Oh, baking bread with wood scrapings was an old trick in misgrowth times. But re weird additives, I've heard that the French law that forbids a baguette from containing anything but flour, water, salt and yeast was instituted because bakers threw in straw, plaster and who-knows-what in the dough...
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Date: 2011-09-22 09:11 pm (UTC)