Excerpt from The Whys of CookingWhen a young housekeeper realizes that in making yeast bread she is dealing with actual plants that must thrive and grow if her bread is to be good, she will understand why warm rather than scalding liquid must be mixed with her yeast, and henceforth she is likely to care for her miniature garden with intelligent forethought.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.