Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1892 — Bread from Blood. [ARTICLE]

Bread from Blood.

Dr. Makarof has been making experiments in Russia with the blood of animals in the manufacture of bread. He made a dough composed of two and a half parts of rye meal and one and a quarter of blood. This he baked, and so produced a very good loaf of bread, which was not only fit to eat but also contained much more nourishment than ordinary rye or wheaten loaves. Dr. Makarof considers that some regulations should be issued to people who slaughter animals, requesting them to collect blood, which has hitherto been wasted, and send it to certain specified centers, where it could be made into bread and distributed to the peasantry in the grain, so that they are obliged to grind it down, and as in most of the districts there has been a great dearth of fuel, the baking of the bread has been a great difficulty, which in some cases' has proven insurmountable.