14 MAY 1927, Page 17

EAT ENGLISH BREAD

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—It may interest some of your readers to hear that many years ago, long before the Daily Mail started its " Standard Bread," some of us formed a small company entitled " National Standard Bread Co.," and actually made (and sold) at Ton- bridge really pure bread made entirely of English wheat ground in a stone mill in one room and made into bread in another, so that the flour was actually fresh and free from the pollution that is almost inevitable when carted about as it is in this country.

We had many flattering testimonials as to the sweet " nutty " flavour of our bread and one curious complaint, I remember, that it was " too satisfying ! " People have, unfortunately, learnt to prefer whiteness to goodness, though, as a well- known baker once said to me, " You might go on eating such bread till you died of starvation."—I am, Sir, &c., J. B. PEsinstGrost. Ewell Park, Ewell.