Word: malts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...increase in the alcohol yield of grains can be had by using bread molds instead of the conventional malt* to convert starches to sugars, which are then fermented by yeasts. So reported Leland A. Underkofler, Ellis I. Fulmer and Lu Cheng Hao of Iowa State College, who point out that molds instead of malt were used long ago in the unscientific Orient. Grown on wheat bran, the molds are prepared in one-fifth the time required for malt. Their action yields 93 to 96% of the alcohol theoretically obtainable from corn, whereas malt yields only about 85%. Thus "the alcohol...
...Dunster's day college bills were not paid with money, but with various kinds of foodstuffs. These bills might be paid in wheat, malt, apples, rye, or butter. Cattle, on the hoof, such as cows, oxen, sheep, lambs, and steers, were acceptable; as were cattle slaughtered for meat
...make grass fit for human consumption, the chemists dried, bleached and ground the leaves of wheat, barley, oats and rye, produced a white powder with a slight malt flavor. The scientists ate this grass all winter, caught no colds, enjoyed excellent health. Three U. S. factories and one Canadian are now making powdered grass. Approximate cost...