Bad Bread Quotes
“Hunger never saw bad bread.” Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Poor Richard's Almanac
“Baker's Bread is often made of musty, sour, or other bad flour, which is made to look light, and the bad taste removed by unheallthy drugs.” Catharine E. Beecher, 'Miss Beecher’s Domestic Receipt-Book' (1846)
“The North thinks it know how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it.” Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910) From an autobiographical sketch, 1898
“A woman should be ashamed to have poor bread, far more so, than to speak bad grammar, or to have a dress out of the fashion.” Catharine E. Beecher, 'Miss Beecher’s Domestic Receipt-Book' (1846)
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