Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1885 — The Bread of Persia. [ARTICLE]

The Bread of Persia.

“Persian bread,” writes our correspondent now in Afghanistan, “is a very peculiar production; it is made in large flaps, in some cases about a yard long. If ever the Persians reach the advanced state of morning newspapers they might have them printed on their bread, so that they could read the news while they eat, and swallow everything literally. On seeihg these large flaps I have often thought that they must resemble the blacksmith’s leather apron, which was the old standard of Persia; if the bread is not made after that model they have managed to produce an article very like it, not only in size but in color and toughness at the same time. We have had now nearly two months’ experience of this material, and it was a delight on coming here tp get at our breakfast the first morning bread that was made on a somewhat later model than an old leather apron. The chances of finding a change in this detail of our daily life on reaching the Indian camp had often been discussed on the way, when we were hard at work trying to masticate pieces of the leather kind. One of our party Said he knew Major Bind, the commissariat officer of the other camp, and that he was not a man likely to Come away without the. means of baking good bread, but we had been so long used to that Persian kind that these assurances did not in - spire much hope. There had been doubts, but these were dispelled at our first breakfast. Butter actually appeared on the table with the bread. I fear for the moment we either forgot or thought lightly of the splendid pillaus in the breakfast prepared for us by the Governor of Khorassan’s cook at Meshed, or the many delicacies Ali Mardan treated us with at Sarakhs. One man while munching a great mouthful of bread and butter—the amount in his mouth slightly interfered with his articulation—but we made out that he meant to say it was almost as good as arriving at Dover. Of course he meant to add that it was after having been a long time in the East away from England, but at that instant he had not a moment to spare, and left the sentence in its incomplete form as he re recorded.”— London Daily News.

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