Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1892 — Pastry Flour. [ARTICLE]

Pastry Flour.

We hoar a great deal about pastry flour, and one writer, who claims to be an authority on matters connected with cooking, declares that “pastry made from ordinary flour is as indigestible as wrought-iron nails.” It is a question that might interest a large number of people what our forefathers and foremothers did when they ate pastry made of ordinary wheat flour, which was used for generations—long, indeed, before such a thing as pastry flour was ever heard of. They seem to have lived to a g od.old age—many of them at least did—and flourished wonderfully well, even though they ate pit s and cokes made from what this writer calls indigestible stuff. It seems to be a fad of some of these nineteenth century people to declare that standard articles and dishes of the country all wrong, if notabsolute abominations. If some of these people would use a little more common sense In some of their distributes the general public would have much more respect for what they say.—New York Ledger.