This operation requires a certain degree of heat to be made slowly and gradually : it is essential to accelerate or to stop the fermentation, according to the season of the year, to make it produce its effects about in the same time summer or winter ; for that purpose the dough ought to be put in baskets covered, with linen or flannel, in a warm or cold place, according to the season ; fire must be put in the oven, as the necessary time to heat it, is much about that required for the fermentation to come to its point, or for the bread to have taken what is called, its due preparation.
I am sure, this is an eloquent piece, filled with fine hard words, which I have got with hard labour in the dictionary. I could have delivered this fine method, as a physician does his pills, perhaps also, some people will think me a fool not to have done it ; every body has his way of seeing things : as for me, had I discovered a marvellous receipt to cure the plague, the ague, and even the Ministerial or Antiministerial fever, I would think it my duty, to give it to the public as generously.
I perceive after all, that I have no great difficulty in writing English. I regret now, that my promenade is in French, but since I have begun I must continue, and come back to the wild Conorama, where I think this dissertation is placed with more propriety than at London, where likely John Bull, would have scorned and d― ―d my labour.
Je n’ai de ma vie été dans la maison d’un homme riche qui parut se soucier si peu des choses de ce monde que le colonel Martin. [...] c’est un homme qui a les
