Domestic Tests for Food Adulterations

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Bread is adulterated with sulphate of copper, and alum, and other substances which cost less than wheat flour. The most easily applied process of detecting sulphate of copper and alum in bread, is that described by M...