Excerpt from The Home-Keeping Book Households keep within a weekly allowance for each person of one and a half pounds of flour and all other wheat products. Public eating places keep within the same allowance for every twenty-one meals served; not more than two ounces of Wheat products, flour included, to be served to a guest at any one meal. Retail purchases of flour to be limited in quantity and to be accompanied by at least equal weight of other cereals. Bakers to keep within 70 per cent.' of flour formerly used; three-quarter pound loaves to go as far as the pound loaf usually does. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.