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Otago Witness, Issue 3251, 5 July 1916, Page 28

Both eyes should be kept open when looking through a toleeeope. Although the Germans are making war bread out of ail kinds of materials, tVy will have to go i lonpr way before they invent nn entirely new kind of bread. Beans, peas, maize, and other substances have been mixed with wheat or rye i - the past. ".Mashed potatoes, mixed with wheal, o<* maize flour, were uecd by poor people en the Continent years before the war broke out. Rice flour makes yellow bread, while the chefstnut bread that forms the chief food of the Corsican mountaineers ; s very digestible, agreeable to {■.•'.::tr. and keeps fresh more than a fortnight. Bread has been made from acorns, especially by thi- peasants of France. Moss*>s>, dried and powdered, are still used for bread by Norwegians, and other substances have been utilised.