Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allied prisoners of war at camps in Yokohama and Shishagawa were visited last week by a Tokyo representative of the Red Cross. Conditions: "Comparatively satisfactory." Rations: chiefly rice, with some bread, vegetables and fish. Health: some prisoners were suffering from tropical diseases; "medical treatment is handicapped by a lack of medicaments...
Veronika lit her improvised lamp-a cup of kerosene with a twisted thread for a wick-and made breakfast: water-thin gruel, black bread and brick tea brewed on the pechka. When it was ready she woke 16-year-old Grusha, fed her and, with an endearing Nichevo, sent her off to work in a war plant. Eight-year-old Fanya tied her ragged valenkis on her feet and went off to school. "Nichevo, Mama, I am not very hungry," she said...
...another corner of the room, smaller mixers five and six feet high whirl wire beaters the size of a man's head in bowls of frosting or small lots of dough. All about the room stand frames filled with trays of bread, pies, and a thousand different kinds of cookies...
Once that the dough for bread has been prepared it is removed to the "profing room" where it sits in great tubs to rise. Steam jets keep the air of the room warm and moist for the difficult and delicate process. Leaves are prepared for the even either by rough shaping as in the case of French bread or by placing in pans; rolls are cut to size on a special machine...
...jets, and when they are opened, the narrow tile inner ovens are incandescant with heat. "Peel poles" 12 to 14 feet in length with wooden paddles on one end are the agents for placing leaves in and removing them from the ovens. In the baking of French bread the crowning touch is the use of steam jets on the hot loaves to produce a perfect crust...