Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1893 — It Is Good Bread. [ARTICLE]

It Is Good Bread.

A good deal has been said shout the wretched “ hungerbrod ’’ on whici the starving Russian peasants were led, and a great deal of sympathy has been bestowed upon them for having to eat the stuff. This, it seems, has been largely wasted. Professor Virchow has been making an analysis of this bread, and comparing it with the »rye bread commonly eaten by the lower classes of Germany, and he says that the “hungcrbrod ” is by far the more nutritious artjticle. It contains 11.79 per cent, of albumen, and 3.79 of fat, while the rye bread baked in Berlin has but 3.04 per cent, of albumen and 0.48 per cent, of fat. It appears that the Russian peasants ought not to starve if they can get enough “ hungerbrod ” to satisfy tXat* hunger— [New Orleans Picayune.