, fresh middlings flour will compare favorably with
the average Hungarian flour.
_The Milling._--A peculiar mode of milling wheat has grown up in
Austria and Hungary, which is almost the antipodes of the old and
crude methods of grinding. It is called "high milling," and
consists in cracking the wheat by successive operations down to the
required size. First the wheat is run through a coarse mill, which
takes off the beard at one end and the germ at the other. The
resulting powder is then sifted, to separate the grits from the
dross and flour, and the central part is again cracked, and the
products sifted. Some flour is produced in each of these steps, but
the best of the wheat kernel is still in the condition of grits,
and the bran and outer coat of the kernel having been separated by
the sifting, the pure grits are now cracked once more, and number
one flour is produced. All the other flour from these three
operations is purified from bran, mixed and ground, making number
two flour. In short, the essential characteristic of the Austrian
system of milling lies in a gradual process of reducing the wheat,
with careful separation of the products, or cleaning, at each step.
These products are quite numerous, as the following list shows:
_Class._ _Percentage._
A. { Lady groats.
B. 4.25 { Table groats, fine.
C. { Table groats, coarse.
0. { Extra imperial flour.
1. 5.53 Extra fine flour.
2. 5.76 Ordinary fine flour.
3. 5.51 _Extra roll or semmel flour._
4. 6.48 _Common roll or semmel flour._
5. 7.12 First pollen flour.
6. 13.30 Second pollen flour.
7. 11.85 First dust flour.
8. 9.95 Second dust flour.
9. 4.36 Brown pollen flour.
10. 6.32 Fort flour.
F. 8.94 Fine bran.
G. 6.87 Coarse bran.
H. 3.76 Chicken feed, loss, and dirt.
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